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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: miraje who wrote (1377928)10/26/2022 6:18:26 PM
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Miraje, this part of the op-ed is worth repeating:

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When it comes to energy, we want five things at once that are incompatible — and Putin is onto us:

1. We want to decarbonize our economy as fast as we can to mitigate the very real dangers of climate change.

2. We want the cheapest possible gasoline and heating oil prices so we can drive our cars as fast and as much as we want — and never have to put on a sweater indoors or do anything to conserve energy.

3. We want to tell the petrodictators in Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to take a hike.

4. We want to be able to treat U.S. oil and gas companies as pariahs and dinosaurs that should pump us out of this current oil crisis and then go off in the woods and die and let solar and wind take over.

5. Oh, and we don’t want any new oil and gas pipelines or wind and solar transmission lines to spoil our backyards.

I understand why people want all five — now. I want all five! But they involve trade-offs, which too few of us want to acknowledge or debate. In an energy war like the one we’re in now, you need to be clear about your goals and priorities. As a country, and as a Western alliance, we have no ladder of priorities on energy, just competing aspirations and magical thinking that we can have it all.

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And Thomas Friedman isn't the only lefty who's saying this. Fareed Zakaria over at CNN is saying this as well.

Our energy policy is based on wishful thinking. Heck, we even think we can move the entire nation toward electric vehicles just by mandate.

We're now paying for our folly big time.

Tenchusatsu
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