The hypocrisies of the anti-energy left

 Washington Examiner Editorial:

They claim to be science-based, but anti-fossil fuel campaigners are, at heart, ignorant and unserious. To understand how, just witness the recent spectacle put on by The North Face, the clothing company known for its puffy jackets.

Perhaps inspired by the Summer of Wokeness, the outfitter decided it would make a statement on the issue of climate change. With yet another tiresome act of vain virtue-signaling, The North Face snubbed one of its existing corporate customers, refusing for the first time to produce jackets bearing the company logo. The reason? Because this West Texas company is in the business of petroleum production.

Ah, but wait a minute — what are North Face jackets made of?

Surely, if you haven’t guessed it already, you will not be surprised when you hear that they (like two-thirds of all clothing sold today) are made from petroleum products. Thus, the geniuses in management at The North Face are effectively boycotting their own suppliers.

Brilliant.

It is not worth arguing whether the world has a lower-carbon or carbon-neutral future ahead of it. It certainly does, even without any central planning effort. The United States, without any grand plan or signed treaty, has seen its carbon emissions decline dramatically over the last 15 years. Fracking, by allowing natural gas to replace coal on a large scale, has already reduced U.S. greenhouse emissions more than all of the environmental activism in the history of man combined. And not only is carbon-free natural gas a proven concept, but renewable energy requires its assistance, given that wind and solar are by nature intermittent and gas can be turned up or down with great flexibility.

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By restricting the free flow of energy sources that currently exist and power the life of the nation, the radicals would harm everyone — especially the poor, who depend upon cheap energy to keep up their standard of living — in exchange for undetectably small, meaningless reductions to world carbon dioxide levels that will have no effect on world temperatures at all.

Their zealotry, depending on how much economic damage it does, might even impede the technological progress toward lower-carbon sources of energy.

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The anti-energy left does not comprehend how important fossil fuels are to their existence from clothing to food production and distribution.  The opponents of pipelines like those Biden is putting in charge of energy regulations will drive up the cost of energy for everyone while having a negligible impact on the environment.    

BTW, if the US was totally carbon-free it would not appreciably reduce the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.  These people are bent on a fools' errand.