En Or those who lament an obsolete, decaying national infrastructure but insist on the wage laws and absurd permitting requirements that make rebuilding impossibly slow and expensive. Or those bemoaning the massive, truly dangerous state of the government’s debt but are unwilling to advocate the far- reaching entitlement reforms without which no combination of policies can make much difference. Sincere, but not serious.
The global energy crisis is a wake-up call for our elites. Only last year, world leaders gathered in Glasgow for COP26 to celebrate their plans to rid the world of fossil-fuel energy. Yet now, as energy prices soar to unprecedented heights, these same leaders are scrambling to issue new drilling licences for oil, to tap new gas and to bring coal power stations back online. Is the penny starting to drop that humanity still needs fossil fuels? And will our green elites finally start to prioritise our energy needs over their climate goals?
On the one hand, they want to continue this anti-fossil-fuel and anti-human agenda. And on the other hand, they want to be popular, in part because they need to be popular in order to impose that agenda. But the problem is, in practice, nobody likes the results of the agenda.
