"With a recession looming and high energy costs impacting consumers this winter, 2023 is poised to be a challenging year for American families and businesses. Congress can address these issues and protect Americans from future energy price shocks by implementing common-sense policies to accelerate energy innovation and bolster American economic competitiveness."
Ted Nordhaus and Adam Stein write in The Hill about nuclear power regulations. “Instead of moving forward with an ill-conceived rule to meet an arbitrary deadline, Congress and the NRC commissioners should instead insist that the NRC staff go back to the drawing board. There is no reason that a vastly simplified framework for licensing...
Mike Sommers writes in RealClearEnergy about the role that American energy can play in reducing emissions. “The good news is America has the natural gas and oil to be more energy secure, to power our economy and Americans’ daily lives, and to keep us on the path to a lower carbon future. The challenges are...
"An all-of-the-above green energy strategy is essential and means that much more nuclear power needs to happen, and quickly, for the world to stay anywhere close to a trajectory of net zero by 2050. This requires helping countries finance new projects."
Gas stove bans are burdensome to consumers and businesses alike for no meaningful climate benefit and for a dubious connection to asthma. While electric stoves and induction stoves certainly have their merits, individuals, not federal regulators, should decide what appliance they want to use.
Energy abundance and pro-growth policies are necessary to reduce emissions in the long term and improve prosperity across the globe.
"Rather than arbitrarily mandating a car or energy technology, it would be better to allow for the competition of innovation. Retracting current internal combustion bans and replacing them with technology-neutral, innovation-open strategies would be a better policy. Including the prospect that you can keep purchasing internal combustion cars."
"The fusion demonstration is a reminder not of what is inevitable but of what is possible. And it is not just fusion. The advance of wind and solar and battery technology remains a near miracle. The possibilities of advanced geothermal and hydrogen are thrilling. Smaller, modular nuclear reactors could make new miracles possible, like cars and planes that don’t need to be refueled or recharged. This is a world progressives, in particular, should want to hasten into existence. Clean, abundant energy is the foundation on which a more equal, just and humane world can be built."
"Energy and the environment will remain key policy issues — here and abroad — for the foreseeable future. But the appropriate policy response to the environmental consequences of more fossil fuel use should be to explore technologies such as carbon sequestration and methane capture, rather than passing bans on hydraulic fracturing, fighting new pipelines, or requiring new office buildings and homes to be all electric."
"That leaves the third explanation by the Times, the old staple of anti-market thinking: Competition leads to higher prices because of 'profits taken in by energy suppliers.' Based on reading the Times article, you might be surprised to learn that monopoly utilities also make profits. Indeed, utility rates are typically set to give the utility a set percentage of profit based on their past investments. This, needless to say, does not encourage utilities to find ways to lower costs."
