Reducing Energy Options Doesn’t Work – Just Ask Europe

We spotted a must-read article from Scott Tinker, the director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin. In his column, Tinker points out the failure of Europe's energy policies for the past quarter century--policies that shut down energy options like nuclear, coal, and natural gas, believing that wind and solar would take their place. It hasn't worked. The brilliance of Tinker's column is in comparing what's happening in states like California and New York to what happened in Europe. Those two states (among others) are following in the footsteps of Europe, doing the same things--eliminating energy choice before alternatives can handle the load. And we are seeing the same identical results in CA and NY that we see in Europe--energy scarcity and skyrocketing energy prices.

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