View this email in your browser
4/20/2021

Energy Realism this past week focused on the need for affordable and reliable energy and potential market reforms in Texas especially. 

Energy poverty might just be the most ignored calamity of them all. Jude Clemente believes that the U.S. has a moral obligation to supply an overwhelmingly poor world with natural gas, a cleaner energy source that has become our own go-to fuel. The reality is that an insistence on “only renewables” will only serve to “keep poor people poor.” Even here in the U.S., wind power, for instance, is overly expensive and unreliable. Daniel Turner wants big ideas to help his hometown of New York City but claims that wind power is no solution for the problems faced. Simply put, wind is never as cost effective and the job producer that advocates claim. 

Frank Lasee demands a fact-based discussion of what is best for our country, the environment, and our wallets. We seem obsessed with a green virtue signaling that is incredibly expensive and a complete waste of taxpayers’ dollars. We have seen such grift in Texas with huge subsidies to force unreliable wind power onto the grid. Brent Bennett says that the Texas legislature should create clear guidelines for statewide electric reliability and ensure that blackouts do not become the norm. Targeted and efficient market reforms can begin to solve this problem if legislators and the Public Utility Commission are willing to ask the hard questions about Winter Storm Uri – and learn the proper lessons from it. 

In the News

Firms Line Up to Crush Green Transparency

Tim Quinson, Bloomberg

PA Town Saved by Fracking Fears Biden Will Kill Its Prosperity

Salena Zito, NY Post

Statement on the Staff ESG Risk Alert

Hester M. Peirce, SEC

Pete Buttigieg Mocked for Claiming 'Racism Is Built Into US Highways'

Holden Walter-Warner, Daily Mail

Tesla Is Burning Its Solar Roof Customers With a Huge Price Increase

Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge

SEC’s Task for ESG: Finding a Standard Setter

Bloomberg Tax

Green Regs Should Not Be One Size Fits All

Ellen R. Wald, The Hill

Texas House Weighs Anti-Renewable Energy Bills

Morgan O'Hanlon, Dallas News

What Will We Get for a Multitrillion-Dollar Energy Policy?

Peter Z. Grossman, The Hill

The Green New Deal, in Disguise

The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal

Review of Responsible Funds: 'Potentially Misleading' Claims

Reuters

Business Case for Sustainable Finance Policy

Fiona Reynolds, The Hill

Yes, Overreliance On Wind, Solar Helped Feed Texas’s Power Outages

Chuck DeVore, The Federalist

Top Pension Fund Treads Water as ESG Picks Up Pace

Shoko Oda, Bloomberg

Solar Energy Supply Chain Depends on Region Where China Is Accused of Genocide

Phred Dvorak, Matthew Dalton, The Wall Street Journal

Multimedia

'The Five' Mock John Kerry Lecturing on Climate Change While Flying on Jet

Fox News

Biden wants companies to report on how much they pollute; 'The Five' react.

What Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage?

Practical Engineering

When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and fingerpointing can make it difficult to understand what really happened. This video provides a summary of the facts of ...

Two Minutes With Charif Souki on Global LNG Market Updates

Tellurian Inc.

Supported by fundamentals, our commercial efforts are going extremely well. The demand situation continues to increase, so the outlook for natural gas on a global basis, and for Amer...

ESG Investing - (Underperformance Yet MORE Fees!)

Heritage Wealth Planning

Let's look at ESG investing. Not all that glitters is gold. 

What Does 'ESG Friendly' Really Mean?

Financial Times

Is ESG - environmental, social, governance - the future of ethical investing? ESG-focused indices advanced 40 per cent in 2019-20. But what counts as ESG is far from straightforward,...

Having trouble viewing this email? | [Unsubscribe] | Update Subscription Preferences 

You receiving this email because your address is in the Energy Realism list from https://www.realclearpublicaffairs.com/.

Copyright © 2021 RealClearHoldings, All rights reserved.
RealClearHoldings
666 Dundee Road
Bldg. 600
Northbrook, IL 60062