The Real Energy Transition Is Toward Natural Gas, Not Wind and Solar

The only thing holding back our boundless natural gas future is the government.

AP/Cliff Owen, file
Dominion Energy's Cove Point Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal at Lusby, Maryland in 2014. AP/Cliff Owen, file

Among the great mythologies of recent years, one stands out above the rest, is that the world is in a “great energy transition.” Actually, the world IS in a dramatic energy transition. Only it isn’t the one the left wants it to be.

Despite hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars thrown at wind and solar power, we get less than 10 percent of our energy from green sources. The needle really hasn’t moved at all over the past two decades. The more the government spends, the less we get for every taxpayer dollar thrown at it. That’s the very definition of a falling stock.

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