This week, Energy Realism focused on restrictive, impractical, and expensive energy policies that could be implemented with Joe Biden declared the winner in the presidential race. Jason Isaac argues that climate plans promulgated by leading Democrats like Biden and Kamala Harris are more about controlling choice than improving the environment. Steve Milloy pushes back on the Democrats’ anti-fossil fuel talk. Oil will remain indispensable, he observes; there are no battery-powered 747s, for example, and there never will be. As Daniel Turner suggests, energy under the policies of a Biden administration could become three or four times as expensive, just as it has under similar policies in Europe. That explains why, as Hayden Ludwig and Kevin Mooney maintain, the Trump administration made the right call by exiting the Paris Agreement on climate. America deserves energy polices that put our own manufacturing jobs, national security, and prosperity first. More broadly, Rupert Darwall points out how, thanks to the coronavirus, governments now know that they can impose draconian restrictions on their citizens – and how this knowledge will serve them well in their efforts to impose net-zero carbon mandates that will shrink individual choice and personal liberty. Darwall also argues that extreme climate policies that raise energy prices disproportionately hurt minority communities – especially Latinos and African-Americans – and other low-income groups. In the News Rupert Darwall, RealClearEnergy Rupert Darwall, RealClearEnergy Thomas Frank, Scientific American Yahoo Finance Hannah Sparks, New York Post Jared Whitley, Newsmax Katz et al., Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance Robert Bryce, Forbes Sarah Min, Chief Investment Officer Alice Ross, NZ Herald Alicia H. Munnell, MarketWatch Reuters Alex Kimani, Oil Price Financial Times Trish Kahle, Jacobin Yahoo Finance Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita and Dan Eberhart, Canary LLC CEO, discuss why Biden’s stance on energy could hurt him at the polls. CNBC Television Sankey Research's Paul Sankey gives his case for why Chevron and ExxonMobil should merge. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Guy Adami, Tim Seymour, Karen Finerman a... CNBC Television Ronald Cohen, Global Steering Group on Impact Investment chairman, often described as “the father of British venture capital,” joins ‘Closing Bell’ to talk about ESG and impact inves... |