Michael F Schundler
2 min readJul 11, 2022

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Keep in mind reduced exploration of domestic oil and gas won't impact climate change or C)2 emissions. It only increases oil and gas imports from countries with less controls over how much they pollute the earth extracting fossil fuels and generally poor human rights histories.

Biden's Green Energy policy is flawed because it goes after fossil fuel exploration, refining, and transporting rather than focus on making green energy more desireable by making it cheaper.

US policy can only impact US activity. But making "green energy" so cheap that other countries adapt it to save money... globalizes green energy. Instead of coercing people to switch, you would have to figure out how to ration it as demand would outstrip the supply of solar and wind energy installation capacity.

I converted my home to solar years ago. Living in southern California with year round abundant sunshine and a huge "roof footprint" doing nothing made it cheaper to produce electricity than the utility company charged to deliver electricity to my home... whether produced by wind, sun, coal, gas, or nuclear sources. And it avoided putting much additional strain on the grid.

When EVs became feasible, I added additional solar panels to my roof to power my cars.

Economics drove my decision, not "Green Energy" policy.

But I am also aware, that at this time "Green Energy" is not practical for many poor families or young people living in apartments. If you do not produce your own solar or wind from your roof, then the economics go out the window. Even EVs involve swapping electricity (I produce power for the grid during the day produced by my solar panels) and then take electricity back from the grid at 1AM most likely produced by fossil fuels. Most cars are not at "home" during the day, so charging is done at night and very little "Green Energy" is produced at night.

Throughout Europe and the US "Green Energy" politicians face being thrown out of office due to their myopic approach to carbon emissions. Rather than coercing change, figure out how to make change the obvious choice. That requires creative thinking and not brute political coercion, which people resent.

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