Alex Epstein
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But even if you take some of the others like DeSantis and Vivek, that field was incredibly pro-energy compared to previous years. And I hope this is something that I and the energy humanists have contributed to. Certainly in terms of the arguments available, I'm certain I've helped contribute to it.
So, and then you see, like, in many cases, I know, like, people are using the exact argument and that kind of thing.
But that was this situation where, you know, even compared to, like, Romney, who, by the way, in many ways I admire, so I'm not trying to criticize Mitt Romney, but I'm just saying, like, if you look at the 2012 situation, where Republicans were in 2012, there was much less positive enthusiasm for energy, certainly fossil fuels, and much more friction in terms of, let's hold back fossil fuels for climate reasons, right?
With the crop that we had and certainly ending up with President Trump, like that was not the case. And with Trump, we saw in the end is like a central campaign thing was let's unleash American energy. Which that is, you know, to my energy years, that's music. Like, oh, you want to actually do that? Because that hadn't been.
But then I feel this obligation of, well, we as in a country, we need to be ready for this crisis.
situation and i don't think i don't think we are i mean we are in the sense of they'll they did a lot of good things the first administration so it's not like they'll do nothing good but if you have an opportunity like that you want to do as much good as possible right as a citizen i felt like okay what i can do is try to create like a very specific platform and accompany accompanying messaging so that we have so that they at least have the option
Because I've always said I'm never going into politics, which I'm not. I'm never going to have any control, but at least I can be the ultimate resource if somebody wants to take advantage of the resource. And so this is like the last year and a half has been developing what I call the energy freedom platform. And this is like a very step-by-step detailed guide.
So I thought we'd walk through the high level. Do it. But then we'll go into just some specifics because people can get a flavor. Because what I don't want to do is say, well, you have to be specific, but then just be high level.
But of course, like I sent you one of the internal documents I've shared with people the other day, it's like 125 specific policies. So we're not going to get into that, but I just want to, I'll give a few indications of some of the kinds of specific things.
So it makes sense.
Maybe let's just start off with the five key objectives, and then maybe we can drill down in whatever you're most interested in, because any one of these has numerous priorities and then numerous policies. But I'd say at a high level, number one is liberating responsible domestic development. So that includes like all the pipelines, all energy production, all sorts of stuff.
That's music to an Albertan's ears. Yes, exactly. So, you know, you have a sort of slightly different set of obstacles, but in many ways, the same kinds of obstacles in Canada. And Canada is a total tragedy that I'm also trying to work on at the moment. I mean, it's always even much more of an energy tragedy. We have way more oil reserves than the United States. Yeah.
could be just providing so much... Providing way worse policies. I know, that's the thing, and worse philosophy. So, but we'll focus on the U.S. first. So, it's like liberating responsible development from anti-development policies. So that's that sort of one bucket. Yeah. Number two, is ending preferences for unreliable electricity, which we talked about a little bit.
But fundamentally, our grid, our policy is just totally punishing reliability and rewarding unreliability in the name of so-called renewability. So there's that. Number three is setting environment. This is a really important one that
there's not been enough work on to date, which is setting environmental quality standards based on cost-benefit analysis, on real cost-benefit analysis, including objective health science, not health speculation. That might be an interesting one to go into in terms of how that's done. Number four is addressing climate danger through resilience and energy innovation, not punishing America.
So the way we—our idea is we're going to keep ourselves safe from climate by destroying fossil fuels, which, by the way, have made us way safer from climate. And then suddenly the climate's going to be nice to us, even though the rest of the world's not going to follow. Like, we have this insane thing of we punish ourselves by destroying our fossil fuel industry.
We'll set an example for the rest of the world. And the climate will be nice to us. Right.
But I would say to the point about, so the key is really the combination of resilience. So the way you make yourself safe from climate is by becoming incredibly resilient. That's what we've already seen.
Yes.
And then the other thing, though, I mentioned energy innovation. Countries can set an example insofar as they want superior forms of energy if they can actually innovate a globally cost-competitive alternative energy. Of course. Which is really the only way you can actually address a global issue that's caused by the cheapest form of energy emitting CO2 in the atmosphere. Right.
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