November 28, 2012

We Need Energy Evolution, Not Revolution

Craig Pirrong, Wall Street Pit


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Apropos my visit to Germany: Bloomberg reproduced a piece from InsideClimateNews.com titled “Can the US Create Its Own German-Style Energy Revolution.”  It is a paean to Germany’s Energiewende. Indeed, it is the capstone to a 6 part series (available as an Amazon eBook!) plus a slide show that is one big slobbering wet kiss to Germany’s top-down policies designed at controlling how energy is produced and consumed.  And of course, German top-down social control policies have always worked out so well.

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