Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein
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Testimony: "How the Biden Administration and the Global Anti-Fossil-Fuel Movement Caused an Energy Crisis and Inflated Our Cost of Living"Testimony for the Congressional Off-Site Hearing: “Addressing Bidenflation and Biden’s Energy Crisis”
Alex Epstein


Today the House Freedom Caucus held an off-site hearing: “Addressing Bidenflation and Biden’s Energy Crisis.” I was a witness, along with former Texas Governor and Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, economist Stephen Moore, and Western Energy Alliance President Kathleen Sgamma. Here is the written testimony I submitted. You can watch my testimony, as well as my answers to all the Representatives’ questions, in the video below.

In 2016, I testified in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about how the anti-fossil-fuel policies of the Obama-Biden administration would lead to higher energy prices, which would drive higher prices in every area of the global economy.1

I explained that because fossil fuels provide low-cost, reliable, scalable energy that cannot be rapidly replaced by unreliable solar and wind, “…the President's anti-fossil fuel policies would harm billions of lives economically….” I explained that because “The energy industry is the industry that powers every other industry” therefore “the cost of your food, the cost of your clothing, the cost of your shelter, the success of your business, your ability to take a vacation, the cost of all the different modern miracles, the cost of your healthcare...they are all tied to energy.”

As an energy expert and a philosopher—an expert on thinking methods—I explained to the Senators that the basic mistake of the Obama administration was the failure to “integrate the big picture data.” The Obama Administration was ignoring the unique benefits of fossil fuels to the global economy and to global human flourishing.

Unfortunately, many of the Senators were unwilling to recognize this error in themselves and in the Administration.

When I tried to get my Senator from California, Barbara Boxer, to see that she was ignoring the unique benefits of fossil fuels to the global economy, she dismissed me with the comment: “I am not asking you anything. I am telling you that all you have to know is you are a philosopher...and I don't appreciate getting lectured by a philosopher.”2

But had Senator Boxer and the Obama-Biden administration listened to me and others who warned that anti-fossil fuel policies would lead to higher energy costs, which would lead to price inflation throughout the global economy, we wouldn’t be experiencing a national and global energy crisis today.

Let me be clear: today’s energy crisis is very simple and it was completely preventable.

The price of energy, like all prices, is set by supply and demand.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

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When was the last new refinery built in the United States? What are the chances of another one being built here in the future?

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When was the last new refinery built in the United States? What are the chances of another one being built here in the future?

@Isailedaway @Sanguine @EdJames

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