By Alex Epstein
Question from his speeches.
Q: Why don’t fossil fuel advocates use Germany more as an example of solar and wind failing to replace fossil fuels?
A: It’s being more and more used. What is interesting is when I started debating people on these issues, Germany used to be their success case, even when it was failing at the beginning. By the way, we should take maximal advantage of all the stupid policy decisions and bad outcomes that have already happened to preempt future ones.
Germany is a great example. Germany, California, all of these different examples, they should be used all the time. I’m totally in favor of using them. Sometimes people have this attitude that, “You know what? We just have to let things get really bad, and then people will wake up.” Unfortunately when things get really bad, A) they got really bad and that’s bad, since this means people suffered and died. And B) the people who caused it don’t usually admit it was their fault.
Even in Germany—I was talking to some people in Congress who went over in a delegation there. They went over to Germany and they just thought Germany was just going to be apologizing and saying, “You know what? You Americans were right.” But Germany was like, “No, we’ve been right all along. We should be doing more of this.” The people with the correct interpretation need to be sounding a warning at every increment of destruction and drawing on these examples.
We already have plenty of grid problems to show that the green agenda is bad. We don’t need more grid problems to show this, we need more awareness of what’s happening. By the way, one way to take advantage of this is to not just consider things bad—we should consider things bad and treat them as bad, not just if thousands of people die—we should consider them bad if we regress at all.
One thing I’ve convinced some politicians to say, particularly in Texas, is that you guys should be embarrassed that you’ll have 30 days in a row where your electric utilities tell you, “Use less electricity.” Thomas Edison would be so ashamed of the industry. We uninvented the reliable electric grid.
We need to be ashamed that we are having problems with reliable electricity in this day and age. In the fifties, they thought we were going to be having flying cars, not that we would have insufficient electricity. We should already be alarmed going backwards. It’s like the iPhone 16 is like the Motorola Razr. That’s what’s happening, and we should be outraged about it. All the bad stuff is plenty for us to be upset about and change people’s opinions.
https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/answers-to-questions-about-the-social
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