Ed. Note: With COP30 under way, it is an opportune time consider the opportunity cost to climate statism. The alternative represents true social justice and energy plenty in a sea of freedom. This repost from two years ago outlines the most important global energy issue of our time.
“The case of Guillermo Yeatts for subsoil privatization should eclipse ‘climate change’ as the number one policy initiative of the 21st century. This friend of private property, free markets, the rule of law, and civil society, a successful entrepreneur in his own right, a thinker and doer, has set up an excellent opportunity for a new political era in his beloved Argentina.”
Give me liberty, not corruption and poverty! The recent election of Javier Milei of La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) in Argentina was a resounding vote for freedom and prosperity.…
Continue ReadingBill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina in April introduced to the Senate a new version of their Foreign Pollution Fee Act, which they claim would “level the playing field for American manufacturers” by imposing carbon emission-linked levies on a range of imports. The bill is inspired by the fact that US manufacturers tend to have smaller carbon footprints than their Chinese rivals. That’s largely because the biggest means of electricity generation in the US is its abundant shale gas, while the Chinese grid has a greater reliance on coal (though new capacity in both countries is now mostly renewable).
Foreign Pollution Fee Act, which they claim would “level the playing field for American manufacturers” by imposing carbon emission-linked levies on a range of imports.
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Continue Reading“It was like a bunch of gangsters coming into the neighborhood and smashing windows and threatening shop owners … a shock-and-awe thuggery approach.” – Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D, Rhode Island)
The recent New York Times article, “Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure” (Lisa Friedman et al.: November 6, 2025) somehow forgets that politics is messy and confrontational. It did not start with Trump, and climate politics has long been a contact sport for the Progressive Left.
“Nations were poised to approve the first fee on pollution from ships. That’s when the Trump administration began the threats,” the article begins. Trump’s intervention was “extraordinary, even by the standards of the Trump administration’s combativeness, according to nine diplomats on its receiving end.”
The global climate taxers were nonplussed.…
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