“to prevent energy poverty and to ensure that each at-risk community has access to affordable energy, the United States should ensure that laws relating to environmental and energy policy, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, do not have the effect of increasing the cost of energy for any at-risk community.”
It is time to play offense to put consumers and taxpayers first, while addressing inflation and fiscal imprudence. It is time for “social justice” in its rightful sense of preventing government intervention from hurting the most vulnerable–and everyone else in the same swoop. Yesterday’s post highlighting Derrick Hollie’s work in this area is an excellent start.
It is high time for free market energy reform in place of climate alarmism/forced energy transformation.…
“The Energy Poverty Project (EPP) is an international organization that advocates for minimizing burdensome regulations, promoting human health, combating energy poverty, and improving the quality of life for all people regardless of their race or community.”
Derrick Hollie, head of Reaching America and host of Reaching America on Demand, is a man to watch. And his Energy Poverty Project has the capability and promise to change the debate, reorienting ESG and getting corporate America to think in terms of consumers and taxpayers first.
Hollie has been profiled before at MasterResource. His credentials and motivations are impeccable. He says what he means and means what he says. He is a voice for the future and for the majority of his fellow citizens.
The three major planks of Hollie’s new Energy Poverty Project read:
Energy Poverty
OVER 10 MILLION PEOPLE WHO LIVE WITHIN THE U.S.…
“Today, the libertarian Cato Institute releases its “Policy Handbook for the 104th Congress,” a 39-essay proposal to dismantle the federal government…. The essay on energy was written by Cato camp follower Robert L. Bradley Jr. of Houston … president of his own energy think tank – well, OK, it’s small, more like a think bucket – called the Institute for Energy Research.”
How the energy debate has shifted in the last quarter-century–with the middle moving Left and the free market, classical liberal Right falling off the table. Today, the Green Party has been neutered by the Progressive (or Regressive, as Alex Epstein puts it) Left dictating the debate.
I was reminded of this upon encountering an old ‘Perspectives’ column from John H. Jennrich, the founder and editor of Natural Gas Week.…