Time to Call Climate Change for What It Is: The Weather
John Ransom
Jan 03, 2014

The New Year brings us back to the number one reason liberals give regarding their war on America’s energy industry.

Why does it take us there? Because this is more than a new year-- it’s an election year, and there are two different visions of the country that need to be contrasted for voters this year.

And it’s not just the responsibility of candidates and political parties and super PACs to talk about what America can be.

It’s your responsibility to do it too. You can do it over the fence post, or a soccer game or a cup of coffee, or over the Internet.

It’s a story that needs to be told.

Just to recap, the fossil energy industry, thanks to hydraulic fracturing, is situated to deliver us from the worst fiscal crisis since the Civil War, when greenback were printed to make up for the lack of investor interest in American debt.

And a report last year confirmed what I’ve been saying for three years now: There’s enough fossil energy available domestically for the United States to not just be energy independent, but for the U.S. to be the great exporter of energy for the world.

“Shale oil (light tight oil) is rapidly emerging as a significant and relatively low cost new unconventional resource in the US,” writes PWC in its February, 2013 report Shale oil: the next energy…

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