America Needs a Rational Energy Policy - The American Spectator

Access to cheap, reliable, safe energy is crucial to human well-being. Higher per capita energy consumption correlates tightly with human prosperity (see graph in this link and here). It is no exaggeration to say that we could not possibly be as wealthy as we are today — far wealthier than our great-grandparents — were it not for all the energy we have consumed. The multi-generational evolution of our sources of energy shows two clear trends. As developed economies progressed from wood to coal to oil to natural gas to nuclear,...