The Environmentalist Take on the Blackout
By Paul Blair

 

The environmentalist take on the blackout? We're hearing it everywhere: "It was a transmission problem, not a supply problem."

 

Which means: The supply problem should be addressed only after it too becomes a crisis.

 

Environmentalists have worked for thirty years to destroy every prospect for cheap, plentiful energy. Now they would have us ignore the inevitable consequences of their policies and do nothing--until it's too late. From such range-of-the-moment mentalities are blackouts born.

  
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