In a recent episode of American Thought Leaders, host Jan Jekielek talks with Steve Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute. Mr. Milloy argues that the dependence of the American green tech industry on China is short-sighted and dangerous, and that rather than reducing carbon emissions, the West has merely exported them to hostile actors.
Mr. Jekielek: The U.S. is having record energy production right now. What policy do you recommend?
Mr. Milloy: Japan, Korea, and the European countries all love U.S. gas.
We can make a lot of money selling LNG [Liquefied Natural Gas] to those countries. We can have a robust industry and get back in charge of the price of oil.
That has strategic benefits because it weakens OPEC. It weakens Iran, it weakens Russia, it weakens China. Crippling our energy production just doesn’t make sense. The United States only creates about 10 percent or so of global emissions. The United States could go dark forever, and you’re still going to have 90 percent of emissions. Emissions are never going away. […]
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