WSJ: Solar and Wind Need A “Reality Check”
Eco-activists like to say that solar and wind can power America on their own. They propose energy mandates saying you must use energy sources like these, and that states must cease using proven energy sources like oil and natural gas. They propose dangerous policies like the “Green New Deal” that would force a similar transition on the federal level. But is the rhetoric of the eco-left divorced from reality? The data says unequivocally “yes.” Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, explains in the Wall Street Journal that “despite years of federal subsidies, wind and solar are being trounced by…
