Electric vehicles could weaken Vladimir Putin.
This is the March 10, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West.I got a text from a friend the other night: “Is energy about to be the No. 1 domestic hot-button issue for the next couple months?”Jokes aside — energy should be a hot-button even when gas prices aren’t going through the roof, because energy is climate, andAdvertisement. By accelerating the shift to electric cars and electric heat pumps, the U.S.
If there were ever a moment for America to break through its political logjam on climate and start taking dramatic steps to phase out fossil fuels,Michael Wara, a Stanford University energy professor, proposed a trade: The U.S. should increase oil and natural gas production in the short term to combat Putin and limit gas prices, but only if Congress approves “a massive program to electrify the U.S. vehicle fleet.
“It’s a short-term win for the oil industry and the shale patch, and it’s a long-term win for all Americans that this will never happen again,” he said. “We won’t be vulnerable to some madman somewhere who happens to have a bunch of oil in the ground.” “And it’s not going to be the last time,” he added."[Mohammed] bin Salman, Saudi Arabia is a time bomb. If Russia is problematic, just imagine if there was a problem on the Arabian Peninsula, in the kingdom. What would happen? We’re so vulnerable.”
Why is the American economy so vulnerable, when the U.S. is the world’s largest oil producer and Russia accounts for a tiny percentage of imports?
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