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Thursday's Energy Absurdity: Not One Question on Energy in the GOP Debate

David Blackmon
Aug 24, 2023

Ron DeSantis said “we will open up production; we will be energy dominant in the United States” if he were elected president. Vivek Ramaswamy called the “climate agenda” a “hoax” in response to a moderator question about climate change.

That was about it even tangentially related to what is perhaps the most pressing long-term issue facing mankind in Wednesday’s GOP debate.


That’s a tragedy, both for the candidates and for all of us. We can blame it on the moderators, Fox News’s Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, but the lack of conversation around this issue must also be laid at the feet of the candidates given that the format of the debate allowed for plenty of riffing and pivoting. That none of them chose to riff or pivot to an issue that is on pretty much everyone’s minds almost every day of the week shows a lack of thought being given to the issue.

Not that there’s much thought about energy or anything else happening in Joe Biden’s mind, other than when his next vacation starts, but his political appointees do an awful lot of scheming about energy each and every day. The scheming mostly amounts to finding ways to make the U.S. increasingly dependent on China for its future energy security. Indeed, as I told a TV interviewer Tuesday, if you were going to draw up a plan to intentionally render the U.S. and the rest of the western world subservient to China for energy security needs, this is the plan you’d draw up.

These candidates - and Donald Trump, who chose not to participate in favor of a taped interview with Tucker Carlson that appears destined to get 200 million views - need to understand the mess regarding energy policy they will inherit if elected to the presidency in 2024 and be properly prepared to unwind an incredibly tangled web of misappropriation, Soviet-style regulation and destructive incentives that have been invoked by the IRA and this administration.

It is going to be a gargantuan job for the next president just to avoid the looming energy trainwreck I detailed in yesterday’s piece published in The Telegraph. To hold a two-hour debate and not pose a single question directly related to the topic seems inexcusable, and frankly absurd.

Do better, Fox News.

That is all.

https://blackmon.substack.com/p/thursdays-energy-absurdity-not-one?publication_id=712558&post_id=136366248&isFreemail=true