Energy Leadership

How American Energy Production Can Make The World Safer

Preview:

This paper does not set out a plan for American energy independence with the aim of insulating the United States from the kind of leverage being exerted on policymakers like Olaf Scholz. Rather, Energy Leadership makes the case for a bolder strategy: using the ability of the United States to produce cheap energy in abundance to lower global energy prices and pry a key source of strategic leverage from the hands of Vladimir Putin.

First, we outline the vulnerability of the Russian economy to such a strategy. Second, we explain why a shift to ‘renewables’ in the United States will not be anywhere near sufficient to execute this strategy, at least in a useful timeframe — indeed, such moves are the source of many of the woes currently facing countries like Germany. Finally, we outline a plan that actually will provide cheap, clean energy in abundance. If we must oppose Putin’s expansionism, it is vastly better to do so with cheap energy than with other methods.

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