Steven Hayward at the Civitas Institute charts the remarkable transformation of the U.S. from energy beggar importing 75 percent of its crude oil into the world’s foremost producer and a major exporter of oil and natural gas. Out the window are “Peak Oil” theory, ever-higher energy prices and the green energy obsession. Plentiful affordable energy is now driving an American industrial revival and enabling the U.S. to lead the AI revolution.
Blueprint for Alberta?
Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
