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By Robert Bradley Jr<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Ed. Note: Part I yesterday<\/a><\/strong> examined quotations on the primacy of energy for human betterment from friends of conventional energy. Today\u2019s post adds respect from foes of oil, gas, and coal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free-market energy proponents gain the high ground when they stress the utilitarian nature of affordable, plentiful, reliable energy. Energy statists must play defense when their opponents stress the need to keep energy affordable for the less financially able and those billion-plus world citizens who do not have access to modern forms of energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Increased energy affordability is not bad but good. Yet cheap energy is the enemy to the other side (although the Obama greens will not publicly admit it). Julian Simon noticed as much when he wrote The Cheaper the Energy the Better<\/a> during the BTU tax debate in 1993:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some people simply believe that it is ipso facto a good thing to use less energy and have less economic growth. As Paul Ehrlich put it, \u201cGiving society cheap abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.\u201d Other backers of the [BTU tax] bill seek not only to preserve the supply of energy but also to return to a \u201csimpler life\u201d (for others, of course, not for themselves) because it will make us better human beings. As Amory Lovins puts it, \u201cIf nuclear power were clean, safe, economic, assured of ample fuel . . . it would still be unattractive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This presents a quandary for the energy interventionists (aka forced energy transformationists) given that prominent voices in moments of candor have  expounded on the importance of affordable, plentiful, reliable energy for humankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following sampling of quotations documents this point. We start with John Holdren,  President Obama\u2019s science advisor<\/a>, and continue with Paul Ehrlich, Amory Lovins, and some prominent left-of-center environmental and energy\/environmental groups.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

 James Hansen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet\u2019s be clear: the frequent comparison of the fossil fuel and tobacco industries is nonsense. Fossil fuels are a valuable energy source that has done yeomen service for humankind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 James Hansen, \u201cFighting the Battles: Winning the War\u201d (June 1, 2021<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

John Holdren on Energy Primacy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen energy is scarce or expensive, people can suffer material deprivation and economic hardship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013  John Holdren, \u201cPopulation and the Energy Problem,\u201d Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies<\/em>, Spring 1991, p. 231.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA reliable and affordable supply of energy is absolutely critical to maintaining and expanding economic prosperity where such prosperity already exists and to creating it where it does not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 John Holdren, \u201cMemorandum to the President: The Energy-Climate Challenge,\u201d in Donald Kennedy and John Riggs, eds., U.S.<\/em> Policy and the Global Environment: Memos to the President<\/em> (Washington, D.C.: The Aspen Institute, 2000), p. 21.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAffordable energy in ample quantities is the lifeblood of the industrial societies and a prerequisite for the economic development of the others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/em>\u2013  John Holdren, \u201cMeeting the Energy Challenge,\u201d Science,<\/em> February 9, 2001, p. 945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVirtually all of the benefits that now seem necessary to the \u2018American way\u2019 have required vast amounts of energy. Energy, in short, has been our ultimate raw material, for our commitment to economic growth has also been a commitment to the use of steadily increasing amounts of energy necessary to the production of goods and services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 <\/em>\u2013 John Holdren and Philip Herrera, Energy<\/em> (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1971), p. 10.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEnergy is an indispensable ingredient of material prosperity. . . . Where and when energy is in short supply or too expensive, people suffer from lack of direct energy services (such as cooking, heating, lighting, and transport) and from inflation, unemployment, and reduced economic output.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013  John Holdren, Population and the Energy Problem,\u201d Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies<\/em>, Spring 1991, p. 232.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSupplying energy to the economy contributes to the production of a stream of economic goods and services generally supportive of well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013  John Holdren, \u201cCoal in Context: Its Role in the National Energy Future,\u201d University<\/em> of Houston<\/em> Law Review<\/em>, July 1978, p. 1089.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Paul Ehrlich<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeemingly abundant and cheap sources of energy permitted large-scale replacement of human labor in both manufacturing and agricultural production. . . . The availability of \u2018cheap\u2019 energy also made possible the development of powerful farm machinery, and abundant oil and gas allowed development of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and other products to boost crop yields (production per acre) considerably above those achieved with traditional methods. Similarly, we can thank fossil energy for facilitating the production of many useful goods and for stimulating unprecedented rapid expansion of economies and of food production. In effect, fossil energy facilitated the population explosion of the twentieth century.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 Paul and Anne Ehrlich, The Population Explosion <\/em>(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), p. 27.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Amory Lovins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs medical science, by deferring death, has allowed many more people to live on the earth, so the energy of fossil fuels, by deferring physical scarcity, has kept those people alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 Amory Lovins, World Energy Strategies: Facts, Issues, and Options<\/em> (New York: Friends of the Earth International, 1975), p. 3.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong>Worldwatch Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEnergy is the lifeblood of the world\u2019s economy, the underlying means by which modern societies function. Oil, coal, natural gas, and electricity are needed for virtually every important function in industrial societies\u2014from growing and cooking food, to manufacturing, heating and cooling buildings, and moving people and goods. The interruption of supplies by storms, earthquakes, wars, or other events quickly demonstrates how totally dependent we have become on the energy-consuming machines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 James MacKenzie, \u201cOil as a Finite Resource: When is Global Production Likely to Peak?\u201d World Resources Institute<\/em>, March 1996, p. 2.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

World Commission on Environment and Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEnergy is necessary for daily survival. Future development crucially depends on its long-term availability in increasing quantities from sources that are dependable, safe, and environmentally sound.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 The World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 168.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNatural resources are the foundation for human life and underpin sustainable development. They provide the raw materials for meeting basic human needs: food and water, clothing and shelter, medicine, tools, energy and communication. They also provide recreational and other non-consumptive services for increasing numbers of people. Beyond these human needs, natural resources play an important role in providing the food, habitat, and reproductive bases for virtually all living resources, and in meeting ecosystem functions like carbon and nitrogen fixation, water catchment and temperature buffering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Sustainable Development: Critical Issues<\/em> (Paris: OECD, 2001), p. 273.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

World Energy Council<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReliable and affordable access to modern energy services is an indicator of sustainable development, for without it basic needs cannot be satisfied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 World Energy Council, Living in One World<\/em> (London: World Energy Council, 2001), p. 74.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Other Quotations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter 1820 the world\u2019s economy became increasingly based on work done by nonmuscular energy. By 1950 any society that did not deploy copious energy was doomed to poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 J. R. McNeil, Something New Under the Sun<\/em> (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000), p. 298.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe great forward steps of civilization are at least connected in part to breakthroughs on the energy front. The discovery of fire gave primitive man security and comfort on the ground; the domestication of animals added their greater muscle capacity to his. Later on, the waterwheel opened up a new source of energy to exploitation, greatly increasing the power available to his tasks. Then, in the nineteenth century the industrial revolution was fueled by coal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 John Fowler, Energy and the Environment <\/em>(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975), p. 296.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTechnology and change follow the liberation of energy. The lifestyle of contemporary America was destined by the development of fossil fuels in this seminal era.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2013 Wilson Clark, Energy for Survival: The Alternative to Extinction <\/em>(Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1974), p. 45.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The post\u00a0Appreciating the Master Resource (Part II: Energy Foes Agree!)<\/a>\u00a0appeared first on\u00a0Master Resource<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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