Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy - Hardcover

The past two centuries witnessed the most astonishing leap in human welfare in history. But now the leaders of the world's most prosperous and advanced nations are determined to undo it.

The ability to harness the enormous energy packed into fossil fuels coal, oil, and natural gas meant that for the first time, most human beings could enjoy a life that was not "poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Virtually all the necessities of life food, heat, clothing, shelter depend on the conversion of energy. It was the transition from muscle, wind, and wood to fossil fuels as the chief source of that energy that gave us modern life.

Incredibly enough, throwing that all away is now considered a serious national policy.

Radical environmentalists have convinced many of the global elite that the greatest threat to mankind is climate change produced by the burning of fossil fuels a view that has hardened into a ferociously enforced dogma. The Paris Agreement of 2015 embodies their goal of an unprecedented regression to the limited horizons of preindustrial societies.

Exposing the madness of the green war on abundant energy, the economic and energy experts Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White explain:

Why the idea of replacing fossil fuel energy with the medieval technologies of wind, solar power, and biomass is a dangerous fantasy
How recent technological breakthroughs have made our supply of oil and gas virtually unlimited, exploding the myth of peak oil”
Why the cruel green agenda will keep billions of people in grinding poverty and threatens the world with mass starvation
The value of the energy underneath federal lands and waters is at least $50 trillion
With a pro-America energy policy, the U.S. could be energy independent by the year 2020

The world faces a stark choice between unprecedented prosperity fueled by abundant energy or self-inflicted poverty. The stakes are higher than you think.

STEPHEN MORRE is the distinguished visiting fellow in the Project for Economic Growth at The Heritage Foundation and the former senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal. His most recent book, co-authored with Arthur Laffer, is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States.

KATHLEEN HARTNETT WHITE is the distinguished senior fellow and director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin and the former chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the second-largest environmental regulatory agency after the EPA. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Stanford and her law degree at Texas Tech. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Forbes, National Review, and Investor’s Business Daily.