Much of ‘Going Green’ Is Pure Bunk

By: John Stossel:

I ride my bike to work. It seems so pure.

We’re constantly urged to “go green” — use less energy, shrink our carbon footprint, save the Earth. How? We should drive less, use ethanol, recycle plastic, and buy things with the government’s Energy Star label.

But what if much of going green is just bunk? Al Gore’s group, Repower America, claims we can replace all our dirty energy with clean, carbon-free renewables. Gore says we can do it within 10 years.

“It’s simply not possible,” says Robert Bryce on my Fox Business Network show Thursday night. “Nine out of 10 units of power that we consume are produced by hydrocarbons — coal, oil, and natural gas. Any transition away from those sources is going to be a decades-long, maybe even a century-long process . . . The world consumes 200 billion barrels of hydrocarbons per day. We would have to find the energy equivalent of 23 Saudi Arabias.”

Bryce is the author of “Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy.” He used to be a left-liberal, but then: “I educated myself about math and physics. I’m a liberal who was mugged by the laws of thermodynamics.”

Bryce mocked the “green” value of my riding my bike to work:

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