X-Raying the Reality and Origin of a Hollow Phrase: ‘Energy Transition’
REAL CLEAR MARKETS …………. It is often useful to contrast rhetoric with reality. The phrase, an “energy transition,” the goal to replace hydrocarbons, has origins that trace back to a 1977 speech by President Jimmy Carter. It was an “address to the nation” that commandeered national media, as is the convention on occasions when presidents seek to…