AWASH IN FOSSIL FUELS

According to George Will, the world is awash in fossil fuel.

Such good news horrifies people who relish scarcity because it requires -- or so they say -- government to ration what is scarce and to generally boss people to mend their behavior: “This is the police! Put down that incandescent bulb and step away from the lamp!” ...[T]here is a name for the political doctrine that rejoices in scarcity of everything except government. The name is environmentalism.

I’ve posted on the ecological insanity of environmentalism, and Will is right. The exact quantity of fossil energy notwithstanding, the world needs to generate and use more energy, not less. The choice is stark: America’s standard of living -- or Somalia’s.