Energy in the Western world is cheap and ubiquitous. It wasn’t always so, and it’s not guaranteed.
Marian Tupy writes:
Today, energy is so abundant that many Western governments are trying to limit its use through punitive tariffs. “Fuel poverty,” or the unenviable choice between a freezing cold apartment and a massive heating bill, is already killing thousands of poor people and pensioners in Europe, and compounding the continent’s manufacturing woes, as high energy prices force factories to close and move overseas. Unfortunately, our obsession with global warming and planetary destruction, and our misguided attempts to curtail CO2 emissions through limits on energy use, are slowly filtering down to places where access to cheap energy is still a distant dream
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