Another Energy Transition Is Possible

Isn't it the case that even the first energy transition from biomass to fossil fuels has yet to occur, since we are using more biomass than ever before?

Will the people of the US invest in an energy transition?

They thought they were investing in energy independence: we've never pumped more oil or exported more oil than ever before!

But we don't actually have energy independence:

Texas doesn't refine the crude pumped out of Texas.

The US cannot export oil without importing.

The US still must import foreign crude and other oil to blend into gasoline.

If the US had invested the amount invested in foreign wars (which subsidize the price of gasoline) in clean energy and storage, we would be significantly further along on our next energy transition.

But we can't seem to stop ourselves from getting taken by freeloading oil lobbyists that don't pay their debt-financed war bills.

People fought the Keystone XL pipeline here in the US for years before Trump weakly capitulated to Canadian oil.