It is somewhat amazing to reflect on how radically the conversation around energy has transformed in America since 2020. Amid all the societal madness that took place around an array of social issues – race, gender, DEI, disinformation and whether it should be censored – it was easy for many to ignore the similarly mad nature of discussions around energy which happened during the five years from 2020 through 2024.

Those who understand the complexities of energy in all its forms and wished to talk and write about them in a factual manner found themselves often being ordered or otherwise “encouraged” to at best soften their language on such things or, worse, to outright lie about them in order to maintain social license.

True story: In 2021, I was suspended for a full week by old Twitter, one of whose censors bluntly told me that some purely factual information I had written there about the use of coal in power generation was a violation of the platform’s “community standards,” such as they were at the time BE, i.e., Before Elon. A content cop at another social site informed me shortly later that the reason some of my posts were so obviously throttled was that the algorithm had identified me as being, and I quote, “pro-fossil fuels.”

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