President Trump has it dead right. Recently, he signed five executive orders using the Defense Production Act to accelerate domestic fossil fuel development and electrical grid infrastructure. America needs no-holds-barred development of oil, natural gas, coal, critical minerals, metals, a nuclear renaissance, and manufacturing of the technologies that keep our economy humming and our nation secure.

It’s good to see a president who has zero patience for wind, solar, and giant battery schemes because he understands one simple truth: We must have reliable, affordable, dispatchable energy — not power that goes belly up when the wind dies, clouds roll in, or the sun sets. 

Naturally, Democrats oppose any such logic ... if for no other reason than Trump supports it. They want to bulldoze any notion of using fossil fuels while hypocritically fighting nuclear power and even reliable hydroelectric dams. Their green zealotry knows no bounds.

While that’s no surprise, what’s far more alarming (and bizarre) is that some Republicans are pushing a similar watered-down “low-carb net-zero” fantasy, just like the Democrats. They don’t call it the “Green New Deal.” That would be too much.

Instead, they brand it as embracing an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy — one that gives a nod and a wink to nuclear and hydro, but undermines fossil fuels and keeps the mandates, subsidies, and tax credits flowing to wind, solar, and........

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