Midterm Election Day has passed. For the past several weeks, my phone was inundated with spam calls and text messages about the election. That was annoying, but more annoying was that my physical mailbox was stuffed daily with such quantities of flyers telling me how terrible one local candidate or another is. I am sure that they must have clear-cut several tree plantations just to send me mailers.

Among them was one sent out by a local Democrat-affiliated group decrying a Republican candidate for several things that I found extremely ironic. First, that they are a terrible no-good climate denier. Also, that Republicans caused the war in Iran, which led to high gasoline prices, and that this candidate is too friendly to data centers, which I am told are making electricity rates skyrocket (they aren’t).

Before tossing the mailer and all the rest of the junk into the trashcan, I marveled at the hypocrisy.

Just a few years ago, “degrowth” was a popular buzzword from leftist elites around the world. They loved the idea of making gasoline — and all petroleum products — more expensive in order to force people to use less of it. A massive push towards greater energy efficiency was foisted upon us over the past several decades in preparation for a supposedly........

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