Alex Flint

We Can’t Stop Climate Change, So We Need to Prepare for It by @AWFlint and @kaleekreider wsj.com/opinion/we-can…

Remember the Base Realignment and Closure Commission? What about doing one of those for permitting reform? Got a better idea? realclearenergy.org/articles/2025/…

This is about when the Senate passes the bipartisan spending deal and adjourns for the year.

@Delta In sort of a response,@Delta is no longer DMing with people. Here's what they are saying, "Hi! Thanks for messaging with Delta. My name is Wendy. We are experiencing technical issues at the current time. Please reach back out to us in 30 minutes and we will be happy to assist.

@Delta You are clearly having issues with your app and website. Instead of asking us to DM to address our individual problems, could you post that you know there is an issue and when you think it will be fixed?

The US national debt just went over $32T. That's $95k/citizen and $248k/taxpayer. I really don't know what else to say.

@gregnasif Greg, thanks for noting this. When I wrote it in Feb, some said, “We want to try regular order first.” Fair enough… but that’s not working. I still think we need a BRAC or TPA-like process to do the permitting reform we need, or we just won’t be able to build enough new stuff.

"These days U.S. politics is a gordian knot.  But we cannot be satisfied with the status quo, nor can we afford to not build new, better things. There is an opportunity for permitting reform. We just need to take it." - @AWFlint realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/…

@MarcGoldwein I just checked my Social Security statement (happened to come the other day). My normal retirement year is 2036. Nowhere does my statement say current law will reduce my benefit by 20%. Shouldn't there be an asteric or a qualifier like, "We hope to be able to provide you..."

🚨Hot Of the Presses. 🚨 Everything you want to know about the #SocialSecurity Trustees report: crfb.org/papers/analysi…

Regarding AI, @sundarpichai says climate activism causes him to think, "the collective will will come over time to tackle all of this responsibly." Well... I don't find that reassuring at all. nytimes.com/2023/03/31/tec…

I am curious about about reactions to this idea: realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/…

If you follow me, please take a few minutes to read this. crfb.org/papers/analysi…

Washington, we have a problem. crfb.org/blogs/what-wou…

@bstorrow has a GHG emissions report card based on an @rhodium_group report. U.S. emissions grew 1.3% in '22 following the 6.5% increase in 2021. Since '05, U.S. emissions are down 15.5% which means, to reduce by 50% by '30, they need to fall 5% each year.rhg.com/research/us-gr…

This Thanksgiving, I am grateful @lisamurkowski won. The Senate is better for it.

Pondering something and open to ideas that wouldn't otherwise occur to me. What are the climate policy lessons from the recent UK political and fiscal gyrations?

@AriNatter This is very good news. NOPEC talk is sort of an "always in the background" thing that wiser head ensure doesn't progress. If that ever changed... it's just hard to imagine the mess that might follow.

NEW: Senate leadership has no plans to bring anti-OPEC legislation for a vote. The move effectively takes a powerful weapon the Biden administration has hinted it could use in response to OPEC’s oil supply cuts off the table. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #NOPEC

This NOPEC/anti-OPEC saber rattling is more troubling in a post-Trump/GOP protectionist era. It's dangerous policy, and the normal guardrails that have prevented this sort of thing in the past may be weak.

These economists are starting to be really opinionated about climate: "The world must cut greenhouse gas emissions...[which will] impose short-term economic costs, though these are dwarfed by the innumerable long-term benefits of slowing climate change." imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

The national debt went over $31 trillion today. Each taxpayer's share is over $246,000. Let that sink in. How are we going to pay for that -- or, more realistically, how are our kids going to pay that?