Alex Epstein

Google and Amazon’s data centers in northern Indiana are reportedly going to be served by a coal power plant. And yet, officially, both companies still claim they are meeting their "100% renewable energy" goals. How is this possible? Because both of these companies engage in deceptive "renewable" accounting: the practice of buying so-called "credits" to count others' solar and wind use as their own, while foisting the "blame" for their fossil fuel use onto others. Amazon's latest "sustainability" report: "Amazon meets 100% renewable energy goal 7 years early. All of the electricity consumed by Amazon’s operations, including its data centers, was matched with 100% renewable energy in 2023." Google's latest "sustainability" report: "We’ve matched 100% of our global electricity use with renewable energy purchases since 2017." Of course, it's nothing new that these companies have depended heavily on coal power. That have for their entire existence. In 2000, coal produced 51.4% of US electricity. Even in 2023, coal still produced 16.2% of US electricity. When will Google and Amazon admit—and ideally, embrace—that they are powered by fossil fuels? They make incredible products, and they are using affordable, reliable energy to power them. That's nothing to be ashamed of.

@RedWavePress @joerogan give the people that work in this vitally important US based industry a chance to explain

It is a really really good thing that the US did not ban fracking. The prices of gasoline and electricity would be way higher, and we would be totally stunted in our ability to unleash AI.

The fact that people are seriously considering trying to build data centers in space—while they should certainly be allowed to try—is a sign of just how broken the American permitting system has become. That's why permitting reform is my #1 policy focus right now.

Why I oppose the E15 bill and support fuel freedom: ➡️The E15 bill permanently expands the ethanol mandate. (Applies it to smaller refineries and loosens air quality rules that limit the mandate’s reach.) ➡️The E15 bill raises gasoline prices a lot long-term 1) cripples small refiners and lowers competition 2) we have to pay for expensive ethanol credits 3) we have to pay for ethanol when it’s more expensive than gasoline ➡️The E15 bill does nothing to lower gasoline prices short-term. (Admin has already allowed E-15 this year.) Congress should vote against this E15 bill and replace it with a fuel freedom bill: allow all ethanol blends in exchange for no ethanol mandate.

"The E15 bill isn't a mandate." No, it's the *expansion* of a mandate. The ethanol mandate requires more ethanol than we can use. The Clean Air Act (CAA) serves as a check on it. So do Small Refinery Exemptions (SREs). Loosening the CAA and reducing SREs expands the mandate.

Stop corn and oil lobbyists from permanently expanding the ethanol mandate The corn lobby, joined by many oil lobbyists, is pushing a bill to expand the ethanol mandate by 1) loosening air quality rules and 2) imposing the mandate on small refineries. This will raise fuel costs.

.@AlexEpstein makes this point clear: “The ethanol mandate increases the price of gasoline by up to $0.30/gallon by forcing refiners to buy expensive biofuel credits whose costs get passed onto us”

Dear @RepAdrianSmith, I’m glad you want fuel freedom. Therefore will you join @BasedMikeLee, @chiproytx, @RepScottPerry, etc in supporting elimination of the ethanol mandate in exchange for year-round E15? Otherwise you’re just expanding the mandate. x.com/AlexEpstein/st…

Great letter by @chiproytx and @RepScottPerry advocating for fuel freedom and opposing the corn and oil lobbyists pushing to expand the terrible ethanol mandate.

Use @AlexEpsteinAI to write a letter to your Representative about why you oppose expanding government-dictated ethanol. alexepstein.ai/ethanol

Natural gas is abundant in many places in the U.S. What we lack are the pipelines to move it.

Even the people trying to fan the flames of climate change hysteria can’t pretend like it’s ever going to seriously impact American living standards. The closest they have is energy costs, with no explanation why you need government subsidies if renewals actually are cheaper.

Do not expand the ethanol mandate! Eliminate it, then let all forms of ethanol compete under a policy of fuel freedom.

Congress is debating E15 gasoline but ignoring the real problem: the Renewable Fuel Standard The RFS forces Americans to subsidize ethanol and keeps the industry hooked on federal support Time for an intervention! End the mandate and let markets work cato.org/blog/american-…

E15 isn’t choice—it’s the ethanol lobby’s Trojan horse. It locks in the destructive Renewable Fuel Standard: a hidden gas tax that spikes fuel prices, threatens refinery jobs, and weakens American energy strength. Republicans must decide: government mandates or fuel freedom?

🚨 Scam alert 🚨 Georgia's new "Customer Identified Resources" program lets data centers claim solar and wind farms as "their" electricity sources, while still totally relying on Georgia's overwhelmingly gas-, nuclear-, and coal-powered grid. This is exactly the kind of practice that helped create our reliable electricity shortage in the first place, by misleading the public and policymakers into thinking major companies can run on solar/wind and thus it's safe to rapidly reduce fossil fuel use.

Texas's lack of red tape has made it a lot easier for them to farm subsidies and steal from the rest of the country.