A New IEA Report and the Iberian Blackout End Dreams of an ‘Energy Transition’

A New IEA Report and the Iberian Blackout End Dreams of an ‘Energy Transition’
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Mark Mills
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It’s no secret that the Republican’s “Big Beautiful Bill” plans to axe large swaths of mandates and billions of dollars in subsidies directed at achieving a so-called “energy transition.” If that budget axe falls, it will be the proverbial third strike that puts to rest the idea that the United States, never mind the world, will abandon fossil fuels. The other two strikes already happened.

Mark Mills
Mark Mills
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Mark P. Mills is a distinguished senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a contributing editor of City Journal, a strategic partner in the energy fund Montrose Lane, faculty fellow, Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering, author of “The Cloud Revolution,” and host of “The Last Optimist” podcast. Mark served as chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies and helped take it public. He also served in the Reagan White House Science Office and was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics.