AVERAGE rate of renewable growth from 2004 to 2022 is less than the AVERAGE rate of growth in hydrocarbons over the same period.
Just coincidentally, that period includes all of the boom in "unconventional" gas (i.e. fracking) which turned the US into a net gas exporter -- while only catching the tail end of the (roughly exponential?) renewable growth curve.
Sorry, the author appears to be cherry picking here. Ask yourself, "why 2004"?
1) post - 2000 makes it look 'fresh', two decades of lookback diminishes the recent changes which look bad for the pro hydrocarbon camp.
2) Rob Bryce is now and always has been a Texas PR voice for the Texas oil baron crowd.
He comes to substack via the Institute for Energy Research ( a successor to the Institute for Humane Studies and another jewel in the Koch anti climate pro burn oil PR thinky tanks ) and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (aka Centre of Conservative Turd Gilding and Polishing ).
His job is literally to spin data to make oil look good.
It presumably ends in 2022 because that's the last full year and the data for 2023 would be incomplete and therefore not be comparable. That's expected, not some sort of sneaky trick.
As for including the fracking boom, so what? Isn't that a rephrasing of his point? Hydrocarbon usage has gone up a lot. How is it cherry picking to use nearly 20 years of data?
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AVERAGE rate of renewable growth from 2004 to 2022 is less than the AVERAGE rate of growth in hydrocarbons over the same period.
Just coincidentally, that period includes all of the boom in "unconventional" gas (i.e. fracking) which turned the US into a net gas exporter -- while only catching the tail end of the (roughly exponential?) renewable growth curve.
Sorry, the author appears to be cherry picking here. Ask yourself, "why 2004"?
Two answers of note:
1) post - 2000 makes it look 'fresh', two decades of lookback diminishes the recent changes which look bad for the pro hydrocarbon camp.
2) Rob Bryce is now and always has been a Texas PR voice for the Texas oil baron crowd.
He comes to substack via the Institute for Energy Research ( a successor to the Institute for Humane Studies and another jewel in the Koch anti climate pro burn oil PR thinky tanks ) and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (aka Centre of Conservative Turd Gilding and Polishing ).
His job is literally to spin data to make oil look good.
It presumably ends in 2022 because that's the last full year and the data for 2023 would be incomplete and therefore not be comparable. That's expected, not some sort of sneaky trick.
As for including the fracking boom, so what? Isn't that a rephrasing of his point? Hydrocarbon usage has gone up a lot. How is it cherry picking to use nearly 20 years of data?
I was all the way out the first time he wrote “dark money”