Our society’s ‘top brains’ have gone mad — and dysfunctional politics is the result

“Suppose we got it all wrong and the real crazies are the TV people in nice suits and $300 haircuts?”

That’s an observation by Richard Fernandez on Twitter, and he has a good point.

There’s a lot of craziness in the air these days.

But for the most part it seems to be flowing from the top down, not bubbling up from the bottom.

It wasn’t farmers and factory workers who came up with the idiotic COVID responses — nor was it they who originated the more or less criminal idea of conducting “gain of function” research on making dangerous viruses more dangerous.

It wasn’t shopkeepers and bus drivers who thought the way to deal with burgeoning urban crime was to get rid of police and release criminals without bail.

It hasn’t been landscapers and auto mechanics championing the notion that a child in the single-digit age range can make a lifetime choice about his or her genitalia or maintaining that even criticizing that idea is itself a species of “violence.”

Ordinary Americans haven’t been claiming the way to promote free speech is to censor people or the way to end racism is to classify everyone by race and consequently treat them differently.

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James Simpson is an investigative journalist, businessman and former economist and budget examiner for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

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Joe Biden only hates oil and gas because he doesn’t understand them

n a particularly weird passage of his uninspiring State of the Union address, President Joe Biden went off script and, in contravention of his administration’s policy, called for more oil and gas to be extracted from the Earth.

“Have you noticed Big Oil just reported its profits? Record profits,” Biden said disparagingly. “Last year, they made $200 billion in the midst of a global energy crisis. … Why? They invested too little of that profit to increase domestic production.”

A BANAL FAILURE OF A STATE OF THE UNION

Biden proceeded to argue that the United States needs to pump more crude out of the ground. Perhaps sensing the bizarre contradiction between this and his administration’s oil and gas policies, he then went off script with this: “And when I talked to a couple of them, they say, ‘We’re afraid you’re going to shut down all the oil wells and all the oil refineries anyway, so why should we invest in them?’ I said, ‘We’re going to need oil for at least another decade.’ And that’s going to exceed—”

At this point, Biden was rightly interrupted by derisive laughter from the audience. Seemingly in response, he broke off his next sentence and stated, “And beyond that,” apparently meaning to say oil has at least a little bit longer than 10 years.

If Biden were correct about there being one more decade for oil, it would undermine his demand that companies invest in further production. It would be ridiculous to spend billions of dollars in the lengthy process of oil exploration if the oil economy was going to disappear so soon. Why spend billions if petroleum products will be out of use too soon to make the investment worthwhile?

Biden is, of course, completely off-base with his time estimate. He and his administration are so high on ideology and so low on real-world understanding that they are functionally innumerate. They foresee a quick transition from fossil fuels but have no idea how that can be achieved or how soon.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that domestic oil consumption in 2050 will be more than 10% higher than it is today, and that is probably a lowball estimate. If you are curious whether such a result could come from an aggressive push to put more electric vehicles on the road, think again — or look at the example of Norway, which increased its share of electric vehicles from 1% to 20% between 2014 and 2021. Chemical engineer Robert Rapier recently wrote in Forbes that even this dramatic change resulted in only an 8% cut in Norway’s oil consumption over the same period.

This is like telling environmental activists that Santa isn’t real.

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