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Is the U.S. Really in an Energy Crisis?

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This week on The Lonely Liberal Podcast, we break down whether America’s so-called “Energy Crisis” is truly about skyrocketing demand or a political “Energy Emergency” that props up fossil fuels while sidelining renewables.

Topics covered:
• Why record-breaking power demand from AI, data centers, and reshored factories is real, but our aging grid can’t keep up.
• Trump’s National Energy Emergency Executive Order: what it does, who it helps, and who it leaves out.
• The Big Beautiful Bill’s cuts to clean energy incentives — and how that contradicts the old “All of the Above” energy mantra.
• Who really benefits when fossil fuels get fast-tracked, but new transmission and storage don’t?
• Why blackouts could become 100x more likely if the grid isn’t modernized — and how renewables are part of the solution, not the problem.
• What it means for jobs, prices, and America’s place in the global energy race.

Is this really an unavoidable crisis — or a short-sighted emergency that risks making things worse? Let’s dig in.

  continue reading

54 episodes

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This week on The Lonely Liberal Podcast, we break down whether America’s so-called “Energy Crisis” is truly about skyrocketing demand or a political “Energy Emergency” that props up fossil fuels while sidelining renewables.

Topics covered:
• Why record-breaking power demand from AI, data centers, and reshored factories is real, but our aging grid can’t keep up.
• Trump’s National Energy Emergency Executive Order: what it does, who it helps, and who it leaves out.
• The Big Beautiful Bill’s cuts to clean energy incentives — and how that contradicts the old “All of the Above” energy mantra.
• Who really benefits when fossil fuels get fast-tracked, but new transmission and storage don’t?
• Why blackouts could become 100x more likely if the grid isn’t modernized — and how renewables are part of the solution, not the problem.
• What it means for jobs, prices, and America’s place in the global energy race.

Is this really an unavoidable crisis — or a short-sighted emergency that risks making things worse? Let’s dig in.

  continue reading

54 episodes

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