Consume Plastic and Frack Wells for a Better Planet

Energy and Capital editor Christian DeHaemer makes the case for why recycling plastic and supporting the Green New Deal does not, in fact, make you an environmentalist. The real way to support the environment has nothing to do with ending fracking... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Energy and Capital. [Click here]( to manage your e-mail preferences. [Energy and Capital logo] Consume Plastic and Frack Wells for a Better Planet [Christian DeHaemer Photo] By [Christian DeHaemer]( Written Feb. 26, 2019 As a Boy Scout and long-distance hiker, I considered myself an environmentalist growing up. My family camped in national parks around the country. The last thing I do when leaving a campsite is make sure the fire is cold and pick up any trash, including tiny scraps and cigarette butts left by the last campers. Heck, I’ll even put aluminum cans and sometimes even plastic in recycling. Though I do the latter because I don’t have the time or energy to explain to some shrieking harpy that plastic isn’t cost effective for recycling and, since China stopped taking it last year, that it goes into landfills. In many states, even mixed paper has a negative value. According to the NY Times, one major recycler in Oregon has told its customers to put everything in the trash except for corrugated cardboard, milk jugs, newspapers, and tin and aluminum cans. In fact, recycling stuff that can’t be recycled costs more money and means more stuff is put in the landfill. Recycling experts call it “aspirational recycling,” or “wishcycling.” From the Baltimore Sun: “People are thinking they’re doing the right thing,” said Michael Taylor, director of recycling operations for the industry giant Waste Management. “Our message is, when in doubt, throw it out.” That’s right. Recyclers want you to throw more stuff out... This Could Replace Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas Within the Next 10 Years Late last year, a team of Army scientists discovered the secret to "endless clean energy." It's cheaper than oil, coal, and natural gas (NG) and also more efficient than solar, wind, geothermal, or any other alternative energy you could think of! With companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook already investing billions of dollars in it, it could easily become the dominant fuel source on the planet in less than a decade. And there's [one tiny $4 company leading the charge]( in this energy revolution, which primes it for 1,587% gains! [Click here for the full story!]( Doomsday Cult Environmentalism has become a doomsday cult. It’s about scaring people so politicians can gain power and money. Vice President Al Gore made over $100 million by investing in green companies that received favorable government treatment, companies like Solyndra that later went bankrupt. The new socialist “it” girl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to spend four times GDP on a Green New Deal. This is amazingly ambitious for a group that had to take down its Green New Deal website due to mistakes. Bloomberg is reporting that all of the Green New Deal giveaways would cost $93 trillion over 10 years. That is over four times annual U.S. GDP. Ridiculous. People can’t even build a convincing argument that climate change is real, is caused by humans, and can be solved. Germans Make Good Stuff They tried a big green initiative in Germany that was funded by a tax on energy of more than $20 billion a year and subsidies of $800 billion. It is true that renewables climbed to 30% of energy use, up from 7% in 2008, but emissions didn’t decline that much. Why? Because the Germans, in their infinite wisdom, got rid of their clean nuclear power and had to make up the shortfall in coal. Coal now produces 37% of the country's power. In fact, in 2016, seven of the 10 worst polluting facilities in Europe were German lignite plants. Not only that, but Germans pay out the nose for electricity — 33.1 cents a kilowatt-hour on average. I pay 7.7 cents here in Maryland. That's absurd. It should be noted that German GDP was $3.752 trillion in 2008 when the green initiative was created. In 2017, it was $3.677 trillion. That’s a decade of stagnation, worse emissions, and higher costs across the board. In other words, its green initiative has been an abject failure. Unintended Consequences There is always some portion of the population that, when confronted with a problem, real or imagined, always wants to “do something.” Even if that something is counterproductive. They don’t get that humans are nothing more that smart apes banging on stuff with a crowbar. Sure, sometimes it works. But you can’t tell me that climate change — a problem with billions, nay, trillions of inputs — can be solved by a handful of well-meaning politicians and actresses who graduated from the Sony Pictures Between-Takes High School. Heck, they don’t even know what they are trying to solve, much less how to do it. I do know that all their solutions, coincidentally, give them more power and money. Take, for example, the United States. Ten years ago, the environmentalists were screaming about the evils of fracking. There were movies with flames coming out of kitchen sinks and big news stories on earthquakes and fracking poisoning the water table. But here is the deal as reported by the EPA: Reported total Green House Gas (GHG) emissions declined by 2.7 percent since 2016. Reported emissions from large power plants declined 4.5 percent since 2016, and 19.7 percent since 2011. Carbon dioxide emissions from the U.S. power sector are predicted to continue to decline, with a decrease projected of 34% below 2005 levels. How can this be? The U.S. didn't sign the Paris Accord. It's because fracking produces a huge amount of low-cost, clean-burning natural gas. This has replaced coal in power stations. The U.S. LNG exports are also set to boom — not because of environmentalist, but in spite of them. LEAKED: Government Document Reveals Trump’s Plan to Pay Supporters $7,492 We’ve just discovered a [special income loophole in a leaked government document](. And anyone who takes advantage of this loophole can rake in fat checks like $3,384... $4,982... and even $7,492 — month after month! But there’s an urgent March 8th deadline to grab your share of these huge cash payouts. [Click here now to see the government document yourself and claim your first check as soon as the next batch goes out.]( Emerging Markets vs. Developed Markets Developed markets produce less pollution than emerging markets. You only have to get off the plane in Beijing or Mumbai to realize this simple fact. But here is an academic chart anyway: [Lower Emissions] In the U.S. and the EU, emissions are down. They are up in India and China and the rest of the world. If you want emissions lower, the best way would be to turn India and China into advanced economies, from emerging markets into developed markets. In other words, make them rich. To do that, you must buy their products. The more you consume, the more wealthy and educated they will become. In this way, they will pass through low-level industrial production to higher-level, cleaner service industries. More money also means more childhood nutrition, which equates to higher IQ and more education. This, in turn, will lead to concern about the environment. While we are waiting for this, the U.S. should export its surplus natural gas and high-yielding coal to replace Asian reliance on soft brown coal in power plants. It would do far more for this planet than anything AOC comes up with, and because these methods are profitable, they will not only cost nothing but will also [pay you a nice dividend](. So the next time some Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging do-gooder tells you to recycle that yogurt cup, sit down and patiently explain to them that they are wrong. The way to a better planet is to consume more plastic and frack more wells. All the best, [Christian DeHaemer Signature] Christian DeHaemer [[follow basic]@TheDailyHammer on Twitter]( Since 1995, Christian DeHaemer has specialized in frontier market opportunities. He has traveled extensively and invested in places as varied as Cuba, Mongolia, and Kenya. 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