... We find a useful referee in this war of words with the recently released Eye on the Market 15th Annual Energy Paper by Michael Cembalest, J. P. Morgan's chairman of market and investment strategy. As this 70-slide, deep-dive report pointedly notes, "after $9 trillion globally over the last decade spent on wind, solar, electric vehicles, energy storage, electrified heat and power grids, the renewable transition is still a linear one; the renewable share of final energy consumption is slowly advancing at 0.3%"0.6% per year [emphasis added]." One does not need a mathematics degree to understand that such anemic growth rates are not the hallmarks of an "unstoppable" juggernaut. Hence, Cembalest's bottom line: "Growth in fossil fuel consumption is slowing but no clear sign of a peak on a global basis." That is to say, no "energy transition" is in sight
#5 Lamplighter,
I disagree with how you've framed it, although you are not far off the mark.
In the Constitution the executive branch powers ultimately reside in POTUS.
Unfortunately, over the past several decades congress has continued to cede its own powers via overly broad and ambiguous legislation that gives inordinate powers to the Executive to implement.
So now, POTUS has an outsized segment of the separation of powers.
This means, staffing of bureaucrats and unelected agencies dictate law, to a far too significant extent IMO.
Given the governmental power imbalance that has taken place and has crept forward since WWII it means POTUS has an imbalance of power.
Now, let's 'circle back' to Article II of the Constitution... With this imbalance in place the Executive controls almost ALL of these agencies.
Which means they are NOT independent and never have been. Right now, we have reached a point where 'lawmaking' is done far more by unelected bureaucrats than by elected officials
It needs to be drawn back. I don't know how we get there but blistering hatred of Trump might be a start - he's using ALL of the powers gifted to POTUS over the past few decades.