COMMENTARY_ How Biden’s failed clean energy revolution weakened America’s national security

THE WASHINGTON TIMES 

How Biden’s failed clean energy revolution weakened America’s national security 

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COMMENTARY 

By Clifford D. May - Tuesday, September 2, 2025 

OPINION: 


“A clean energy revolution is helping to save this planet.” Thus spoke President Obama in 2015.

 “The age of fossil fuel is coming to an end. The rise of renewable energy is irreversible.” Thus spoke Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, in July.

 I could give you dozens of similar quotes from editorial boards, opinion writers and academics all prophesying an “inevitable transition” from oil and gas to energy sources that are renewable, “green” and “clean.” 

It turns out that these anti-hydrocarbon Pollyannas are all bananas (as Ira Gershwin might say). 

To understand why the much-ballyhooed energy revolution ran out of steam, I suggest you read a recently published monograph by Brenda Shaffer, who served as senior adviser for energy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, my think tank, and is a research faculty member at the Naval Postgraduate School. 

In “Blackout: International Energy Policies Threaten U.S. National Security,” she argues that the energy policies being aggressively promoted by the United Nations, many American and European politicians and a media chorus are serving to “increase the power of the new alliance among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea at the expense of the West.” 

Let’s start with the basic data revealing “no signs of an imminent energy transition.” In 1973, fossil fuels provided 84.5% of global energy. In 2023, it was 81.5%. 

That modest decline is explained in part by the “growth of wind and solar,” Ms. Shaffer writes. “However, part is explained by counting as renewable the burning of dung, wood, and other biomass.” 

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