America's New Energy Crisis -- WSJ -- July 31, 2022

A reader sent me the link to a WSJ article to post. 

This was my reply:

I was eager to read the article when I saw the headline yesterday, but was quite disappointed in the tone of the article. So much was wrong with the article.

It appears today's journalists have a pre-conceived notion about energy and then write articles like this one to push their agenda. This reads more like an op-ed than a news story.

I'm not sure how to handle it on the blog: simply post it without comment or post my thoughts? The problem is, it would take up too much of my time.

I think I will post the link and move on. Too much other stuff to cover. 

The writer, Christopher M Matthews has a resume to give him the credibility to write the article but somehow he missed the mark. 

Okay, two three four five six seven comments: 

The article reads like it will be a chapter in a new book yet to be written. There is nothing new in the article.  

At the end of the day, it comes down to making American great again or following Greta down the wind-turbined road. The latter won't succeed of course, and a 79-year-old political relic won't be able to thread the needle. 

But this is simply amazing: the US shale revolution was the biggest energy story in decades, perhaps the biggest energy story ever. There are hundreds of oil men and women that made it happen, and scores of shale companies that were instrumental in the success of the shale revolution, and how does Matthews cover it? It seems a third of the article was devoted to one inconsequential shale company: Bonanza Creek Energy. To say I was flabbergasted would be an understatement. What about Chesapeake, Continental Resources, Pioneer, Devon, EOG, to name just a few?

The author glosses over huge missteps made by the Biden administration and is less than candid about how Biden literally keystoned America and continues to gaslight voters.

I'm getting tired of the meme, "... gasoline prices have fallen to less than $4.30 a gallon ..." Prices never should have gotten above four dollars to begin with. Bragging that gasoline has fallen to less than $4.30 a gallon is gaslighting. What was the price we paid just a couple of years ago? $1.99? What happened in less than eighteen months? The writer provides no historical perspective on the price of gasoline, except in passing just before he started writing about Bonanza Energy Creek.

Do a single-word article search, do a word-search for "refineries" in the article. Not mentioned once. 

Talk about a very, very unsatisfying conclusion to the article.