The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 507
The Immorality of Arguing That There's a Moral Case
for Fossil Fuels
Originally published February 19, 2018
In 2014, a young man named Alex Epstein - who's described as a "philosopher,
energy theorist, and industrial policy pundit" - wrote a book titled "The Moral
Case For Fossil Fuels."
Alex used this book to springboard to a career arguing the merits of his case on
a website, magazine articles, YouTube videos and live debates. His website
states that Alex will "accept a debate any time, any place." (I'll get back to this
challenge later on).
Also, in 2014, Kathleen Hartnett White wrote a short book titled "Fossil Fuels:
The Moral Case." Kathleen has held a number of very senior positions with
government agencies and industry groups as an environment and energy expert.
Kathleen followed up on this book in 2016 with another book, "Fueling Freedom:
Exposing the Mad War on Energy," that she co-authored with Stephen Moore.
Mr. Moore is also described on the Internet as an "economics and energy expert."
Kathleen rode these two books and her previous positions to a presidential
nomination a few months ago to become the White House senior advisor on
