Benjamin Zycher at Real Clear Markets takes the NYT to task for its stupid article about fossil fuel infrastructure, awarding it The Dumbest New York Times Op-Ed of 2021. Of course there are many months left for NYT to publish even worse inanities this year. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. I have reorganized the content to juxtapose the wild claims with sober facts.
Summer still is weeks away, but already we have a winner in the fierce competition for the coveted title of “Dumbest New York Times opinion column of 2021.” The envelope please… and the winner is “Why Charles Koch Wins When Our Energy System Breaks Down,” by someone named Christopher Leonard. One really does have to read this column to grasp — actually, to marvel at — the inanity of Leonard’s argument, which can be summarized as follows.
Claim:
Our fossil-fuel infrastructure — pipelines in particular…
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