The Case Against Supply-Side Liberalism Is Weak

Building a clean energy economy requires constructing gargantuan amounts of new infrastructure. Maintaining a carbon economy, by contrast, requires building scarcely any, since the existing energy system is built around the needs and capacities of fossil fuels. A permitting system biased toward the status quo is therefore one that is biased toward carbon energy. As of 2021, NEPA reviews were holding up twice as many green projects as fossil fuel ones.