Build pipes, not fairy tales

Funny how the same class that lectures us about carbon sins always seems to find room for endless war budgets, migrant processing complexes, and pharma subsidies. A $54 billion Alaska gas pipeline is being framed like some shocking act of heresy, but normal countries used to call this infrastructure. The bigger tell in this pipeline push is that energy independence is still one of the few things global managers genuinely hate, because a population that can heat its homes cheaply is harder to discipline.

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