Opinion | Putin's New Cold War: Freeze Europe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : In a world of growing, energy-hungry middle classes in Asia, Africa and Latin America, it takes huge amounts of new clean energy to make even a small dent in our overall energy mix.
58% : In America alone in 2021, about 61 percent of electricity generation was from fossil fuels (primarily coal and natural gas) while about 19 percent was from nuclear energy and about 20 percent was from renewable energy sources.
57% : This column has been devoted for 27 years to advocating clean energy and mitigating climate change.
56% : If we want to get oil and gas prices down to reasonably low levels to power the U.S. economy and, at the same time, help our European allies escape the vice grip of Russia while we all also accelerate clean energy production -- call it our "Energy Triad" -- we need that transition plan that balances climate security, energy security and economic security.
56% : "Many of the best places to develop clean power are far-flung deserts and plains," the story added, "but stringing power lines to reach them can take a decade or more because of approvals needed from state agencies, the federal government and private landowners.
55% : Despite all the wind and solar investments in the past five years, fossil fuels -- oil, gas and coal -- still accounted for 82 percent of total world primary energy use in 2021 (required for things like heating, transportation and electricity generation), down only three percentage points in those five years.
39% : But I can't -- not unless the U.S. and its Western allies stop living in a green fantasy world that says we can go from dirty fossil fuels to clean renewable energy by just flipping a switch.
35% : He's going to try to literally freeze the European Union this winter by choking off supplies of Russian gas and oil to pressure the E.U. into abandoning Ukraine.

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