The Green Libertarian

The Green Libertarian Manifesto

The climate activists have it backwards. They want to overthrow capitalism to save the planet. The fossil fuel industry wants to preserve capitalism by denying the crisis exists. Both are wrong—and their battle is destroying any chance of actually solving the problem.

Here's the heresy: Free markets can solve the climate crisis faster than any revolution. Not the rigged markets we have now, b

A Charged day in Viana do Castelo : A Portuguese EV Trip Cautionary Tale (Part 3)

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The next few days were uneventful. That is to say, I was finally on holiday and enjoying life without having to think about where to obtain the next electrons. I did, however, discover that the campsite where I was staying had a charger, and I took advantage of it on my last day there. The only caveat was that it was an extremely slow one. I honestly just wanted to top up before making the drive north, but even though I was connected for over two hour......

The Energiewende Katastrophe: How to Spend €520 Billion on a Clean Future and Still Burn Coal

Picture this. It's October 2025. As the wind turbines sit still and solar panels languish under a grey autumn sky, Germany is in dire need of electricity. The bureaucrats in Berlin and Brussels are trading blows over building new gas capacity. Meanwhile, coal, supposedly a relic of the dirty past, has temporarily won this fight. This is not the green clean future Germa......

The Solar Revolution: How Communist China Used Capitalism to Outcompete the West and Bring Cheap Green Electricity to Millions

This week, at the 30th United Nations climate change conference (COP30) in the Amazonian city of Belém, while the United States sulked at home, delegates from Thailand to Tanzania queued up to enter the Chinese pavilion, by far the largest in the conference hall. They weren't lining up for souvenir Chinese flags or pictures of President Xi. Th......

An anti-capitalism own goal: How the Trump Administration's war on US East Coast Offshore Wind is driving up the cost of electricity for Northeast consumers

"Windmills are driving whales crazy", "they are not truly green", the current occupant of the White House has said at the beginning of the year as he was about to take office. Nearly a year later, amid record rises in retail electricity prices, it's the Trump administration's systematic attempts to undermine offshore wind development on the US East Coast that is driving peop

'Eppur si muove!' : A Portuguese EV Trip Cautionary Tale (Part 2)

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I woke up next morning in my tent with a distinct feeling that I was on holiday. A feeling that quickly dissipated when I poked my head out and realised that my car - which I'd been half expecting to be parked next to the tent - was not there.

When Push Comes to Shove: A Portuguese EV Trip Cautionary Tale (Part 1)

I could barely see the incline in the road ahead. Glancing down on my navigation I saw that the magical lightning bold icon was just over that hill. The battery level indicator flashing red. “Vai!, one more hill, we can make it”, yelled out. Unfortunately, not today. The engine sputtered as the half ton EV ground to a halt…. Sounds like a film script? No, this is wh