The Green Libertarian

Stepping on the Same Rake Twice: Europe's Second Energy Crisis in Five Years, and the Lessons Brussels Still Has Not Learned

April 26, 2026 | Categories: energy-transition, policy-analysis, european-energy-policy, fossil-fuel-energy-crisis

Last weekend, as spring was in full swing, the Green Libertarian was over at his brother's house performing his customary gardening duties. The task of the day involved sifting through leaves, rocks, and sand, so he arranged the various tools needed for the job in a careful semicircle around the pile he was working on. Unfortunately, as he walked back and forth with a shovel, he failed to notice that he had left the rake casually propped up against the retaining wall, tines pointing skyward in the manner of a small but very patient mantrap.

"Scheisse," he exclaimed, with the particular cadence reserved for the moment a wooden handle bangs against the forehead. Thankfully, the bump was small. But the lesson was clear: put the damn rake away, lest you step on it again.

Don Trumpijote of Mar-a-Lago: How Trump’s Quixotic War on “Windmills” is Raising Your Electricity Bill

Feb. 28, 2026 | Categories: renewable-energy, climate-policy, energy-economics, energy-transition

Author's note: This article was completed in late February 2026, days before the United States launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran. Since then, oil has surged past $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022, European gas prices have doubled, and the Strait of Hormuz has effectively closed. Everything below about the cost of killing offshore wind just became considerably more urgent.

In which the Don of Mar-a-Lago tilts at offshore wind turbines, gets thrashed 5-0 in court, and manages to raise the very prices he promised to lower.

The Green Libertarian Manifesto

Nov. 1, 2025 | Categories: renewable-energy, climate-policy, energy-economics, market-solutions, energy-transition, policy-analysis

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, but actual free markets where polluters pay their costs.

Let me explain why this matters more than ever in 2025.

Ten years after the Paris Climate Accord promised to limit warming to 1.5°C, we've blown past that target. Global temperatures breached the limit in 2024. Floods, droughts, wildfires, and intensifying storms are no longer future predictions—they're today's headlines.