Energy 101 with Isaac Orr on The Power Hungry Podcast - Excerpt

<p>“They've had the electricity come on every time they've hit the switch for the last 40 years. So why would they worry about tomorrow the light not coming on?”</p> <p>Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment</p> <p>You can watch the full interview here:</p> <p><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSY79RqsAeY'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSY79RqsAeY</a> </p> <p>The Power Hungry podcast spotlights energy, power, innovation, and politics. Author and journalist Robert Bryce talks with top thinkers, writers, and influencers — as well as regular citizens. Subscribe at <a href='https://robertbryce.com/power-hungry-podcast/'>https://robertbryce.com/power-hungry-podcast/</a> and follow Robert’s work <a href='https://twitter.com/pwrhungry'>https://twitter.com/pwrhungry</a>.</p> <p>Isaac Orr is a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, where he writes about environmental issues, mining, and electricity. In his second appearance on the podcast (his first was on August 10, 2021), Orr talks about the importance of the Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA ruling, why utilities are keeping their coal plants open this summer, how renewables are undermining the integrity of the electric grid, and the looming shortfalls of generation capacity in the Midwest. You can follow Issac’s work at: <a href='https://twitter.com/TheFrackingGuy'>https://twitter.com/TheFrackingGuy</a>.</p> <p>Transcript</p> <p>Energy 101 definition of energy is energy is the ability to do work.</p> <p>And when you make energy more difficult to get or make it more expensive, you're making it more difficult to do work or more expensive to do work, whether that's heating your house, plowing a field, growing your food.</p> <p>So when we enact all these energy policies that intentionally make energy more scarce or more expensive, it ripples through every aspect of the economy.</p> <p>In some ways you can write it off as rational ignorance.</p> <p>They've had the electricity come on every time they've hit the switch for