About four years ago, we launched Energy Tribune. The goal was to be a news aggregator as well as a publisher of original reporting on the global energy sector. Given that this is my last day as the managing editor of ET, here are a few thoughts about what has happened over the past quadrennium:

Where do I go from here? I’m moving on to pursue other opportunities. I will continue my work as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Energy Policy and the Environment. I joined the think tank on April 1, just a few weeks before Power Hungry was published. And I like it. I am bored by partisanship. The Left-Right, Democrat-Republican, Liberal-Conservative divide in America largely results in a win-at-all-costs attitude where facts – and in particular, mathematical and scientific realities – are the first casualties. I am a political independent, a member of the Disgusted Party. And as part of that, I only want to work with the smart people. And there are lots of smart people at Manhattan Institute. In addition, the job gives me a platform where I can focus on the themes that I explored in both Gusher of Lies and Power Hungry: that the myths about “green” energy are largely just that, myths; that hydrocarbons are here to stay; and that if we are going to pursue the best “no regrets” policy with regard to energy, then we should be avidly promoting natural gas and nuclear energy.

In the future, I’ll likely be writing for my own website, robertbryce.com, as well as for other venues that have been publishing my work over the past few years. I may also be contributing an occasional piece to Energy Tribune. See you around.

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