Saifedean Ammous Demolishes Green Energy

Our friend Saif, known to the world as Dr. Saifedean Ammous, joins Jeff and Bob Murphy for a demolition of the pseudo-economics behind Green energy.

Read Saif's The Fiat Standard: https://Mises.org/FiatStandard
Saif's paper "Energy Systems and the Knowledge Problem: The Case of Biofuels": https://Mises.org/SaifEnergy

0:00 Introduction
1:22 Electric Vehicles
4:36 Climate Change Deadlines
8:00 Energy Prices
18:08 Environmentalism vs. Technological Progress
32:42 Saving the Planet or Expanding Gov't Control?
35:13 Energy Storage
48:24 Hydrocarbons and Carbon Dioxide
01:08:09 Can Legislation Solve Climate Change?
01:09:27 What Kind of Energy Emerges on the Free Market?