Alternative Energy Should Not Be Pursued Summary

In “Alternative Energy should not be Pursued” the author has a few areas in which he struggles. First, his language is emotionally charged at times. He is never overtly emotional, but at times it manages to find sneak into the argument. For example, he depicts advocates of renewable energy as being idealists and unreasonable. The author depicts them as idealists when he says that advocates of renewable energy “believe that they could power the world without producing harmful greenhouse gases.” While in the next sentence he paints Jerry Taylor and Peter VanDoren to be logical and intelligent as they “argue” against renewables. Later in the article the author discusses how advocates of renewable energy argue that resources should be priced based