Africa Needs Conventional Fuels, Not Windmills and Solar Panels

Tags: Bureaucracy and Regulation, Free Markets, Inflation, War and Foreign Policy

08/18/2022 Manuel Tacanho

Western elites are using Africa as their little laboratory for renewable energy schemes. Not surprisingly, these initiatives leave Africans in poverty and their economies in tatters.

Original Article: “Africa Needs Conventional Fuels, Not Windmills and Solar Panels”

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