We should be exhaustively searching through the universe of possible sources of energy so that we can provide a diversity of possibilities on the energy front. But we do not believe that anyone has the right to compel people into absolute poverty by increasing energy prices to hypothetically achieve some environmental goal. e went on: “Maximize the short term return and you’re going to produce environmental devastation. That’s exactly what happened, by the way, in Sri Lanka and certainly happened to Germany to some degree as they pursued idiot green policies.