Sen. Whitehouse's attacks on fossil energy producers are incoherent

It might seem difficult to take positions on a prominent issue diametrically opposed and equally preposterous. But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a man whose Pavlovian opposition to the U.S. fossil energy producers has led him into incoherence rare even by Beltway standards, has achieved just such a magical trick.

Whitehouse, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, for years has accused the major U.S. fossil energy producers of creating the purported climate “crisis” and hiding their knowledge of and deceiving the public about the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. Translation: For decades, the U.S. fossil energy sector has produced too much energy and thus too many greenhouse gas emissions.