Go to Texas to see the anti-green future of clean energy | The Economist

Lessons for liberals from climate-sceptic wind ranchers

Business | Schumpeter Go to Texas to see the anti-green future of clean energy Lessons for liberals from climate-sceptic wind ranchers Jan 12th 2023 Share F or more than 140 years John Davis’s family has owned the Pecan Spring Ranch on the prairie lands of West Texas . He has a photo of his great-great-grandmother, known as “the sheep queen of Texas”, sitting in a horse-drawn carriage beneath a tree that still stands in front of the hay barn. It’s a tough business to maintain, even with a valuable herd of Wagyu beef cattle to raise. Yet when a renewable-energy developer offered Mr Davis a larg

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