President Biden just pledged to shut down 60% of America's electric power

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The Biden administration made two virtue-signaling proclamations at last
week’s COP28 conference in Dubai it says will help save the planet from
climate change.

The policies aren’t likely to change the planet’s temperature by even one-
tenth of a degree, but they might just destroy the 21st-century American
industrial economy as we know it.

First, Team Biden announced it will stop production of all new coal plants
in the United States.

This comes on the heels of President Biden’s Environmental Protection
Agency saying this year it would impose new power-plant emission
regulations that are virtually impossible for coal plants to comply with.

The bottom line: no more coal. Period.

But the White House was just getting started.

Vice President Kamala Harris trumpeted the next day new rules to “sharply
reduce methane from the oil and natural gas industry.”

The administration calls methane a “super-pollutant” it wants to eliminate
because it’s “many times more potent than carbon dioxide.”

But methane is effectively a hydrocarbon that comes from natural gas.

Eliminating methane is a de facto ban on natural-gas power plants.

Here is the most sinister part of this story no one in the Biden
administration is telling you: Eradicating coal and natural-gas plants
will ravage America’s electric-power capacity.

These regulations will cause rolling blackouts and brownouts across the
country, much like we’ve already seen in California — America’s forerunner
of radical anti-fossil fuel policies.

The lights will go out intermittently, and home heating in the winter and
air conditioning in the summer will have to be turned off or rationed.

Without gas and coal plants, hospitals, schools, the Internet,
construction projects and factories will be routinely shut down when
unreliable alternative-energy sources like wind and solar power aren’t
delivering enough juice.

Upward of 60% of America’s electric-power generation will go away — and
soon.

Coal still provides roughly 20% of our electric power; natural gas
supplies around 40%.

What will make up for this lost power, especially given that our demands
on the power grid are only going to multiply over the coming years as the
greens want the entire network of cars, trucks and vans to be powered by
charging up on the electric grid?

The Biden administration, in other words, wants to nearly double the
demands on the electric-grid network at the same time it wants to shut
down more than half of the nation’s power generation — and the most
reliable sources at that.

Something must give.

The climate-change groups that crammed into Dubai last week, echoed by
head-in-the-sand politicians like John Kerry, piously advise that
Americans will have to stop taking so many plane trips — especially
overseas — and become less reliant on cars, switching to mass transit or
bicycles instead.

Some people may believe these mandatory sacrifices and rationing of
modern-age conveniences are justified to stave off “catastrophic climate
change.”

Except the shutdown of our coal and natural-gas power plants won’t move
the needle a millimeter on greenhouse-gas emissions — and may make global
CO2 emissions worse, not better.

That’s because by far the biggest emitter of greenhouse-gas emissions —
China — isn’t playing in this climate-change sandbox.

(President Xi Jinping didn’t even attend the conference, and the Chinese
who did were adamant that climate-change concerns aren’t going to
interfere with Beijing’s grandiose economic-expansion plans.)

The coal plants and mines we shut down in places like Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and Wyoming are being replaced two or three times over by newly
built coal-fired plants in India and China.

We shut down one plant; they bring on line two or three new ones.

This math doesn’t add up — especially since we have cleaner coal plants
than China does.

Biden is playing a dangerous game of unilateral energy disarmament.

If he has his way, we will jump off the cliff first in the naïve hope that
China, India, Russia and Europe are right behind us.

Whether intentional or not, this radical green agenda will cripple our
global economic leadership, cost our economy millions of jobs and make
Americans colder in their homes in the winter and hotter in the summer.

Does that seem like a smart way to protect ourselves from the dangers of a
changing climate — real or imagined?

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