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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jan 28, 2021, 1:48:41 PM1/28/21
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Further dashing hopes that he’d govern as any kind of moderate, President
Biden on Wednesday announced plans for what amounts to the Green New Deal
by another name, at a cost of roughly $2 trillion and millions of jobs.
The left pretends its dreams will boost employment, but the reality is
already on display. Biden’s Day One canceling of the Keystone XL pipeline
put thousands out of work immediately; longer-term, it aborted some 11,000
jobs, mostly for union workers.
Also in his first day, the new prez ordered a 60-day suspension of new
drilling permits for US lands and water, supposedly to allow for review of
the impact. But on Wednesday he made much of that ban permanent, so
plainly the science doesn’t really matter.
Then again, science isn’t mattering a lot to Joe: In the absence of
Keystone, Canada will still export its oil — transporting it by less-
environmentally friendly rail. What’s green about that?
Economics is out the window, too. The American Petroleum Institute
estimates the drilling ban will cost the US economy $700 billion and kill
nearly a million jobs by the end of next year.
So much for Biden’s talk in the fall campaign of moderating his green
agenda while the nation recovers from the pandemic’s economic damage.
The special envoy on climate issues, John Kerry, sniffs at the costs of
“what needs to be done” — even as he admits that taking the US to zero
carbon emissions tomorrow (rather than by 2050 as the president vows)
wouldn’t remotely stop climate change.
To do that, someone has to persuade China, India and other still-
developing nations to go zero-carbon, too. Kerry may get them to offer
rhetorical promises in exchange for massive US concessions (that’s his
specialty, after all), but there’s no way they’ll damage their own
economies just to please nattering Western buffoons.
Not that climate change is the Armageddon threat that Biden & Co. pretend:
If current trends continue, the harm from global warming etc. would only
slice a fraction off global economic growth through century’s end.
Adding to the unfairness: Because the moratorium only bans new leases,
large companies that stockpiled approvals in Trump’s last months will have
some time to catch up, but smaller businesses will be left in the dust.
As for the politics: Some pretend only Trump states will suffer. But in
New Mexico alone the oil and gas industry supports 100,000 jobs, with half
its production on federal land.
Better if the prez had stuck to basically symbolic actions, like honoring
the spirit of the Paris climate accord rather than rejoining it. Paris’
fine print requires exponentially rising energy costs and lunatic
subsidies; economists estimate it will cost the US millions of jobs over
the next decade.
Yet because it demands little of China etc., the deal will only decrease
average global temperatures by 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. Lots of
Western pain; trivial world gain.
They told us defeating President Donald Trump would get the crazy out of
Washington. Instead, the madness has moved from Twitter to the center of
policy-making.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
with-far-left-climate-plan/
Further dashing hopes that he’d govern as any kind of moderate, President
Biden on Wednesday announced plans for what amounts to the Green New Deal
by another name, at a cost of roughly $2 trillion and millions of jobs.
The left pretends its dreams will boost employment, but the reality is
already on display. Biden’s Day One canceling of the Keystone XL pipeline
put thousands out of work immediately; longer-term, it aborted some 11,000
jobs, mostly for union workers.
Also in his first day, the new prez ordered a 60-day suspension of new
drilling permits for US lands and water, supposedly to allow for review of
the impact. But on Wednesday he made much of that ban permanent, so
plainly the science doesn’t really matter.
Then again, science isn’t mattering a lot to Joe: In the absence of
Keystone, Canada will still export its oil — transporting it by less-
environmentally friendly rail. What’s green about that?
Economics is out the window, too. The American Petroleum Institute
estimates the drilling ban will cost the US economy $700 billion and kill
nearly a million jobs by the end of next year.
So much for Biden’s talk in the fall campaign of moderating his green
agenda while the nation recovers from the pandemic’s economic damage.
The special envoy on climate issues, John Kerry, sniffs at the costs of
“what needs to be done” — even as he admits that taking the US to zero
carbon emissions tomorrow (rather than by 2050 as the president vows)
wouldn’t remotely stop climate change.
To do that, someone has to persuade China, India and other still-
developing nations to go zero-carbon, too. Kerry may get them to offer
rhetorical promises in exchange for massive US concessions (that’s his
specialty, after all), but there’s no way they’ll damage their own
economies just to please nattering Western buffoons.
Not that climate change is the Armageddon threat that Biden & Co. pretend:
If current trends continue, the harm from global warming etc. would only
slice a fraction off global economic growth through century’s end.
Adding to the unfairness: Because the moratorium only bans new leases,
large companies that stockpiled approvals in Trump’s last months will have
some time to catch up, but smaller businesses will be left in the dust.
As for the politics: Some pretend only Trump states will suffer. But in
New Mexico alone the oil and gas industry supports 100,000 jobs, with half
its production on federal land.
Better if the prez had stuck to basically symbolic actions, like honoring
the spirit of the Paris climate accord rather than rejoining it. Paris’
fine print requires exponentially rising energy costs and lunatic
subsidies; economists estimate it will cost the US millions of jobs over
the next decade.
Yet because it demands little of China etc., the deal will only decrease
average global temperatures by 0.09 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. Lots of
Western pain; trivial world gain.
They told us defeating President Donald Trump would get the crazy out of
Washington. Instead, the madness has moved from Twitter to the center of
policy-making.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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