The Green Surrender. Column: How Progressive energy policy weakens America

[zinn]

I sometimes wonder which policy of President Biden's has been or will be
the most destructive of them all. There are so many possibilities.

The American Rescue Plan of 2021 contributed to the record inflation of
the past year. Biden's reversal of the Migration Protection Protocols,
safe third country agreements, and other immigration policies enacted by
the previous administration resulted in historic numbers of illegal
entries along the southern border. The withdrawal from Afghanistan
abandoned a nation of 39 million people to a murderous, medieval,
terrorist-aligned mafia. Biden has pursued a renewed nuclear agreement
with Iran despite that regime's support for militias that fire on U.S.
troops, plots to kill U.S. officials on U.S. soil, and ultimate
responsibility for the assault on Salman Rushdie. Just the other day,
Biden announced a complex, unconstitutional, regressive, and inflationary
scheme to forgive student debt. The words "moral hazard" are not in his
vocabulary.

Like I said: There are plenty of options for which Biden policy is the
worst. Yet his biggest folly may turn out to be his green thumb. The manic
Progressive quest to eliminate fossil fuels and preside over a "green
energy transition" will make America dependent, unstable, poorer, needier,
and weaker. Indeed, it already is doing so.

Biden reentered the Paris Climate Agreement, canceled the Keystone
Pipeline, stopped energy leasing on federal property, suspended leases to
drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and spent hundreds of
billions on green energy projects in last year's Bipartisan Infrastructure
Deal and this year's Inflation Reduction Act. He wants to halve carbon
dioxide emissions from 2005 levels by 2030 and "achieve a net-zero economy
by 2050."

Problem: You can't achieve these goals without massively raising energy
prices for everyday consumers. Sure enough, as gas prices went up over the
course of his term, Biden attacked the oil giants, pleaded with OPEC to
pump more oil, tried to make nice with autocracies in Venezuela and Iran,
and brought the Strategic Petroleum Reserve down to its lowest level since
1985. Recently the cost of a gallon of regular has ticked down and
President Biden's job approval rating has ticked up. Of course, if Biden,
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and California governor Gavin
Newsom (D.) have their way, in the coming decades there won't be any cars
with combustion engines to fuel.

Newsom's California offers a glimpse of the future. Not long after Golden
State regulators announced a plan to forbid the sale of new gasoline-
powered cars by 2035, and state legislators passed $54 billion in climate-
related spending, officials declared a state of emergency and warned of
rolling blackouts. As government-subsidized and meteorologically
unreliable solar and wind energy displaces oil, gas, and nuclear on the
electric grid, consumers must reduce usage and prepare for the worst.
Among the ironies: To take pressure off the grid, commuters won't be able
to charge their soon-to-be-government-mandated electric vehicles during
peak hours. Stuck at home thanks to the clean energy economy? You can
always hitch a ride on a black-market gas guzzler.

Biden's and Newsom's goals, plans, and mandates may seem abstract. Their
timetables may extend long into the future. But as Richard Nixon's
favorite NFL coach liked to say, the future is now. It cannot be a
coincidence that California's population declines as its government
becomes more expensive and more intrusive, as zoning and environmental
regulations increase the cost of living. The top destination for
Californians is Texas. While the Longhorn State has electric grid problems
of its own, its authorities believe in cheap energy from every possible
source. The Texas economy is growing, along with its population.

The same can't be said of Europe. The continent's climate solipsism is
more acute than California's. Its dilemma is therefore more serious. The
push for green energy in the United Kingdom and in Europe, along with
decades of antinuclear paranoia in Germany, has left millions dependent on
natural gas supplied by Russia. In the 1970s, Arab and Iranian governments
wielded the oil weapon to wreak havoc around the globe. In the 2020s,
Russia uses the gas weapon to extort its neighbors, fund its war machine,
and threaten NATO with cutoffs, price hikes, shortages, inflation,
political instability, and deaths from bitter cold.

Sanctions on the Russian economy over its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine
have neither brought the war to an end nor Moscow to the negotiating
table. European leaders project an uneasy confidence about what lies
ahead. "Even if it gets tight," said Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor,
on September 1, "we will probably get through the winter."

Probably?

This situation was not inevitable. But it was predictable. Europe's
vulnerability is the consequence of swearing off oil and gas and nuclear
energy in the quixotic pursuit of environmental purity. It is what happens
when government plans collide with geopolitical realities. Europeans are
paying the price for elevating Greta Thunberg over Elon Musk. The price
may soon get higher.

I don't deny global warming. And I am open to policies that reduce carbon
emissions and that—most importantly—encourage technological innovations
and adaptations to a changing world. You won't get anywhere by mandating
the substitution of one form of energy over another. Instead, you should
explore the alternatives while sustaining the very basis of global
commerce: cheap and plentiful carbon energy.

The best thing President Biden could do for the American economy, the
American worker, and the world would be to drop his antipathy to carbon
fuels. Resume leasing on public lands and waters. Approve pipelines,
deregulate biofuels mandates to increase refinery capacity, and make good
on the promise to reform permits. Above all, finance the construction of
as many nuclear plants as possible. Why cede energy dominance to hostile
nations? Now is not the time to impose limits. It's time to power up.

Published under: Biden Administration, California, Energy, Feature, Gavin
Newsom, Global Warming, Green Energy, Natural Gas

https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-green-surrender/

[BeamMeUpScotty]

And the root to it all is Marxism and Communism as seen in the Communism
of the ANTIFA THUGS and the Marxism of the #BLM drive to create civil
unrest and violence to fuel the Marxist revolution of chaos that will
create change,at least that's what the Communists and Marxists
believe.... Read Karl Marx and the others And they explain that change
comes through the pain and suffering so they plan to create as much pain
and suffering as it takes to usher in the NEW ERA of the AUTHORITARIAN
21st CENTURY.


The same as last century where the Communists and Marxists and
Authoritarians like Hitler and Joseph Stalin and the Chinese began the
Century trying to spread Authoritarian Communism...

You have to remember that FREEDOM is a delicate balance between the
people and the ever Authoritarian Government that seeks to have total
power.... All Government is authoritarian which is why you need a
strong constitution to limit the GOVERNMENT powers.


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-That's Karma-

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