Posted on 07/10/2020 4:50:06 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
The Biden (and Sanders and AOC) Climate plan is out, and boy is it a doozy. Make no mistake about this: Joe Biden might be the nominee and official face of the Democrat Party in this general election, but the Party has been fully taken over by the partys radical, outright Marxist wing. At best, Biden is nothing more than a sock puppet; at worst, a willing co-conspirator.
Yesterdays release by the Biden Campaigns unity task force on climate led by AOC is manifest proof of that reality. The plan, such as it is, is written in the soft, soothing language of the radical climate alarmist movement, but its vision is one of pure Soviet-style command-and-control forcing of change that is not even technologically feasible, much less financially affordable.
All you really need to know about this plan is who conceived it:
On climate change, the two candidates and their supporters had some serious divides to bridge. Over the course of nine months of primary debates, Biden touted his plan to build 500,000 electric vehicle chargers and put his faith in American exceptionalism while Sanders bashed fossil fuel executives and promoted the Green New Deal. To try to find a middle ground, Sanders appointed Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sunrise Movement co-founder Varshini Prakash, and Catherine Flowers, the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, to the joint climate task force. Biden selected former Secretary of State John Kerry, former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy, and former Biden policy advisor Kerry Duggan, along with two members of Congress.
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Oh. Guess who did most of the writing? That would be Ms. Prakash, a committed radical whose Sunrise Movement is just another front group for George Soros:
Prakash wrote about her experience on the task force on Twitter on Wednesday, explaining that she had two goals: to push Biden to increase his ambition on climate change in terms of timelines and benchmarks, and to place environmental and climate justice at the heart of all of Bidens climate policies.
On Prakashs first goal, there was certainly some success. Previously, Bidens climate policies centered around achieving 100 percent clean electricity by 2050. The task force shaved 15 years off that goal. It also came up with a slew of closer, more specific benchmarks: Within five years, make all school buses electric and help spur retrofits of 4 million buildings by unlocking private sector funding and setting efficiency standards, and by 2030, zero out the carbon footprint of all new buildings.
As for Prakashs second goal, she applauded Bidens commitment to putting environmental justice at the heart of his climate policy agenda by directing federal funds to disadvantaged communities, ending pollution & toxic waste sites, and creating mitigation strategies and rebuilding from disaster in just and equitable ways.
We are leaving these discussions with policies that, if implemented, will make Joe Bidens climate agenda far more powerful, equitable, and urgent than where his plans were just weeks ago, she tweeted.
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So, what do you think the term unlocking private sector funding means? It means massive new taxes on businesses and the middle class, and those taxes on businesses will all be passed along to consumers, harming the poorest among us the most. Because thats what leftism in any form always does. What does directing federal funds mean? It means redistributing the wealth away from the GOP voter base to the Democrat voter base, because again, thats what leftism in any form always means.
Theyre going to make all school buses electric by 2025: Whos going to foot that bill, to the extent it will be footed with anything other than trillions in new debt? Look in the mirror.
And by the way, the plan itself refers to those electric buses as zero carbon vehicles. They arent. Not even close.
The average EV is overwhelmingly made of plastics, because that is the lightest-weight material Tesla and other manufacturers have available to reduce the weight of the cars in their efforts to maximize their driving range on a single battery charge. Guess where plastics come from? That nasty old oil. The tires on a Tesla are no different than the tires on a Jaguar or a Ford: Largely made from petroleum products.
Many of the battery charging stations you see in your cities are actually powered by generators fueled by diesel or natural gas, a secret the industry doesnt like to talk about. The rest are powered by the same electricity grid from which you receive power in your home or office.
What do you think generates that electricity? The answer is power plants. In many states, the majority of that electricity is generated by burning coal. In Texas, where I live, most of the power comes from natural gas power plants, although coal provides a significant amount as well.
So, what is climate gain will be seen from spending hundreds of billions of dollars on half a million electric buses? Basically, zero. It could even end up being a net negative given that we havent even talked about all the emissions involved in the manufacture of those buses and the parts that go into them. That all requires the generation of power from some source, and those factories are most often powered from the local electric grid or from separate generators fueled by diesel or natural gas. Most of them also now put up small arrays of prominently-placed solar panels for show.
But understand: None of this is really about the environment or the climate. Its about control. More specifically, its about socialism, and using the climate as a means of justifying its implementation and full takeover of the federal and state governments in America.
The very same principle applies to every other aspect of the AOC plan that was released yesterday. It is just the Green New Deal put into more flowery and obfuscating terms. None of it is even possible from a technological standpoint, and it is certainly not affordable.
But to these central planners, thats fine, because those arent the real goals and objectives at play here.
That is all.
Maybe a cartoon of Biden in the backseat of a car in a floppy hat with AOC and Sanders upfront driving.
Driving Miss Joey
If we the people, the average American can see through these so-called “green climate plans” that can never work...then how is it the same idiots who keep dreaming up this stuff can’t understand it & why do they keep getting re-elected? They should have shrunk from shame & disappeared a long time ago. The country can never truly move forward with these idiots in charge.
The green climate plans will work. They will revert the economy to the 19th century without the consolations of coal-burning factories or trains and without wood-burning indoor fireplaces and cookstoves. The elite will get some electricity from wind and solar. The rest of us of course must pay 21st century taxes in absolute-dollar terms on our 19th-century economic output. Tax rates will approach and may exceed 100% of income for most Americans. All that great tasty beef from the vast herds on the Plains? Meat will be illegal too, as will dairy products. (Some exceptions will be available for certain high-ranking Communists.) Moreover, our civil liberties never shall return, so don’t even think of speaking against the new regime.
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