Posted on 12/19/2019 7:55:11 PM PST by Olog-hai
Former Vice Preisdent Joe Biden made clear at Thursday night’s Democratic presidential primary debate that he’d sacrifice economic growth due to a boom in oil and natural gas production and potentially risk displacing hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers in order to combat climate change.
Moderator Tim Alberta asked: “Three consecutive American presidents have enjoyed stints of explosive economic growth due to a boom in oil and natural gas production. As president, would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers in the interest of transitioning to that greener economy?”
“The answer is yes,” the former vice president said.
But Biden — the front-runner in national polling in the Democratic nomination race — emphasized that “the opportunity for those workers to transition to high-paying jobs … is real.”
“We’re the only country in the world that’s taken great, great crises and turned them into enormous opportunities,” Biden added. […]
“We shouldn’t build another new highway in America that doesn’t have charging stations on it. We have an opportunity to put 550,000 charging stations so that we own the electrical vehicle market, creating millions of jobs for people installing them, as well making sure that we own electric vehicle market,” Biden explained. …
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Unless you’re in California and they have shut the power off.
This will please the coastal elites. They will sing his “woke” praises. The rest of the country? Not so much.
Not a mental health practitioner but, I believe Slow Joe has mental faculty issues. Pandering to the Nut Jobs seems to be the default mode for these dem politicians.
Totally Clueless regarding working America.
I think we should give all those Dem cities a nice taste of life without oil and gas for a winter.
Ukranian LNG, don’tcha know?
Is that who told him it will take millions of workers to build only 550,000 stations?
Yep
JOE MALARKEY
It is starting to come together what electricity, electrical cars, politician’s children and Ukranian natural gas is really all about.
Is Solyndra hiring?
The Bidens get more laundered money in a month than most families make in five years.
I am sure President Trump will hammer home that fact daily once the election heats up
People hate that stuff
Union workers know all about “no show” and “do nothing” jobs..........
“We have an opportunity to put 550,000 charging stations”
no coal, petroleum or natural gas? where in the hell does that fool think the electricity will come from to run that many charging stations?
Or whether the electrical infrastructure can be built to handle the demand.
i suppose those hundreds of thousands of displaced blue collar workers could always learn to code ... learn to write code for the aerospace industry, the medical industry, and other non-critical industries not terribly sensitive to a few software bugs here and there by novice coders with zero education in physics, aerodynamics, biomechanics, organic chemistry, molecular biology, etc. ...
Easy as well to say, Sloe Joe, when you and your family have been ripping off the Taxpaying Citizens for your entire political career. You never held a working day job in your life, Joe.
You don’t have to worry about paying the bills to keep the lights on, Joe. The Taxpayers keep YOUR lights on.
You don’t have to worry about the next mortgage payment to keep the roof over your kids’ heads, Joe. The Taxpayers pay YOUR mortgage.
You don’t have to budget the bill money versus the food shopping money to feed your children, Joe. The Taxpayers fed YOUR children... that is until you could use your position as VP to get one of them into a foreign company.
The level of arrogance and snot that comes out of that stupid old man is astounding.
Every working man and woman in this Country that votes for a Democrat is voting for their own unemployment... and for the destruction of everything we’ve managed to build over the last two hundred+ years.
“...workers to transition to high-paying jobs … is real.”
Coal-burning cars may be the future, or maybe they won’t. Still need to invent a battery that can take a full charge in the time it takes to fill a gas tank. And, of course, we’ll need to be building lots more power plants.
I honestly can’t see how anyone can be an enthusiastic supporter of Biden. The guy’s just not all there.
I think that counts as a Biden Gaffe even though I’m sure he meant to say it.
The leftists are in the process of shutting down all the coal plants in Oregon, Washington and Montana. It is expected that the NW will be experiencing brownouts in 4 to 6 years.
The only power I’m ever going to worry about with regard to driving is the power to run gasoline pumps.
And I will never go to California again. That state is dead to me.
Yeeep! (Snicker, snicker)
“Easy to say when your family relies on wealthy Ukraine oligarchs...”
...producing NATURAL GAS!”
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