Posted on 02/01/2025 3:54:45 AM PST by Libloather
A light just went off for the left: Americans don’t like paying higher bills for a climate war. Duh.
Democrats (well, some of them) are suddenly recognizing the message of November’s victories by Donald Trump and other Republicans.
First, that voters are deeply skeptical of a pricey (and likely futile) war on climate at their expense.
Second, that those victories will make it harder still to achieve the greenies’ fanciful agenda.
Hmm: With luck, the entire climate agenda might just collapse, saving Americans billions and bolstering energy security across the nation.
“The public is exhausted,” admits Assemblyman John McDonald (D-Albany). “They don’t want to see their bills go up. We have to be sensitive to that.”
McDonald also stressed the need “to be realistic that we’re not going to have a federal partner.”
Gov. Kathy Hochul, too, has delayed her plan for a “cap-and-invest” tax on fossil-fuel corporations, knowing the costs would be passed to consumers, conflicting with her 2026 reelection focus on “affordability.”
(She did the same with congestion pricing, delaying it until right after the 2024 election.)
Last year, Hochul also acknowledged the need to “think about the collateral damage” of the state’s climate decisions. And that the state likely won’t meet its benchmarks for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions (though she still pretended it would just be few years late).
Other blue states are also easing back down: Maryland, for instance, is delaying a program similar to the one Hochul put off.
Even California has held off on renewing its first-in-the-nation emissions cap.
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The UK too has very high energy costs and a deeply unpopular Labour government bound and determined to stick to their suicidal net zero agenda. One of their key constituencies being Gaia Worshipers there. The UK is saddled with this albatross of a government for at least 4 more years before they can even think about starting to undo the damage. By then, many of the wealthiest people will have fled the country (with their money and companies) and lots of UK businesses will have failed due to the ever rising energy costs and taxes.
Germany and the UK will serve as a warning to others about what happens when you give Gaia Worshipers what they want. It will blacken the name of Gaia Worship with the public forevermore. Its sad to see these two countries reduced to serving as a warning to others but that's where they are.
can someone post that Cassandra death warnings list going back to the ‘60s ?
Algore particularly butt-hurt.
the miles long list of ‘end of the world’ prophecies
Algore has already scammed his millions so he may not be too butt-hurt.
Cassandra doom warnings were always right, the ganggreen’s ones were always wrong. Please, give Cassandra a break.
Less than six years left? Wow! We better get ready by buying more of something!
It’s also good to gird something. It’s in the manual.
Manual? Manual? What manual? Now I gotta get the manual!
you are correct,
it was just a descriptive
This is very similar to a cow pie crumbling over time into the dirt and weeds.
The Ice Age was scheduled to destroy humanity by 1970.
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