Quick About Face: Suddenly, Bernie Sanders gets practical about not eliminating fossil fuels

American Thinker ^ | 08/23/2019 | Thomas Lifson

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When questioned by a student yesterday, socialist Bernie Sanders unwittingly illustrated Robert Conquest’s First Law of Politics: “Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.” 

For the rest of us, Sanders “knows” that we have to stop using fossil fuels entirely, at a (lowball) cost of $16 trillion, within 10 years.

But what Sanders “knows best” in this case is his own schedule and needs, both personal and political. That’s why when a student asked him yesterday if he was going to practice what he preaches and stop using fossil fuels in his campaign, mockery was the result:

 

Bernie mocks student who asks him to “practice what you preach” by limiting fossil fuel use. pic.twitter.com/fDovmNfqgW — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 22, 2019

 

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BERNIE SANDERS' GREEN NEW DEAL IN A NUTSHELL:

• No more fossil fuels: “Reaching 100 percent renewable energy for electricity and transportation by no later than 2030 and complete decarbonization by 2050 at latest.”
• No nuclear power: “To get to our goal of 100 percent sustainable energy, we will not rely on any false solutions like nuclear, geoengineering, carbon capture and sequestration, or trash incinerators.”
• Electric cars for everyone: “Provide $2.09 trillion in grants to low- and moderate-income families and small businesses to trade in their fossil fuel-dependent vehicles for new electric vehicles.”
• No more diesel trucks: “…we must spend $216 billion to replace all diesel tractor trailer trucks with fast-charging and long-range electric trucks.”
• Decarbonize air travel? “We will fund a $500 billion effort to research technologies to fully decarbonize industry, and a $150 billion effort to fully decarbonize aviation and maritime shipping and transportation.”
• A $40 billion ‘Climate Justice’ slush fund: “The funds will be able to be used for climate resiliency projects, building emergency community centers and shelters with reliable backup power, wetland restoration, abandoned fossil fuel infrastructure and other environmental hazard reclamation; seawalls; community relocation; community evacuation plans and resources for safe and complete evacuation.”
• Return of the Civilian Conservation Corps: “We will invest $171 billion in reauthorizing and expanding the CCC to provide good-paying jobs building green infrastructure, planting billions of trees and other native species, preventing flood and soil erosion, rebuilding wetlands and coral, cleaning up plastic pollution, constructing and maintaining accessible paths, trails, and fire breaks; rehabilitating and removing abandoned structures, and eradicating invasive species and flora disease; and other natural methods of carbon pollution sequestration.”
• Sue the fossil fuel industry: “These corporations and their executives should not get away with hiding the truth from the American people. They should also pay damages for the destruction they have knowingly caused.”
• Make the fossil fuel industry illegal by banning offshore drilling, drilling on public lands, fracking, and the import and export of fossil fuels: “We must no longer export any fossil fuels. Our coal and natural gas are contributing to increased emissions abroad. We will also end the importation of fossil fuels to end incentives for extraction around the world.”
• Learn to code! A choice of a 5-year wage guarantee or free college for fossil fuel workers: “Up to five years of a wage guarantee, job placement assistance, relocation assistance, health care, and a pension based on their previous salary…If workers would like to receive training for a different career path, they will receive either a four-year college education or vocational job training with living expenses provided.”
• Expanding food stamps: “We will expand the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $311 billion to increase the benefits from the “thrifty” plan which provides inadequate benefits to the more generous “low-cost” food plan, include those with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty line, remove punitive work requirements, remove barriers for college students to access SNAP, and ensure people are not denied benefits due to past interaction with the criminal justice system.”

[Army Air Corps]

Uh, Bernie, if you end the fossil fuel industry, how are you going to sue them? It is rather difficult to get money from an industry that you eliminate.

[Army Air Corps]

Expanding food stamps is going to save Mama Gaia? That’s rich...

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

For the rest of us, Sanders “knows” that we have to stop using fossil fuels entirely, at a (lowball) cost of $16 trillion, within 10 years.

There's a good chance Bernie won't have a need for fuels at all in 10 years, so what's it to him?

[Hoffer Rand]

Isn’t he also planning to fund this fantasy through high taxes on the banned, illegal, and defunct fossil fuel industry? How’s that going to work? Trillions in tax dollars just waiting to be confiscated from an industry that (in Bernie’s world) doesn’t exist. Yeah, that makes complete sense.

[RatRipper]

Which time were you lying, Bernie? When you wanted to eliminate fossil fuels, or when you wanted to keep them?

What ELSE are you lying about, Bernie????

I believe this is one ultra-evil old man. . . .

[BrexitBen]

REALITY is usually not something that socialists concede, until after obtaining power over the proletariat.

[himno hero]

What???!?!? did the moron just learn that the alternatives are not economically viable (let alone practical or efficient) until oil is out past 110 a barrel???

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Expanding food stamps is going to save Mama Gaia? That’s rich...

Sure it is. If you don't have to work you can just stay at home and play games on your obama phone. This is set up perfect for all the lowly-motivated uninspired millenials living in mommy's basement too. They can just stay home and reduce their carbon footprint and chip in a little bit on the groceries. Win-win. ;)

[StormEye]

Expand the food stamps program? Grow more food?
Eliminate nuclear power?
Doesn't Bernie Sanders know that the agriculture
industry wouldn't exist without the petroleum industry?
Doesn't Bernie Sanders realize that without oil,
coal fired, and natural gas fired power plants along
with nuclear power plants all of those electric cars
will never get charged up to go anywhere?

The man is way beyond stupid. He's INSANE!

[Rebelbase]

Communism is nothing but lies.

[allendale]

Bernie blurted out “No more fossil Fuels!”. Biden got scared . He thought he said “No more old fossil fools!”

[The Great RJ]

Bernie’s Green Energy Plan will have us serfs are sweltering or freezing in darkened homes due to a lack of electricity, walking to the grocery store because their is not enough electricity to charge our electric car and finding store shelves empty because there were not enough electric trucks to deliver the food products and refrigerated and frozen foods rotting because there is not enough electricity to run the freezers and coolers. Bernie and the liberal elites however will be comfortable in their air conditioned homes powered by clandestine fossil fuel generators, drive around in big limos and SUVs, fly in their private jets and enjoy the best food imported from countries smart enough not to fall for this green energy crap.

[Kickass Conservative]

You’d better watch out
You’d better not cry
You’d better not question
I’m telling you why
Stalin Claus is coming to town

He’s making a List
He’s checking it twice
He’s gonna find out
Who’s far on the Right
Stalin Claus is coming to town

He hates the Constitution
He hates the Capitalists
He hates the Border Enforcers
So be sure to stay off his List

[wally_bert]

It’s scary how many people believe that crooked delusional criminal fool.

[Go Gordon]

Uh, Bernie, if you end the fossil fuel industry, how are you going to sue them?

Better yet: Bernie, if you end the fossil fuel industry, how are you going to replace plastic and rubber?