Posted on 11/04/2019 9:32:53 AM PST by george76
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and his merry band of Green Little Dealers offer a national alarm bell for the national Green New Deal proposal.
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Advocates for free markets, affordable energy for everyday people, and expanding our miraculous energy independence must closely watch what’s happening among the states. Case in point: Colorado’s Green Little Deal
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directly attack key industries such as coal, oil and gas, and automobiles while giving considerable power to government to regulate and transition workers, all disregarding economic realities.
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Polis has established Offices of “Just Transition” and “Future at Work.”
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The big difference between the GND and Colorado’s GLD has been strategy. While the GND originally proposed radical transformation in one stroke, Green Little Dealers prefer to feed us piece by piece, bill by bill, regulation by regulation.
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Colorado’s GLD involves three key, harmful tacks: decimate oil and gas production, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by government edict, and cover up the harm with a centrally planned “workforce transition.”
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Deconstructing the Oil and Gas Industry.
In Colorado, the oil and gas industry sustains more than 230,000 jobs .. more than $30 billion in economic output, and up to $1.2 billion in state and local tax revenue. Plus, it offers high-paying, blue-collar jobs.
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Undeterred by that pesky “will of the people,” leftist majorities in the state legislature introduced and rammed SB19-181 through in little more than a month. Polis joyfully signed the bill, which will devastate Colorado’s industry. Colorado is America’s fifth-largest state producer of natural gas and seventh-largest generator of oil.
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Colorado has one of the nation’s hottest economies, driven by low taxes and regulations, a unique Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, and
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Perfect answer..!!
This and everything else the Dems are doing is all just part of their goal of bringing the American people to their knees and the people will be will be so demoralized that they will except socialism just to see if it will make things better.
The Dems have now done so much evil and got away with it that they believe they are winning and that the American people will never rise up and put a stop to it.
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