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Biden’s Climate Plan Is Serious—About Green Pork.
If the price is right—$2 trillion—greens will overlook his apostasy on fracking and nuclear power.
Wall Street Journal ^
| July 17, 2020
| Holman W. Jenkins
Posted on 07/18/2020 2:40:55 PM PDT by karpov
A Joe Biden presidency would guarantee one thing. We might be finished with Donald Trump, but well still have the problem that gave us Mr. Trump. Ill borrow a term from an analyst of the European Union: sophisticated state failure.
Take Mr. Bidens climate speech this week. Its most quoted line: When Donald Trump thinks about climate change, the only word he can muster is hoax, When I think about climate change, the word I think of is jobs.
Who knows what Mr. Trump really thinks, but the full quote from a 2016 ad lib was indisputably accurate when he said of the climate lobby, Its a money-making industry, OK? Its a hoax, a lot of it. A human impact on climate seems certain to exist in some measure, but even ardent greens now realize they harm the cause with exaggeration. Meanwhile, confirmed liberal Michael Moore has decided the moment is right for a documentary film about the climate movements takeover by corporate handout artists (with Al Gore at the top of the list).
Mr. Biden offered no real thoughts on climate science or policy. His speech was a triangulation of hot buttons, an invitation to spend money, lots of it.
Thats why greens climbed aboard despite its defense of nuclear, its call for carbon capture (which would keep oil, gas and coal in business), its refusal to denounce fracking. Mr. Biden promises to spend $2 trillion over four years. Thats all they needed to hear. And forget the part about the U.S. electricity sector being carbon neutral by 2035, when Joe will be safely out of office. President Obama proposed 54.5 miles per gallon as the target for the U.S. auto fleet in 2025.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware; US: New York
KEYWORDS: antifa; biden; climatechange; clowncar; delaware; fakescience; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; michaelmoore; newyork; ocasiocortez; occasionalcortex
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posted on
07/18/2020 2:40:55 PM PDT
by
karpov
To: karpov
solyndra was just a trial run.
libs are gonna get RICHER THAN GOD if biden gets in.
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posted on
07/18/2020 2:43:21 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
To: karpov
Did somebody mention green pork?
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posted on
07/18/2020 2:50:22 PM PDT
by
Nateman
To: karpov
Watermelons, get your watermelons here! Every one is green on the outside and guaranteed red on the inside!
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posted on
07/18/2020 2:56:50 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: karpov
To: karpov
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posted on
07/18/2020 3:12:48 PM PDT
by
buckalfa
(Please forgive my feeble attempts at humor, Appalachian education, and condescending snarkiness.)
To: karpov
Thats serious dough, even by Washington standards. The good news is that a lot of it, rather than get used to trash American businesses, will get siphoned off by crony politicians and corporate fat cats.
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posted on
07/18/2020 3:32:54 PM PDT
by
Spok
(All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.)
To: karpov
$2 trillion dollars for #FakeScience. A hoax. Sounds like a lib plan.
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posted on
07/18/2020 4:03:17 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Covid is over. We have been conditioned by it. The Cultural Revolution has begun.)
To: Nateman
Avoiding green pork is a good way to say healthy.
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posted on
07/18/2020 4:15:46 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: karpov
Hes like AOCs sock puppet. I wonder if AOC is doing Biden and Bernie to get them to say everything she wants.
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posted on
07/18/2020 5:15:55 PM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(Systemic liberalism is the problem.)
To: karpov
Biden wants all the money for himself.
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posted on
07/18/2020 7:09:52 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(Bingo! We have a winner!)
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posted on
07/18/2020 7:38:54 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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