Posted on 10/24/2020 4:14:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Energy issues, and the Green New Deal specifically, may end up being the political death of a potential Joe Biden presidency. During his debate with President Donald J. Trump on October 22nd, former Vice President Biden embraced the idea of banning fracking and eliminating the American oil and gas industry.
That was a big mistake.
It seems like Biden has fallen for the fallacy that supporting the radical environmental agenda is good politics. He may have spent too much time in coffee shops in Delaware and on Amtrak trains to understand the financial struggle many Americans are facing. His leftist advisors may dream of a world without gas powered cars, yet most Americans in fly over America care more about cheap energy and jobs.
The polls indicate a landslide for Biden on November 3rd, yet these are the same polls that indicated Hillary Clinton was also going to win big in 2016. The reason why Hillary lost was that she fumbled away Democrats in the so called ‘Rust Belt’ when she proclaimed that she was going to shut down the coal industry.
Democrats have become the party of eliminating fossil fuels when so many Americans work in that space. They talk about ending oil and gas while adopting the left’s rhetoric of hatred of fracking. Seems nuts that Joe Biden is moderate enough to understand that he needs to pump the brakes on packing the Supreme Court, yet he has pushed all of his electoral chips in on a radical anti-energy agenda that appeals to liberal elites. Good luck finding enough latte sipping Americans who drive electric cars and have solar panel roofs on their houses to balance off the 9.8 million voters, not including their families, supported by the oil and gas industry.
In March of 2016 Clinton embraced a radical left energy policy. Clinton said, “I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." As reported in Business Insider on September 7, 2017, Clinton wrote in her book about the campaign “that her biggest regret from the campaign trail last year was saying she would put coal miners out of business.” That one comment may have cost her Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin which cost her the White House.
The polls rolling up to the 2016 election hid the signs of danger for the Clinton campaign. Five Thirty Eight projected that Hillary Clinton had about a 5 percent lead in Wisconsin, 4 percent lead in Michigan and 4 percent lead in Pennsylvania. The actual result was a 1 percent victory in Wisconsin, 0.3 percent victory in Michigan and 1 percent victory in Pennsylvania for President Donald J. Trump. The voters in these important swing states were not willing to vote for a Democrat who promised to put them out of work.
Now the issue is the Green New Deal and the specific issue of fracking has captured the Biden campaign. CNBC reported on September 8, 2020, that “Fracking spurs a rust belt rebound in manufacturing.” Fracking is popular in the states that Trump needs to flip, if you believe the polls, yet Biden has adopted a position on this issue that flips the bird to voters in these same swing states that launched Trump into the White House. Any rational campaign aid would have told Biden before the debate to avoid a comment that will alienate rust belt voters.
Democrats have gone crazy on the issue of climate change. They have adopted the radical left’s Green New Deal that promises to eliminate petroleum products like gasoline. Nick Loris of The Heritage Foundation describes the proposal as “essentially banning the internal combustion engine and transitioning to electric vehicles, high-speed rail, all of these things that are economically costly right now and will be for a very long time.” Loris points out that “the reason that 92% of our transportation needs are met through petroleum products is because they're affordable and reliable.” Loris is spot on to point out that the cost to consumers of this idea is astronomical. Middle- and low-income consumers of fossil fuels, in addition to people working in the fossil fuel industry, will be hurt badly if Biden has his way.
Sleepy Joe may get a wake-up call on Election Day thanks to his embrace during the final debate of banning fracking and eliminating the American oil and gas industry.
Total bullshit!
..........yes, the National Education Association (teachers union), since the fifties, has filled the head of countless millions with socialism, marxism, communism and HATE Americanism!
Joe is fracked.
that her biggest regret from the campaign trail last year was saying she would put coal miners out of business.
Irony. ONE MORE SMALL LIE added to the thousands she publicly wilfully told...
They plan to force it on us whether we want it or not, against the will of the voters. President Trump smoked that out of Slow Joe, who was completely outmatched and overwhelmed.
Of course the panels keep producing, but even adding up all the “free” energy from the panels, the payoff is about 10 years.
And that 10 years of intermittent energy production is just about the usable lifetime of the panels....if you are lucky.
Agreed. There are other reasons apart from jobs thay are not being well explained, like having to choose between climate change and the destruction of the environment by renewable energy sources, irregularity of output (which has to be offset by the use of gas), the bigger ways in which renewables contaminate, etc. Explained in this ted talk (which also makes a case for nuclear energy). Its only 17 minutes. Really worth the time to be equipped with good short answers in a discussion of the topic.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-yALPEpV4w
The production of fossil fuel when you account for all the industries that support them, is arguably THE largest industry in America. Shutting it down would be catastrophic.
Last I checked, cars sure seem to like oil too. Michigan voters should take that into account as well.
Couldn’t sleep in middle of night... How do
Got to thinking... How will mining operations be able to continue with ONLY electric heavy equipment??? Some of those operations run 24/7.
How about massive farm equipment that costs a small fortune & is ONLY used 2 months of the year—and is idle for the rest of the year?
How do those farmers keep those batteries up? IF they need one quickly——how long do those batteries hold storage??
Do any of those LARGER items of equipment require heavy duty power to charge up?
How about ranches that are NOT even on the grid? How do they keep their equipment working?? Many use ATV’s along with horses and dogs to watch over their ranches. Want to get stranded on a 15,000 acre ranch in an ATV that has run out of battery power???
There are ranches in NE Nevada that have DRIVEWAYS over 3 miles long—to the highway. I know of a ranch that has 18 miles of dirt road from the highway to the ranch house & outbuildings-—ALL of those 18 miles are on their property.
The staff of Biden’s campaign have not thought this thru.
I haven’t heard ANY chatter about how they intend airplanes to fly or military ships to move about.
CASH for Clunkers 2.0
EVEN electric items need lubricating oil.
Well, those ranchers will have to be modified, too. They should be living in apartments in Reno, so they have better access to government social services. /s
Maybe that there is no such thing as “fossil fuels” and that even using that term adopts the leftist view.
There is no such thing as ‘fossil fuel’
I’ve got 13; about half wooded.
So I get FREE fuel from GOD!!
However; HE doesn’t cut it, split or stack it.
Cuba will take them!
And all of the OTHER countries that do NOT foolishly turn off the gas!
There is always THIS left.
Sure they have!
Not many votes will be affected.
Of COURSE not .... did you forget the part about “the sweat of your face “ ?
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