Posted on 01/27/2021 1:46:03 PM PST by lowbridge
Climate Envoy John Kerry and National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy told reporters in the White House briefing room that oil and gas workers who are laid off as a result of President Joe Biden’s new climate policies will find “better” jobs.
Biden caused widespread layoffs — and potentially tens of thousands of lost future job opportunities — when he revoked the Keystone XL pipeline permit, and suspended oil and gas leasing on federal lands, on his first day in the Oval Office.
Asked by a reporter what their “message” was to workers in the fossil fuel industry, Kerry and McCarthy promised that workers could find new jobs in “green” industries — or that they could benefit from New Deal-style work programs.
Kerry said that President Biden had emphasized the “need to grow the new jobs that pay better, that are cleaner.” He added:
What President Biden wants to do is make sure those folks have better choices, that they have alternatives, that they could be the people who go to work to make the solar panels. …. That is going to be a particular focus of the Build Back Better agenda. And I think that unfortunately workers have been fed a false narrative … that somehow dealing with climate is coming at their expense. No, it’s not.What’s happening to them is because of other market forces already taking place.”
He said that a worker in a BMW plant in South Carolina could build electric engines, rather than combustion engines.
McCarthy mentioned the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a revival of a New Deal-era job program, promising that workers who lived in areas where oil, gas, and coal facilities had closed would be able to find work in their own communities rather than having to move to take advantage of jobs in
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They keep shoving this stuff down people’s throats and even democrats may start to say, “Maybe we should take a look at those election fraud claims.”
Energy, minerals other than energy, and food are what the world runs on. The gloablists understand this and set political policies in a way to engender wars and interdependence.
It’s no accident that the US was kept energy dependent. “We need the middle eastern oil.”
Was false all along. Manipulated condition.
The only choices Lurch has ever had to make is which rich widow to marry next.
Full of sh__.
Common Man! John Kerry, fought in Cambodia and Viet Nam.
When the remaining Detroit auto workers realize that the fools are putting the final nails in their coffins, I suspect that crowd will grow...exponentially
I despise that man. I have a good deal of animosity for every elected Democrat at all levels, and a large percentage of Registered Democrats who vote for them, but this man ranks near the top on the list.
It is astonishing. This is their response-”They’ll get better jobs”.
Wow.
They are all Stalinists-The Party will decide what job you work at, how you make your living, and how much you will be paid.
They know best. How I abhor them. All of them.
By the way, thanks for serving, and...Welcome Home, FRiend.
Doncha love it when billionaire gigolos tell laid-off blue collar workers ‘no problem, just get another job. Now excuse me, I’m late for my windsurfing session.’
I used to think that would be the effect, but...now I am not so sure.
I don’t know what to think of large segments of this country any more.
I hope you are right.
The only thing he has gotten right is marrying rich naive women. Other than that he is a self-entitled self-righteous arrogant gas-bag pr*ck.
Yes, there is a lot of both.
Laid-off Oil, Gas Workers Will Have ‘Better Choices’
Not until next fall fruit farms are shut down until then.
"...The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.
I know how you feel. Tar and feathers come to mind.... as well as other options.
What a dirty joke.
It will probably take weeks for them to receive unemployment benefits.
I think I am beginning to see why they want to hang on to the troops in DC . . . and it likely has nothing to do with the impeachment trial. They are pi$$ing folks off in blocks of millions. Can’t be gross stupidity , , , must be intentional provocation.
welfare or starvation, sound like excellent choices.
Arrogance . . . we has it!
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