Posted on 02/25/2022 5:51:54 AM PST by Kaslin
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was facilitated by alarmist policies enacted by the United States and Europe, meant to combat alleged runaway global warming.
Germany, for example, decided to abandon coal and nuclear energy in favor of supposed climate-friendly “renewable” energy sources. And in the United Kingdom, after briefly considering allowing fracking a few years back, the government has basically doubled down on wind and solar, erecting bans or nearly insurmountable hurdles to natural gas development on the U.K. mainland.
Those costly sources simply are not reliable enough to sustain the German, U.K., or the wider EU economies. Partly as a result of these policies, even before Russia invaded Ukraine, many Europeans were suffering under cripplingly high energy prices and periodic energy shortages.
Germany’s response has been to become even more reliant on Russian natural gas than it already was. Indeed, major Western European companies have investments in pipelines being built from Russia. Western Europe, having given Russia power over it, emboldened Putin to invade Ukraine.
Under President Donald Trump’s initiative to make American energy dominant, the United States not only became energy independent but also became a net energy exporter. Expansion of natural gas production and the rapid opening of new Liquefied Natural Gas export terminals allowed America to help Europe out of its mess by providing an alternative, geopolitically friendly, source of reliable energy. Had this initiative and other policies the Trump administration instituted continued under resident Joe Biden, it could have meant European countries purchasing more energy from America, putting money in our pockets, rather than funding Putin’s war machine.
Instead, Biden reversed course. The Biden administration’s “whole of government approach” to fighting climate change requires rapidly weaning the United States from fossil fuels.
Accordingly, Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline partnership with Canada on his first day in office; he imposed a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands and on the U.S. outer-continental shelf. Since then, Biden has canceled oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; proposed methane emission restrictions that would make it harder and more expensive to develop, store, and transport oil and natural gas in the United States; proposed increasing the fees and royalty rate oil and gas producers must pay the federal government; and recently announced plans to foreclose drilling on more than half of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
The result has been to dramatically drive up prices for fossil fuel energy. During Biden’s first year in office, Biden’s climate policies have resulted in overall electricity prices rising by more than 8 percent, home heating oil prices increasing by 43 percent, West Texas Intermediate crude oil prices rising by more than 80 percent, natural gas prices surging by 61 percent, and the price of gasoline jumping by 98 cents per gallon, about 42 percent. To be clear, higher energy prices are the explicit goal of administration policy because the administration believes it is necessary to fight climate change. These policies are not only seriously harming Americans with sharply higher energy prices contributing to higher prices throughout the economy and thus the current upward inflation spiral, but they are also enriching Putin and his oligarchs, who reap the benefits of high-priced Russian oil.
The United States and Europe have crippled their own economies and harmed their own citizens with anti-fossil fuel policies in the name of fighting so-called global warming, simultaneously endangering world peace and security. Russian troops are on the ground creating orphans in Ukraine, while John Kerry, resident Biden’s climate czar, bizarrely prattles on about greenhouse gas emissions from Russia’s military action there.
Instead, Biden reversed course. The Biden administration’s “whole of government approach” to fighting climate change requires rapidly weaning the United States from fossil fuels.
Accordingly, Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline partnership with Canada on his first day in office; he imposed a moratorium on new oil and gas leases on federal lands and on the U.S. outer-continental shelf. Since then, Biden has canceled oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; proposed methane emission restrictions that would make it harder and more expensive to develop, store, and transport oil and natural gas in the United States; proposed increasing the fees and royalty rate oil and gas producers must pay the federal government; and recently announced plans to foreclose drilling on more than half of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
The result has been to dramatically drive up prices for fossil fuel energy. During Biden’s first year in office, Biden’s climate policies have resulted in overall electricity prices rising by more than 8 percent, home heating oil prices increasing by 43 percent, West Texas Intermediate crude oil prices rising by more than 80 percent, natural gas prices surging by 61 percent, and the price of gasoline jumping by 98 cents per gallon, about 42 percent. To be clear, higher energy prices are the explicit goal of administration policy because the administration believes it is necessary to fight climate change. These policies are not only seriously harming Americans with sharply higher energy prices contributing to higher prices throughout the economy and thus the current upward inflation spiral, but they are also enriching Putin and his oligarchs, who reap the benefits of high-priced Russian oil.
The United States and Europe have crippled their own economies and harmed their own citizens with anti-fossil fuel policies in the name of fighting so-called global warming, simultaneously endangering world peace and security. Russian troops are on the ground creating orphans in Ukraine, while John Kerry, resident Biden’s climate czar, bizarrely prattles on about greenhouse gas emissions from Russia’s military action there.
And what? Cause the ocean to rise up and take Putin out? /$
As if THAT is going to happen!
No, they want greater political control of the energy sector far too much.
Sadly, our so called public servants are corrupt idiots, so don’t expect them to do anything that doesn’t serve their own interests politically and otherwise.
Will never happen. The conversion was brainwashed in for control purposes of the population and destruction of the economies. It never had anything to do with actual global warming.
Probably done by Russia so they could control all of Europe. It is easier and cheaper than by going to war. How many people would die in the next month if Putin shut off the pipelines to Europe? Overall Putin will not even be blamed for it as biden and company are dong it for him. Russia will be revered as a savior via fuel for Europe.
Should have been doing that from day one.
They will say that we need to speed up our move to alternative forms of energy.
Stop trying to reason with a cult of non-thinkers.
“Biden and Europe Should Respond to Russian Aggression by Scrapping Extremist Climate Policies”
Biden back away from a chance to replace the Covid-19 Police with a much stronger Climate Change Police Force ... not a chance!
That ship has already sailed. It was the source of funding for Putin’s military campaign.
The global “climate change” attributed to the activities of mankind boil down to a myth propagated to instill within the general population a sort of guilt for “ruining” Mother Earth. The push for “green energy” is another unsustainable myth, as not much of anything comes close to the reliability of using “fossil fuels” (another myth) as the mainstay source of electrical power generation.
The objective of the restrictions on burning hydrocarbon fuels to generate relatively cheap electrical power is not to encourage the shift to wind or solar power generation systems, which are expensive, unreliable, and extract a far greater cost on resources than a gas-fired power plant, but to restrict the availability of electrical energy for the greater number of people.
The crisis in the Ukraine could be ended in a couple weeks, if the Joe Stolen/”Que mala” Harris regime, and particularly the oligarchy behind them that is running the whole show, would declare a reversal of every one of the restrictions and prohibitions they have placed in the petroleum and natural gas extraction and shipping industries, and make the US into what is to become a net exporter of energy, outbidding the Russians for plentiful petroleum and natural gas supplies all over the world, even to selling petroleum products to the Middle East. Sending shipments of liquified natural gas to receiving ports all over the world would undercut the pipeline distribution that Vladimir Putin envisions as his stranglehold on all of Western Europe, and a good many of the Third World countries around the world.
Plentiful supplies of cheap energy, produced WITHOUT subsidies of any kind, is the key to raising the prosperity of the whole world.
No. Cut the Russians off from a major source of income. The Russians are not flush with cash and cutting off a major income stream at the same time they paying for a war will hurt them badly.
Global warming is a religious issue with these people. It will never happen. Every time they go past a thermometer they genuflect. Come on man
Brandon did the exact wrong thing by crippling and handcuffing domestic energy production. He’s wrong on everything and everything he does hurts America.
Won’t happen. Biden is an idiot and Euroweenies are notorious cowards.
It’s estimated that Putin’s foreign currency reserves are over $600 billion, with not a penny in the greenback. Euros and Yuans, mostly.
That’s #1 on my list of sanctions that COULD get Putin’s attention, but can never be done due to our Western governments.
By the way #2 is a massive military buildup, similar to what took place under Carter/Reagan. And #3 is taking Cuba or Venezuela.
Ha, ha. Not with a president who takes advice from John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) who was running around the other day with his pants on fire saying that “climate change” is a bigger crisis than Putin invading Ukraine.
Biden showed them he cancelled oil leases in the US and bought more oil from Putin
Weaning the United States from fossil fuels
Now if they just could stop all the volcano’s from emitting dangerous gasses and the ones under the sea producing toxic gases and 400 degree water temperature utopia could happen huh Mural.
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