Posted on 07/02/2022 9:30:00 AM PDT by rktman
Here's an amazing but true statistic. After more than a decade of declining carbon emissions here in the United States, in 2021, President Joe Biden's first year in office, emissions rose.
In other words, not only have Biden's energy policies been a disaster for our economy and national security as we have become more dependent on Russia and Iran, but they haven't worked as a global warming solution.
To understand the utter futility of Biden's "renewable energy" crusade, we must go back about 15 years in time to when the amazing shale revolution, thanks to energy pioneers such as Harold Hamm of Oklahoma, the man who drilled the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, began. These new drilling techniques have vastly expanded America's natural gas production over the past decade and turned America into the world's leading oil and gas superpower.
Because clean natural gas production soared and replaced coal as the No. 1 source of power generation, not only did America get rich off these bountiful resources but we also reduced our greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, over the six years covering 2014 through 2020, we led the world in our reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. Our emissions fell by 22%. That was more than former President Barack Obama's cap-and-tax plan would have reduced these emissions.
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In my office we call it V’s law.....
“All things done for ‘environmental improvement’ purposes have negative consequences that ultimately result in poorer environmental conditions than if the status quo had of been left as is.”
Gropin’ Joe fills his pants more often - and that does count.
Much as anti-poverty programs have increased poverty around the world.
The ‘anti-poverty’ version...almost identical:
“All things done for ‘poverty reduction’ purposes have negative consequences that ultimately result in poorer poverty conditions than if the status quo had of been left as is.”
The good news about all the decline in coal, natural gas and oil extraction in US territories is that IT’s STILL THERE.
Sure it’s idiotic that we are not tapping into it and just buying it from others. All the while pretending to be green....virtue signaling......just like COVIDiots wearing a mask.
Wait until libtards really crank up the lithium mining 🤪
Not surprised. I read about a mother being convicted of murder of her baby because she was vegan and only fed the baby raw fruits and vegetable.
Can’t fix stupid. Can’t fool mother nature. Can’t re-write the rules of nature.
The Green New Deal was never about cleaning up the air or anything else. It was always about redistribution of wealth from day one.
If they wanted to clean up the air in smog-filled cities they would use one or two as a test bed for going to EV’s then see what problems they ran into and if it would even work.
The point is economic warfare against the working class and middle class, and so far it is very successful.
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