Biden's Energy Plan Could Kill 5 Million Blue-Collar Jobs

In Pittsburgh, in front of union workers last month, he declared: "I am not banning fracking. Let me say that again. I am not banning fracking. No matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me."

But that is far from what he was saying earlier this year. During a March Democratic primary debate exchange between Sen. Bernie Sanders and Biden, Sanders started by saying: "I'm talking about stopping fracking as soon as we possibly can. I'm talking about telling the fossil fuel industry that they are going to stop destroying this planet -- no ifs, buts and maybes about it."

After that famous Biden-Sanders debate, the Biden campaign issued a retraction, meaning this isn't really what the former vice president meant to say. And, admittedly, he's old; he loses his train of thought; he can't be expected to remember his latest official position on fracking every week. His latest flip and flop is no drilling permits on federal lands.

But what is unambiguous and in big, bold writing in the Biden "buy America" plan is his signature pledge to the climate change crusaders to end fossil fuel use in America by 2035. This, of course, is a de facto ban on fracking, because if we aren't going to use the energy, why would anyone drill for it?

That Biden zero-carbon emissions target requires a glide path to no fossil fuel production and consumption 15 years from now. Given that we currently get about 80% of our energy from oil, gas and coal, according to Daniel Yergin, a world expert on energy, getting down to zero is going to be a gut-wrenching experience for blue-collar workers.

There are a lot of them. The oil, gas and coal industry accounts for somewhere between 5 and 10 million jobs, depending on how you count them. These are almost all high-paying blue-collar jobs -- the kind that Biden laughingly says he wants to bring back home to America -- and hundreds of thousands of them are in battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Colorado. How the left ever thinks it will turn Texas blue by promising to ban oil is one of life's great mysteries. Liberals must really believe Texans are stupid people.

The Wall Street Journal reports that, in 2019, the U.S. led the world in oil and gas production. Because of fracking, we passed Saudi Arabia in output. In other words, oil and gas IS made in America now, thanks, in no small part, to President Donald Trump's all-in strategy of making the USA energy dominant.

So, Biden is telling us we are going to bring jobs back home by decapitation our energy industry. Wind and solar account for about 5% of our energy consumption today, so even if we double their output, we still need to have access to other energy. Under the Biden plan, it sure looks like we will have to get it from Russia, Saudi Arabia and even China, which is planning to build hundreds of coal plants over the next decade.

The leaders of Beijing could care less about climate change. What they do care about is global economic domination by knocking America off our pedestal. Biden's energy plan would give President Xi Jinping and his fellow communists a big assist.

naturally, the following study was attacked by the manmade gloBULL warming alarmists, but associated figures linked below would suggest it was, perhaps, true:

18 April 2009: Midland Reporter-Telegram: Spanish study finds 2.2 jobs destroyed for each green job created
President Obama has claimed that tax subsidies to alternative energy and environmental penalties to fossil fuels “can create millions of additional jobs and new industries.” Obama has even cited the government of Spain, “where they are making real investments in renewable energy.” However, a new study of the subsidy program implement by Spain reveals that every new job created by the Spanish government in the alternative energy area destroyed an average of 2.2 other jobs.

The study - prepared under the direction of Dr. Gabriel Calzada, an economics professor at Juan Carlos University in Madrid - discovered that only one in 10 jobs created by the program in Spain were of a permanent nature (operations, maintenance, etc.), and two-thirds consisted of temporary jobs in construction, fabrication and installation...

“The study’s results demonstrate how much ‘green jobs’ policy clearly hinders Spain’s way out of the current economic crisis, even while U.S. politicians insist that rushing into such a scheme will ease their own emergence from the turmoil … This study marks the very first time a critical analysis of the actual performance and impact has been made,” Dr Calzada wrote in the study’s introduction...

Spain has spent about $774,000 to create each “green job” since 2000, including subsidies of more than $1.3 million per wind industry job. However, about 113,000 other jobs elsewhere in the Spanish economy were destroyed because of the subsidies, or 2.2 jobs destroyed for every “green job” created.
“The loss of jobs could be greater if you account for the amount of lost industry that moves out of the country due to higher energy prices,” Dr. Calzada said.

“The price of a comprehensive energy rate, paid by the end consumer in Spain, would have to be increased 31 percent to begin to repay the historic debt generated by this rate deficit mainly produced by the subsidies to renewables, according to Spain’s energy regulator. Spanish citizens must therefore cope with either an increase of electricity rates or increased taxes (and public deficit), as will the U.S. if it follows Spain’s model,” the study found.
https://www.mrt.com/business/energy/article/Spanish-study-finds-2-2-jobs-destroyed-for-each-7481656.php

Unemployment rate, Spain: 16.6%
Unemployment rate, US: 8.4 percent

Wikipedia: Unemployment rates in Spain rose sharply during the late 2000s and early 2010s. Unemployment was at 8% between 2006 and 2007. Starting in 2008, the Spanish economic crisis caused the rate to rise past 20% in 2010 and 25% in 2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_in_Spain

These stupid liberals WILL DESTROY the economy if Biden gets control of the government, SIMPLE as that. They WANT, NEED, HAVE TO HAVE as many on welfare and government CONTROLLED paychecks as possible. They have health care in their control. Just control health care and the pay checks and you CONTROL THE PEOPLE. That is the Soros, Gates, Klintons game plan. Just control those and everyone will grobble at your feet for that money and I am sick, I need a doctor, where is my GOVERNMENT PAID HEALTH CARE?? Pay off all the student loans, free health care, free money, FREE, FREE, FREE. That is the liberal answer to all ills, FREE STUFF. Yup, this plan is THE GAME PLAN of the left.

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