Posted on 10/05/2021 5:16:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
While the greens in America, including their champion zealot, resident Joe Biden, howl their primal screams over climate change, the rest of the world is turning to coal. The dark stuff. The satanic fuel. But it's back big-time across the globe.
So is old-fashioned petroleum.
Bloomberg reported last week that because of high natural gas prices due to a reduced supply from the United States, Europe is "snapping up coal." It's cheaper now, and compared to wind and solar it's a much more reliable source of power.
Euroland is also starting to give up on the green energy dreams that are still alive and well in the minds of American pols in Washington, D.C. Great Britain and Germany have experienced soaring energy prices at the gas pump and in electric utility costs for homes, factories and businesses. Some relief will come from natural gas that will eventually be supplied to Europe via a gas pipeline from Siberia. Don't forget, Biden greenlighted that pipeline just a few weeks after killing the Keystone XL pipeline and thousands of jobs here at home.
Meanwhile, the nation with three times the population of the U.S. and the world's largest energy consumer, China, is all-in on coal. The Daily Mail reported that China's 1,000 coal plants "make a mockery" of any promises by Beijing that China will move to renewable energy. Coal is by far the largest source of energy in China, and new plants are being built every week. This is, as the Telegraph put it, "Beijing's dirtiest little secret."
Despite those solemn pledges for China to clean up its air, the Chinese emit three to four times more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year than does the U.S.
Then there is the situation with oil. The price has been rising as demand remains steady. The Wall Street Journal reported that OPEC nations predict that demand for their oil will at least double over the coming decades. That doesn't sound like a fuel source that is going out of fashion.
This is all happening just at the very moment that Democrats in Congress are about to pass green energy bills that will cripple our fossil fuel industry. These fuels could make America the energy powerhouse of the 21st century. It's hard to see how dismantling U.S. oil, gas and coal will stop the rise of the oceans when the rest of the world's addiction seems incurable.
Last month, Biden went to the United Nations and lectured the world about an international partnership to combat climate change. You could almost hear the snickering in the audience of foreign diplomats.
It is a foreign and economic policy driven not by realism, but by fantasy. Biden sees the world as he wants it to be, not as it is. He reminds me of Britain's Neville Chamberlain circa 1939, who believed Hitler's promises of "peace in our time," up to the moment the bombs started falling like rain on London.
The shame of all this is that when Trump left office, America was all but energy self-sufficient and even an energy exporter. Thanks to the shale oil and gas revolution, the U.S. has access to more oil and gas (and coal) than any other nation. We have many hundreds of years of energy supply.
Now that the rest of the world is thirsting for U.S. oil, gas and coal, the Left wants to shut down all domestic production by 2035, even though our fossil fuels are the cleanest.
So, instead of the world's energy coming from the U.S., it will come from Russia, Saudi Arabia and the OPEC nations.
To borrow a Trumpism: Those nations are now laughing behind our backs.
Wrong..... very wrong
Xi has ceased generating power from many coal fired plants. As a result there are vast power outages all over China.
That’s because we have democrats.
A Rat infestation.
All you coders out there…”learn to mine.”
We are going to have a severe power shortage in the near future as regulations force the switch to lower producing and unreliable means of power generation just when the transportation industry switches to all electric vehicles. Where is that extra power going to come from? I forsee a huge market in pre def diesel trucks and underground untaxed heating oil filing stations
We need to bring back nuclear power. Every state should have to build one. 50 new gigawatt power sources.
Nuclear is the REAL Green Energy, and that’s just not the glow.
Link?
There is talk currently about rebuilding the North Western RR through the Eel River from Willits to Humboldt Bay for COAL export. the rail line has been idle for many years...
If I am not mistaken I think Tennesee Valley has nuclear power. They use water in my hometown in Germany to produce electricity.
Does this author not realize that Natural Gas is also a fossil fuel? It’s high gas prices that are making the economics of coal more attractive.
if they shut down 3...it means they built 6 more bigger and better.
And there is not even a river in my home town. Only a creek.
“the Chinese emit three to four times more greenhouse gases”
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Cut it out with the “greenhouse gas” nonsense, will ya....? Stopped reading right there
Fossil energy sources, including oil, coal and natural gas, are non-renewable resources that formed when prehistoric plants and animals died and were gradually buried by layers of rock.Over millions of years, different types of fossil fuels formed — depending on what combination of organic matter was present, how long it was buried and what temperature and pressure conditions existed as time ...
The Tennessee Valley is a HUGE river system, as wide as the Rhine. Tributaries include the Kentucky, Cumberland and Buffalo rivers. That’s a LOT of water!
Why would they need German water?
Technically, yes - but we grabbed the easy stuff first. Shale will become progressively more expensive to extract.
Modernized nuclear power is the real solution. Countries smart enough to build new reactors will gain a big advantage in the future.
As long as it destroys America is all they care about.
Youtube video but I don’t have a link
It’s pretty common knowledge that China is experiencing power outages all over. The reason is they have ceased coal power generation
Xi actually said the Euros and Americans made him do it because of climate change
I’m not worried about CO2 emissions by fossil fuels. Hopefully coal will be phased out over time because of other pollutants it emits when burned.
If I were a greenie I wouldn’t be worried about use of fossil fuels in the near-term to provide essential power. Over time, it appears that green energy sources will meet more of our power needs so their problem is headed for a solution.
Keep the faith, greenies. Don’t panic!
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