Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, the former Vice President, recently delivered a message for blue-collar workers in America’s vital energy industries: you are going to lose your jobs.
Pound sand; let them eat cake – pick your metaphor.
Biden admitted: “The answer is yes,” to a question posed to him at the last Democratic presidential debate about whether he would pursue his climate policies if they resulted in job losses to thousands of blue-collar workers.
He went on to promise “high-paying” green energy jobs for those “displaced” workers – as empty a promise as one will hear from a politician.
It is not just coal miners and oil production workers who stand to lose if Biden becomes President.
The tens of thousands of workers in the natural gas industry who have made America the world’s leading energy producer also will be harmed.
A Biden presidency, or that of every other Democratic candidate, would declare war on fossil fuels in order to address man-made “climate change.”
No matter what Joe Biden, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, or any other politician promises with whatever Green New Deal they are hawking, America’s fossil fuels cannot easily be replaced – certainly not in the near-term, nor in the decades hence.
Fossil fuel energy is plentiful and is the lifeblood of America’s economy. It fuels domestic manufacturing, heats our homes and businesses, and powers our vehicles.
The hydro-fracturing revolution of the last decade has made all such energy more affordable and has sustained the overall economy to the point of robust job creation and rising incomes in recent years.
The promise of renewable energy to replace traditional sources that is the crux of the Green New Deal is pure fantasy.
That does not mean that research and technological advances in alternative fuels should not be financed and pursued.
The problem is that any such energy transformation is not easy, imminent or realistic. Airplanes will not be flying on solar energy in our lifetimes, if ever.
This lack of realism from Biden and so many others is not stopping politicians from imposing present-day limits on traditional energy development.
Climate policies in places like California and New York are reckless examples of restrictions on fossil fuels, which mean fewer jobs, higher prices, loss of competitiveness, economic stagnation, and residents fleeing those states.
If such policies are imposed nationally, which Biden and other presidential candidates promise, the same bodes ill for the United States.
The reporter at the debate asked the right question of Biden, and he got an honest answer, at least in the first part. Blue-collar workers in energy will lose their jobs.
Yet the promise of Biden and others that new jobs will be created in alternative energies is unserious since those sources cannot rival fossil fuels any time soon, if ever.
The follow-up question about energy transformation never seems to get asked.
How will renewable energy reverse climate change? How much CO2 will be reduced? How reliable are climate predictions in which all this is based? (Hint: they are not reliable.) Would a “carbon-free” America in 30 years, assuming it was possible, even matter?
The risk—rather, the certainty—of green policies is that American taxpayers will spend billions of dollars fighting climate change without moving the global temperature needle since most of the rest of the world will continue to refuse such folly.
Carbon dioxide emissions may drop a tiny fraction, but sunspot activity, ocean currents, and water vapor–all of which affect our climate–will continue.
China, Russia, India, and the developing world need fossil fuel energy now to build their countries and raise living standards.
Fossil fuels are essential to bringing middle-class prosperity—the kind Americans have enjoyed for decades—to the world’s poor.
They are not on the Green New Deal bandwagon and do not believe or care what Hollywood actors, royal offspring or green billionaire donors are selling.
Give Joe Biden and others credit for being truthful about massive job losses in America’s energy sector if they implement their climate policies.
More importantly, these same politicians need to answer how attempting such a green transformation could be accomplished or be effective globally.
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This is the most ridiculous argument ever.
Of course the world is still going to need energy “forever”, and to pay working people to generate it. Whether it comes from fossil fuels or more sane solutions that don’t ruin the planet and cause extinctions. For sure even more labor and jobs are needed if we have to build new infrastructure.
If this is the best answer Biden can come up with…. I think we need to lose the candidate, lol
So will the Mine Workers Union still support this dip-wad after all this? SCREW GREENPEACE and the Sierra Club
Dems are setting themselves up for a bloodbath defeat in 2020, doesn’t matter who they nominate. Total power is their goal; they’ve signaled zero concern for people and business. Always pushing huge, overarching programs that will throw us into a depression is not a winning strategy.
Biden don’t give a darn about the lives of Blue Collar Energy Workers all he cares about is appeasing the Eco-Nazis/Watermelons the Back to Nature Freaks like most of the dirty democrats are
A big jump in the cost of energy would cause millions of jobs to be lost that have nothing to do with the energy companies. It is certain that the company I work for would go bankrupt. All products require energy to manufacture or grow to they would be more expensive. Remember, if you got it, a truck brought it. Things we buy would be more expensive due to higher transportation costs. The impact of the Democrats proposed police would go way beyond energy workers.
You got to give Biden credit
He told the truth at least this ONE time
probably because he couldn’t escape it.
BUT
You’d think as a long time career smellocrat,
that he could lie his way out of it !
He has learned NOTHING from
Nancy Pelosi, Schmuck Chomper, Dick Durbin,
Hosanna O’Bama, Harry Reid, etc, etc
All these cretins are actually canvassing for Trump. Keep it up!
….sociopaths are good at lying, so Joe can’t even be one of those! The Dems base are going to feel the chill when the platform of Trumps base spreads the word that jobs will go if any politician embraces the Green Manifesto. Let’s hope that ALL the Dems candidates follow suit as it is the road to destruction and will hand Trump a second term….
Who believes that Biden was telling the truth? He’s going after the Democrat nomination. May the best liar win.
No, Biden won’t be on the final Democrat ticket anyway. Apart from Green New Deal all the current contenders are pro unlimited immigration and pro gun control. They have alienated a very significant part of their historic base. Old white men need not apply.
Blue-Collar Energy Workers To Biden : You’re Going To Lose Your Job
These #ClimateScaming #ClimateCrackpots are the ones who are going to ruin our lives and the World as we know it. They should be banned now, because they are intent on gaining control of the World, they are evil!
Biden is as delerious as he is stupid a typical liberal democrat doing the bidding of the Eco-Freaks from the Sierra Club,Greenpeace,NRDC,EDF,Friends of the Earth Etc and the other Eco-Nazi He is a total idiot