President Joe Biden reassured donors Monday that he would use his executive powers to act on climate change, even as energy prices are at record highs. [bold, links added]
“The climate crisis is the existential threat. That’s not hyperbole; it’s a fact,” Biden said after taking the podium at a Democratic National Committee Fundraiser in Washington, DC.
Biden promised to take “aggressive” executive actions on climate regulations even if the Supreme Court overruled him.
He acknowledged that progress on the issue of climate change was difficult to achieve in Congress, hinting that donors could help him pressure lawmakers.
“There’s a long way to go, but we’re running into some obstacles that I’m going to need your help on in terms of individuals, as well as circumstances,” he said.
Biden expressed his desire to keep the predicted rise in global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, warning of a dark future for the planet if he failed.
“Our grandchildren will never forgive us, and the world will change. I mean, literal sense it will change,” he said.
The war in Ukraine and Russia’s impact on oil prices, Biden said, only prove that the United States and Europe need to stop using fossil fuels.
“Imagine where we’d be right now if, in fact, Europe was in fact energy free of fossil fuels and we were in a situation where it was all renewables,” he said. “It’d be a different world.”
His words echoed a speech Kamala Harris gave at a Clean Transit Event, as reported by Breitbart News last week.
“Imagine a future: The freight trucks that deliver bread and milk to our grocery store shelves and the buses that take children to school and parents to work… Imagine that they produced zero emissions,” she said.
The president did not talk about how his climate change policies could raise costs further for Americans suffering the punishing inflation rates and a spike in energy prices.
Biden argued he could help families cut costs by passing subsidies for improving the energy efficiency of homes, lowering the cost of electric cars, and doubling the production of wind and solar power.
He told the audience of donors the issue of climate change was personal, as he cited a conversation he had that day with his daughter Ashley, who is a social worker.
“I called her tonight to tell her I love her … and she said, ‘Dad, you’re talking about climate, right? Talking about climate,’” he recalled to the audience. “And dad is talking about climate.”
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OK, so perhaps a REALITY CHECK may be in order. All Mr. Biden, or someone on his staff needs to do is READ the 2022 EIA Energy Outlook. At the moment, fossil fuels provide EIGHTY PERCENT of our nations primary energy. Wind & solar account for THREE PERCENT. There is no creditable, peer reviewed scientific/engineering study he can cite that demonstrates (even remotely) that our energy system can be supported by “100% renewables.” We will be dependent on fossil fuels for DECADES to complete the energy transition to whatever the “Next Big Thing” is…modular nuclear, fusion…NOT wind& solar. While the energy crisis gains momentum, our government continues to push peas around on it’s plate…
Biden Americas 2nd Dictator after Obama using E.O. to get what him and his Globalists Friends want
Feb 8, 2020 Joe Biden: “We Are Going To Get Rid of Fossil Fuels”
https://youtu.be/O_2e8WH_1yU
Yeh Joe. Imagine if Europe was “free” of fossil fuels. It would indeed be a different Europe….lots of dead people and funerals galore !
I have better idea lets get rid of the United Nations instead save a lot if we moved the whole lot to Moscow without America to kick around
More green energy for the leftists means less green in your wallet…pure and simple.