Electricity prices are set to “skyrocket” as President Biden steers the U.S. economy toward a green-energy agenda, according to experts.
Biden has pledged to achieve a net-zero electricity grid by 2035 and a net-zero economy by 2050.
Solar and wind make up a respective 1% and 3% of all U.S. energy, according to a report published last month by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Coal, petroleum, and natural gas account for a combined 79% of U.S. energy.
Biden’s new energy and climate plans are designed to “get coal-fired and natural gas-fired electricity prices high enough that then solar and wind become competitive,” said Gregory Wrightstone, executive director of the CO2 Coalition, which seeks to educate the public about the important contributions carbon dioxide makes to our lives and the economy.
The shale revolution and fracking have caused natural gas prices to plummet over the past decade. Prices were projected to be over $20 per one thousand cubic feet, and instead are today under $2. Coal prices are also declining.
But electricity prices are already going up because of the “wasteful, duplicative solar and wind on our grid,” said Alex Epstein, founder and president of the Center for Industrial Progress, a for-profit think-tank seeking to bring a new industrial revolution.
Because solar and wind are unreliable energy sources and don’t replace power plants on the grid, their costs are not replacement costs and are instead additional costs.
Mining for materials and solar panels requires oil and forging the different components of solar panels and wind turbines use coal.
Tens of millions of Americans live in energy poverty, experiencing hardship to pay for basic energy needs.
Twenty-five million Americans say they have forgone food or medicine to pay for electricity and 10 million say they’ve kept their home at an unsafe temperature.
The U.S. isn’t the first developed nation to attempt a transformation into a renewable-energy based economy.
Germany began its shift to renewables in 2000 and in 2019 it produced 515.6 terawatt-hours of power with 46% coming from solar, wind, biomass, and hydroelectric generation. Germany aims for renewables to account for 65% of total energy production by 2030.
Electricity prices in Germany “have doubled just to get to thirty-three percent solar and wind, and they’re having all sorts of issues,” Epstein said.
Neither Duke Energy Corp., Exelon Corp. nor Consolidated Edison Inc. responded to FOX Business’ request for comment about how Biden’s plans could impact electricity pricing.
Implementing Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan will take time and money and the results may not result in the desired outcome.
The president has already signed a flurry of executive orders aimed at transitioning the U.S. economy away from its reliance on fossil fuels toward cleaner, renewable energy sources like solar and wind. […]
U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions have since 2007 declined eight of the past 12 years, falling from 119 million metric tons to 102 million metric tons, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said.
While emissions are falling in the U.S., the trend, barring the 2020 impact of COVID-19 lockdowns, is higher in China and India, the world’s largest and third-largest emitters which account for 28% and 7%, respectively, of the world’s total.
Lockdowns aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 for months eliminated nonessential travel around much of the world, resulting in 2020 global carbon emissions falling by about 7%, the largest annual drop ever reported, according to a study conducted by the Global Carbon Project.
Emissions from the world’s biggest emitters were down across the board – falling 2% in the US, 11% in the EU, 9% in India, and 1.7% in China. […]
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution have risen from 280 parts per million to more than 400 parts per million today. They continue to rise.
Wrightstone says the theory behind Biden’s climate plan is that a carbon taxation scheme and the regulation of the oil, gas, and coal industries out of existence would lower CO2 emissions, resulting in reduced greenhouse gas warming from C02.
The problem, he says, is that there has been no evidence of “any atmospheric CO2 levels being reduced.”
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And its us Birds sitting lower on the roost who have to put up with those old Peacocks on the top roost
If these ignorant politicians want to see what happens if we get rid of our fossil fuel plants w/o replacing them with a large number of nuclear plants they just need to look at what is happening in Texas where they have the highest capacity of wind power. Right now large numbers of the turbines are useless and the grid operator is having to run rolling blackouts with temps as low as single digits. And this is while they still have coal plants, just not enough anymore. If their grid was entirely “green” (read: useless) energy there would likely be thousands of people freezing to death.
Biden like all the rest of the Democ-Rats/Globalists is based upon Lies Junk Science and Politics the Democ-Rats and the Granola Bar Munching Tree Hugging back to NATURE IDIOTS maw Nature is going to throw a big winter storm your way
I despise the climate change fraudsters and fools but I eat Granola Bars. Does this mean that I have to give them up?
these idiots are ruining the economy for global warming while we are freezing our a$$e$ off in the worst winter storm in 50 years.