President Joe Biden on Friday hosted a climate change forum at the White House, calling for a “transition” to electric vehicles to help reduce America’s dependence on oil.
“Russia’s war is driving up prices of gas, everybody knows that, hurting people in all of our countries,” Biden said. [bold, links added]
The virtual conference featured some of the world’s biggest economies including China, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
The president spoke with world leaders and his administration’s climate change czar John Kerry, as Breitbart News reported.
He called high gas prices around the world an “immediate problem” he was focusing on but indicated he would continue pressing for Americans to purchase electric vehicles.
“Over the long run we can remove the pain of volatile gas prices, and reduce transportation emissions by putting more zero-emission cars on the road,” he said.
Biden set a goal of half of all passenger cars sold in the United States to be “zero emissions” by the year 2030.
“The good news is that climate security and energy security go hand in hand,” he said.
But the president also boasted he had coordinated the “largest release of global oil reserves in history” to help reduce gas prices.
“The critical point is that these actions are part of our transition to a clean and secure and long-term energy future,” he said.
John Kerry, who was recently criticized for saying the United States did not need to drill for more oil, reemphasized the importance of transitioning to green energy.
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Biden has no intent to ease our Problems just offer us a useless answer Why don’t he switch ti a total’y EV fleet for the White House Staff and Himself
I wonder how far the “Beast” would travel on a single charge.
FJB FJK
Short but to the point!
I’m continually amazed at Biden and other clueless elites when they think that there can be a transition to electric cars. Such as transition is possible in the upper middle class and higher income groups. However, even Elon Musk volunteered in an interview that the average American family can not afford one of his vehicles.
As a micro example, our family typically spends $6,000 or less for a car that we drive for a 100,000 miles.
I know this will come as a surprise to you but the cost of electric cars has fallen considerably as more and more are produced and EVs are cheaper to run than a fossil-fuel driven vehicle.
EVs produced in the PRC are as low as 14.250€ and they are being exported, so it won’t be long before VW, Renault et al drop their costs.
So, some day my family will be able to buy an electric car for $6,000? If we can get the same size as the cars we drive now then we will do so for a vehicle to be used for local commuting. I’m not opposed to electric cars. It is just that the cost is out of reach.
I note you cite Richard S. Lindzen as a reputable authority. Why? Remember he said smoking isn’t a health hazard, why wouild he dop that? Because the tobacco industry paid him to
As for his views on things to do with the climayte who has been told by MIT he is wrong. Why don’t you tell your readers that?
He stated “one can see no warming since 1997.” Which is totally untrue.
He is now a “Distinguished Senior Fellow” at the Cato Institute. funded by fossil fuel interests He is also affiliated with the industry shill front group Heartland Institute which used to work for big tobacco denying health risks.
“The report The Climategate Inquiries, written by Andrew Montford and with a foreword by Lord (Andrew) Turnbull,” of the GWPF, a denoper front funded by FF that is about as relevant and honest as the FF funded Heartland Institute (which also funds the GWPF.)
It had Ian Plimer as an academic advisor, thr numpty who couldn’t work out the amount of CO2 emitted by volcanoes vs FF. He claims volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans, whereas we emit 130 times that of volcanoes.
Why don’t Biden set a example and take long long trip across America in a EV nonstop to. His Delusional Ideas are reaching the Breaking Point
Who is claiming such a non stop trip is feasible? No-one. In fact in a normal ff powered vehicle such a trip is not feasible either, is it.
Why don’t you set an example by being honest for once in your life?
I’ve just come across a classic from you “Why Politicized Science Is So Dangerous” from a site that is nothing but political rhetoric.
Do you know what irony and hypocrisy are?
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), which also campaigns as Net Zero Watch, has also received more than half a million dollars through a fund linked to the controversial billionaire Koch brothers.
The GWPF has long refused to disclose its donors and claims it will not take money from anyone with an interest in an energy company.
But tax documents filed with US authorities reveal the network of dark money behind it for the first time – including the $30m shares in 22 companies working in coal, oil and gas that are held by one of its donors.