Green energy groups want President Joe Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act and build more renewable energy technologies in response to strained energy markets, intensifying liberal pressure on the White House to avoid endorsing fossil fuels as a solution to high prices. [bold, links added]
More than 200 environmental and other liberal organizations said they support Biden’s decision to ban Russian fuel imports, a move meant to put the pinch on Moscow in protest of its war in Ukraine, but urged him to avoid “short-sighted policies” such as enabling more oil and gas production in the face of a worsening energy outlook for U.S. consumers.
Instead, Biden should employ the DPA, as both he and former President Donald Trump did for ventilators and vaccines in response to COVID-19, to “address the climate emergency and prevent further mass suffering” associated with climate change by facilitating the production of more wind turbines and solar panels, heat pumps to replace gas-burning devices, and energy storage and weatherization technologies, they said.
“Putin’s ability to wreak such destruction on Ukraine is predicated on global dependence on fossil fuels,” the groups, which include Greenpeace USA, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, said in a letter sent to Biden on Wednesday.
“Using the DPA and your other executive powers in this manner won’t just help Ukraine, the rest of Europe, and the U.S. in the short term,” the letter said.
“It will preempt future crises sparked by oligarchs, strongmen, and the climate emergency, and position the U.S. to be a global leader in the just and renewable energy transition that will leave no worker behind.”
Prices for oil and other commodities have been elevated for months and have spiked since Russia invaded Ukraine, driving the U.S. national average per-gallon gas price to above $4.25 on Wednesday, per AAA, a record in nominal terms.
Benchmark oil prices spiked further Tuesday in response to Biden’s decision to halt energy imports from Russia and stood above $130 per barrel for part of Wednesday’s trading session, although it is down nearly 12% over its opening price as of this report’s publication.
For all of this, Biden has been under immense pressure from Republican lawmakers to encourage domestic oil and gas production, all while his green constituencies have been pressuring him to do just the opposite and stay the course on his campaign promises to end new leasing of public lands for fossil fuel extraction.
Environmental groups, disappointed by the continued approval of permits for drilling on federal land and a now-defunct record offshore lease sale, had been pressuring Biden to more aggressively check fossil fuel production and grow the nation’s green energy portfolio before Russia’s invasion upended energy markets.
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The kind of people who watched Gore and DiCaprio’s two fake documeneteries until their Brains turned to mush its no wonder they cant think straight and its a terrible waste
I’d like to question if these people are that ignorant but of course they are. There is absolutely can wind and turbine electricity power our economy. Huge numbers of humans would freeze to death during a typical winter. Would these people care? No because number of them would be dead.
March 8, 2022 Green Energy Mogul Musk Says U.S. Must Increase Oil and Gas Production
Musk, who is a vocal public investor in “green” energy technology, says despite lower gas prices having the ability to negatively impact Tesla, sustainable energy sources cannot quickly overcome America’s dependence on Russian oil and gas imports.
https://climaterealism.com/2022/03/green-energy-mogul-musk-says-u-s-must-increase-oil-and-gas-production/
It has already been demonstrated that green energy can not make up for a short fall in conventional energy. Germany was going to replace the generating capacity of its nuclear plants with green energy. The reality is they were forced to build new power plants and buy coal from Russia. However, liberals are incapable of learning from the mistakes of others.
Over 200 Useful Idiots urge Biden to become a Dictator like Obama and enforce Martial Law over us over a total’y fake crisis