If we allow President Joe Biden to continue promoting the radical green agenda unchecked, long gasoline lines won’t be the only problem families will face.
Americans in the eastern part of the country are just now learning the hard way how critical our energy infrastructure is to their lives.
By asking the simple question “where does my gasoline come from?” we get a glimpse behind the complex network of oil production, refining, and delivery that literally drives our global economy.
Thanks to the infrastructure that includes pipelines, generations of Americans are accustomed to readily available gasoline.
The Biden/Harris Administration is rightfully taking criticism for their anti-pipeline stance as gas lines form and prices skyrocket.
As unfortunate as it is to have a massive disruption at the gas pump, President Biden’s green ambitions have a bigger target: our electricity grid.
President Biden has vowed to place our country on a whole new electrical power source in just the next 14 years.
By forcing our country to rely on wind and solar for something as critical as our electricity, President Biden is making one of two things clear: he knows he’s making false promises just to keep the radical left-wing of the Democratic Party appeased, or he doesn’t understand how electricity works.
Unfortunately, I fear it’s the latter.
In a recent white paper I authored titled, Lights Out: How Green Mandates Are Undermining the Affordability and Reliability of Electricity, I closely examine three states that have, to varying degrees, embraced energy plans similar to the Biden/Harris Administration’s proposal and the disastrous consequences.
The inspiration for the energy future President Biden wants is California. Leaders in the Golden State have been bowing to radical environmentalists for years and the rest of America needs to examine the results.
California is shutting down its natural gas and nuclear power generation in the name of being carbon-free.
However, California’s dirty little secret is the fact that it’s forced to import 30 percent or even more of its electricity from other states who generate power from the reliable energy sources environmentalists are shutting down.
As seen last summer, this green shell game dearly costs Californians in both affordability and reliability.
The working families and small business owners of California have seen their electric bills rise by 30 percent in less than a decade, a growth rate that is seven times higher than the rest of the United States.
In return for paying a premium price for power, the people of California are rewarded with blackouts.
Just as former California Sen. Kamala Harris was selected to join Biden on his presidential ticket, and a sweltering heatwave hit the state, the green agenda’s plan for electricity was delivered a dose of reality when over 400,000 homes lost power.
No word on if Vice President Harris’ home was impacted.
Paying higher prices for electricity that can be derailed by the setting sun or clouds is the future President Biden is really presenting to America. What President Biden and his eco-leftist allies count on is their belief Americans are too naive to figure it out.
Of course, the Biden/Harris Administration will scream it’s all about the environment, but “private jet” John Kerry himself said if the United States could somehow get to zero emissions by tomorrow, it wouldn’t make much of a difference because about 90 percent of the global emissions come from outside our country.
Biden/Harris Administration officials like Kerry will keep driving massive taxpayer-funded black SUVs while jet-setting across the globe. And when the next rolling blackout hits our country, their lives will continue to be just fine.
I offer a simple challenge: President Biden should put the White House on 100 percent carbon-free energy tomorrow.
That would mean no carbon backup to his solar panels and his presidential motorcade would need to be all-electric cars with 100 percent of their charging power coming from wind and solar.
President Biden needs to live in the same conditions he expects for the rest of America. Perhaps when he finds he can’t make a video call on a cloudy day or the White House press briefings are being done by candlelight, more Americans will begin to understand the pitfalls of President Biden’s unreliable energy future.
Maybe then will President Biden heed the warning about the inevitable future failures of the radical green agenda.
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The stuff they make those batteries from has to be dug up for the ground
Electricity accounts for less than one third of emissions.
Where are the electric combine harvesters, tractors, trucks, ships, bulldozers, planes and other machines a modern civilisation relies on ?
The whole idea it is necessary to destroy civilisation because of ~420 molecules of CO2 in every million molecules of ordinary air is stupid beyond belief !
Rosco, of the items you listed semi trucks are the only area where there is a viable electric model. A new diesel semi runs around $165,000. Tesla said the price for its Semi will start at $150,000 for a model with a 300-mile range, and $180,000 for a 500-mile range. It has similar load capacity. However, this is only for companies that buy new trucks. The cost of battery replacement will price these out of reach of companies that usually buy used trucks.
Farmers need trucks smaller than semi’s and larger than pickups for much of their harvesting. I doubt any are under development. There is a combine harvester that uses electric drive motors, but it needs to carry a diesel powered generator for the electric power. There is an electric drive bulldozer with the same limitation. An all electric tractor exists but it doesn’t have the capacity to do a full day of hard work. Ships and planes obviously can’t function without fossil fuels. Those planning net zero are probably aware of the needs of planes and ship but they haven’t proposed any viable solutions. With their high degree of incompetence I suspect they are not even aware of the other machines our civilization needs.
California’s need to import power will exceed 30% as they continue to shut down fossil and nuclear plants. It is perhaps feasible for the entire nation to follow the California model. All that would be necessary is to have Mexico and Canada do a massive build up of fossil fuel power plants. At a high cost we could import power from our neighbors and rationalize that we have “saved the world” because the emissions are not accruing in the US. This concept is already being used in Europe as industries flee the EU’s high cost of power and then the products are imported. Canada might have a problem since Trudeau has bought into the climate change fraud, but money from selling power provides a strong motivation for rationalization. Canada could claim since the power is being used in the US, the emissions don’t count for Canada’s total. A real issue would be billions of dollars worth of transmission lines would have to be built.
“No word on if Vice President Harris’ home was impacted.”
She most likely has a whole-house generator powered by hydrocarbons (Nat gas, diesel, gasoline). So rich elites like her don’t care if commoners have to struggle with electric black-outs.
Of course being a Dictator like Biden he will never have to worry about long gas lines since he still gets his Fossil Fuels and its the American People who pays the Bills