Joe Biden’s transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, has a smarmy, smiling message for all of us pudknocker Americans who don’t quite buy into the ‘going green’ agenda of the Bidenites:
“Until we achieve a form of energy independence that is based on clean energy,” get used to price hikes. [bold, links added]
Here’s what he actually said:
…so, less dependent on foreign oil, and that protects us from shortages at fuel stations, but here’s the thing to remember, even if all of the oil we use in the U.S.A. were made in the U.S.A., the price of it is still subject to powers and dynamics outside of the U.S.A. Which means that until we achieve a form of energy independence that is based on clean energy created here at home, American citizens will still be vulnerable to wild price hikes like we are seeing right now…
..which is smug, certain, smiling, and … and a very odd message to shill out to the American public as gas prices hit $5.85 a gallon on average in California and $4.26 nationally, and midterms beckon.
BUTTIGIEG: “Until we achieve a form of energy independence that is based on clean energy,” get used to price hikes. pic.twitter.com/UMWBrVPe9R
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 3, 2022
It’s an astonishingly ignorant and charlatan-like statement.
Buttigieg argues that domestically produced green energy is somehow not subject to global price swings, while only oil and natural gas somehow are.
How do we unpack this?
To start, he apparently has never heard of all the gas and coal it takes to fire up all those electrical servicing stations, so ‘bzzzt! wrong, Pete!’
Electrical charging stations and virtually all green energy ‘alternatives’ are highly dependent on oil and gas prices, as well as other global commodity prices such as lithium, cobalt, and other rare earth minerals well ensconced in the hands of players like China.
What happens, Pete, when the windmills freeze in Texas or the wind stops blowing in California? Call up your friendly fossil fuels dealers and all their supposed price ‘swings’ for details.
Fact is, electric energy is just as subject to price hikes as any other commodity because it’s a … commodity.
To claim that green energy domestically produced is not subject to such swings is nonsense, given that so much of its sourcing is international.
What Buttigieg is trying to do here is borrow from the argument made by conservatives that stepped-up domestic energy production of oil and gas is the same as green energy and therefore, will lower price swings.
Not when you have to buy your cobalt for batteries from abroad, Pete. Oil, on the other hand, can be produced here with no foreign dependency at all.
There’s also that ‘volatility’ claim of Pete’s. Given that the global markets for green energy are smaller and less ‘liquid’ than global oil markets, green energy is more, not less, vulnerable to pricing swings than the much-larger oil and natural gas markets that have a range of alternatives when one part of the supply goes out of commission.
Check out this list of favorite green energy stocks here and note the double-digit annual losses on most of them, the range of which is rarely seen in the oil and gas industry. Volatile? That’s a delicate understatement.
Another problem with Pete’s argument is that green energy somehow is achievable.
John Hinderaker’s essay about the scarcity of minerals to fuel all the green energy agenda dreams as well as the absence of space pretty much tells us that’s never going to happen and green energy is a total loser of an alternative compared to fossil fuels.
But it doesn’t stop Pete and all his smarmy green energy panaceas, arguing that the distant unicorn of green energy is the only way out of high energy prices, not the drilling for more fuel.
He’s telling Americans there is no relief from high oil and natural gas and electricity prices going on right now, so buy a Tesla or suck it up. No domestic drilling for you.
This is a pretty bad message to ordinary Americans who can’t afford to shell out $100,000 for a Tesla to beat the high prices at the pump, all delivered with a smarmy smile.
Is that going to go over well with voters come November? Well, let’s just note that the Republicans, not the Democrats are passing that video clip around now.
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Just more fanciful thinking by this administration that is totally ignorant of both economics and how our energy is produced. Plus how there is a zero chance in hell for the “green energy” miracle can ever happen without massive uses of fossil fuels.
What a total idiot he is just like the rest of the District of Crooks(D.C.)this babbling pinhead could,nt tie his own show without someone to help him in case he ties his fingers to his shoes
As an American, I detest being threatened
by a ckxn buttfkr.
No, Pete, we think it better to vote scum like your boss out of office and kick you to the curb.
Do us all a nice big favor Wax Face and take a hike
There is a huge difference in the investment required to install a renewable generator which merely displaces the output of a baseload dispatchable conventional generator (24 GWh per day) with “source of opportunity” power when the wind blows or the sun shines and replacing that dispatchable conventional generator with dispatchable renewable generation.
Replacing a 1 GW conventional generator with wind requires installation of at least 2.5 GW of wind turbines plus storage to accept and redeliver 36 GWh, assuming that there is sufficient wind available every day to operate the wind turbines. Every day for which wind is insufficient or unavailable requires additional generation and storage.
Solar, on the other hand, would require a minimum of 3.3 GW of generation and 55 GWh of storage using the same operating assumptions.
Renewable dispatchability means the end of “cheap” and rising electric rates.
I’ve listened to this fellow and for all I know, he is a good guy. But one thing I do know he is either stupid or a bare faced liar.
Anyone who believes fossil fuels are so bad for us that we need to use EV’s, wind turbines and solar panels in place of it, is beyond my understanding. The only explanation – he has a mental problem and this makes him dangerous, given the responsible job that he holds.
The very same Dumb Clucks who vote Democrat in very election and donate to Greenpeace