The Washington Post whined that the energy crisis isn’t “spurring a green revolution” while many Americans suffer from skyrocketing food and gas prices.
“The United States is struggling to squeeze opportunity out of an energy crisis that should have been a catalyst for cleaner, domestically produced power,” Washington Post reporter Evan Halper whined.
“After decades of putting the climate on the back burner, the country is finding itself unprepared to seize the moment and at risk of emerging from the crisis even more reliant on fossil fuels.” [Emphasis added].
Newspaper editors disguised the 1,927-word monstrosity, headlined “Why an energy crisis and $5 gas aren’t spurring a green revolution,” as “Business” news. Talk about being completely tone-deaf.
Halper said the quiet part out loud: “The challenges [to a green transition] are further compounded by plans to build costly new infrastructure for drilling and exporting natural gas that will make it even harder to transition away from the fossil fuel.”
But Halper didn’t cover actual business news, like fuel prices skyrocketing 106.7 percent year-over-year.
He instead blamed Russia for high gas prices and complained that wind and solar energy are not accessible enough, both of which are leftist talking points.
Halper cited two radical green evangelists to support his anti-energy arguments: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry.
Guterres had the audacity to call increasing energy production “delusional” in prepared remarks at the sixth Austrian World Summit in Vienna on June 14.
“Our world faces climate chaos,” he stated in his remarks. “New funding for fossil fuel exploration and production infrastructure is delusional. It will only further feed the scourge of war, pollution, and climate catastrophe.”
Guterres wasn’t the only green extremist to have a conniption over the prospect of increasing oil and gas production to combat energy inflation.
Kerry also joined in on the madness by trying to tar oil production as a relic of the past.
“You have this new revisionism suggesting that we have to be pumping oil like crazy, and we have to be moving into long-term [fossil fuel] infrastructure building, which would be absolutely disastrous, ”Kerry said June 7 at the TIME 100 Summit in New York City.
“There’s no way we achieve a holding of the Earth’s warming at 1.5 degrees [celsius]. We’re headed right now towards 2.7 to 3.7, which is beyond catastrophic.”
He added, “We have to push back, and we have to push back hard.”
Halper’s grumbling continued, as he targeted Americans who can’t afford to buy electric cars. “Only 4 percent of cars sold in the United States last year were electric vehicles,” he said.
But Halper himself conceded that the “sticker price of a new electric vehicle is $10,000 more than a comparable gas-powered model.”
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A slight modification of a line from “The Princess Bride” Guterres (and others) keep using the words Climate Chaos (and others like it) but I don’t think they know what the words mean. There is no climate chaos or crisis or anything else.
I suggest you are the one that doesn’t know what things mean, given that deniers in the USA and Russia are the only countries denying reality.
China is constantly building new coal plants.
What do you think, they’re trying to take over the world by December 31st, 2099, only to see it end on January 1st, 2100?
Or, and I am just spitballing here, fossil fuels don’t present any significant threat to life on earth and the Chinese are laughing as we waste trillions on renewable pipe dreams?
Kerry’s statement that we are headed for 2.7 to 3.7 is based on climate models that have been running hot compared to real world data. What I find interesting is his statement that such an increase “is beyond catastrophic.” Where is the study that predicts what the world would be like 2.7 degrees warmer? Since we are already one degree warmer than pre-industrial times, 2.7 degrees is only 1.7 degrees warmer than we are now. Where is the study that can be used to conclude 3.7 degrees warmer would be “beyond catastrophic?” Remember that four thousand years ago the earth was 3.9 degrees warmer. It appears that Kerry is making wild statements based on nothing more than his own emotion.
The last time Earth’s average temperature was 4℃ warmer than pre-industrial levels was around 5-10 million years ago. Are you referring to local warming rather than global?
It appears you are the one making wild statements based on nothing more than your own emotion.
Sorry Washington Compost but with all this Inflation Americans have more important things other then a fake crisis of Global Warming/Climate Changeand Biden the Bungler behind it all with the UN and CFR Globalists Dictators
Reality disagrees with you, but never mind, go ahead and destroy the USA, the PRC is laughing at you.
They’re laughing at him as they’re building 3 times as many coal plants as the rest of the world?
Also AGW isn’t specific to one country.
You should learn the idiotic theories you’re trying to espouse. You made two statements illustrating a vast level of ignorance in a single sentence. Well done.