How would a Biden-Harris-AOC Deep State fight justified resistance to Green New Ordeal dictates? There would be resistance because there is no “climate emergency”, and the U.S. alone could do little about it, if there was one. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant; it makes almost all plant, human and animal life possible on our planet. Climate change and extreme weather have been constant and “real” throughout history.
The climate we have today is not unprecedented. In fact, our climate has not been better for humans animals and plants for hundreds of years, since the Little Ice Age centuries. If you had the power of a god, you'd want the current climate to be a mild warming trend, within an interglacial period. That's EXACTLY what we have had for over 300 years ! We should be celebrating as our climate gradually becomes more moderate, and plants grow better than they have grown in many centuries, from more CO2 in the air.
Joe Biden proclaimed “I am the Democratic Party” during the wild first debate. That statement disappointed Kamala Harris, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and other socialists within the Democrat Party. There's a lot of them. Joe Biden claimed to be a socialist to get the nomination.
When in California or New York City, Biden says he’ll ban fracking ... which he claims to support when in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The mainstream media refuse to point out the contradiction.
Biden says controlling Earth’s climate is the center of his U.S. foreign policy. He strongly supports the Green New Ordeal (GND), which would completely replace fossil fuels with “clean, green” electricity and biofuels by 2035.
The GND is an extremely expensive policy proposal. Expect $100 trillion of new spending over the next 15 years. Unfortunately. most of the money would be needed for social programs, such as Medicare for All, which are in the Green New Ordeal, but have nothing to do with energy. Yes, the Green New Ordeal is really a socialist manifesto, not just a new energy policy.
Dependable, inexpensive coal and natural gas power will be replaced by much more expensive, intermittent, wind and solar power. But natural gas plants will remain on standby for 100% back up power when there is no sun, every night, and no wind. Gasoline and diesel fuel-powered vehicles would have to be replaced with electric models.
Our nation’s abundant coal, oil, natural gas and petroleum liquids currently provide over 80% of our energy. But some misguided people want them locked into the ground in just 15 years?
America’s fossil fuels generated about 2.7 billion megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity in 2018. Almost two-thirds of the nation’s non-exported natural gas served industrial, commercial and residential needs - including factories, hospital emergency power systems, and furnaces, ovens, stoves and hot water heaters in restaurants, and in millions of U.S. homes. That’s equivalent to another 2.7 billion MWh.
The nation’s 65 million cars, motorcycles, light trucks, buses, semi-trailers, motor homes, tractors, backhoes and other vehicles consumed the gasoline and diesel fuel equivalent of yet another 2 billion MWh.
That adds up to about 7.5 billion MWh that the Green New Ordeal would have to replace by 2035. A new all-electric nation would require millions of onshore wind turbines, tens of thousands of offshore turbines, billions of solar panels, billions of vehicle batteries, billions of backup energy storage batteries, thousands of miles of new high voltage transmission lines, and billions of tons of concrete.
Millions of acres of farmland, wildlife habitat and scenic areas would be used by industrial wind, solar and battery facilities, and power lines to towns and cities. Birds and bats would be shredded by the wind turbines. Insects too -- that's what attracts the birds and bats!
Required minerals, solar panels and wind turbines would mainly come from other nations. Mainly from China and Chinese companies in Africa. The mining and manufacturing would use large quantities of fossil fuels, with few environmental pollution, workplace safety, fair wage and child labor laws. Is that racism too?
You will have to throw out your natural gas appliances, replacing them with more expensive to use electric models. You'll need a rapid charging system for your electric vehicles. Try that if you park on the street. The national electrical system will have to be upgraded to handle the extra loads, including wiring and transformers in your own neighborhood.
Oil and natural gas are also used to make pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, paints, synthetic fibers, fertilizers and plastics. Plastics are needed for wind turbine blades, and solar panel films, among many other uses. I guess we'd have to shut down those industries? The millions of high-paying petroleum, petrochemical and manufacturing jobs would be lost.
Families, factories, hospitals, schools and businesses used to paying 7, 9 or 11 cents per kilowatt-hour for reliable electricity had better brace themselves for a 100% price increase, or even 35 U.S. cents per kWh, as they pay in Germany.
A basic $39,000 Model 3 Tesla sedan has a battery module that weighs about 1,200 pounds, and gets about 250 miles on a charge ... if you don't use the heater or air conditioner, and don’t drive into the wind. A bus or semi-truck would need tons of batteries, taking up room needed for cargo.
The leftists don't have practical answers on how to implement a Green New Ordeal, even excluding the social programs now included, in 15 years, or even in 30 years. They just have a 'green' pipe dream.