... the Bidenistas think that all this will work because they are so “smart.”
... The Paris accord imposes huge and uncapped costs on the American people and economy, for little to no climate benefit. . . .
[E]ven if you believe that all the Africans and Indians and Chinese must be kept in perpetual poverty in order to avoid a hypothetical degree or two of atmospheric warming, the Paris agreement does not contain any commitment by them to go along with that.
... Currently, about 63% of U.S. electricity comes from fossil fuels, and most of the rest (about 20%) comes from nuclear, which the federal government has also been intentionally suppressing for decades.
So we’re now going to shut all that 63% down — an investment in perfectly good, functioning, inexpensive and reliable assets representing hundreds upon hundreds of billions of dollars over many decades — and replace it with, what?
And in fourteen years no less.
The idea that wind and solar can replace all this is complete fantasy.
They have no idea how to do it, or how much it will cost, or whether they can even make a functioning electrical grid with the not-yet-invented new technologies.
... I suppose that “zero-emission” vehicles means electric, except that there is nothing “zero-emission” about electric vehicles when 63% of the electricity comes from fossil fuels, and they have no idea how to replace the fossil fuels to produce the electricity.
So really, we’ll just ... buy premium-priced vehicles that don’t actually reduce emissions in any meaningful way.
... As the Wall Street Journal points out in an article today, several states in the West are heavily dependent on revenue from oil and gas production on federal lands, particularly for education funding.
... If an industry can only exist by government subsidy — key examples here being wind and solar power — then building out that industry with the government subsidies makes the people poorer, not better off.
And yes, Biden and all the brilliant woke progressives around him are too dumb to figure this out."