Anti energy left exposes its true agenda

Fuel Fix:
A small group of Congressional Democrats has introduced legislation halting the leasing of federal lands for extracting oil, natural gas and coal.

Called the “keep it in the ground act” act, the bill led by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, would apply to all federal lands and waters, including the Gulf of Mexico.

It follows on from legislation introduced in November by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, with support from presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont.

So far, that bill has languished in the Republican-led Senate. And with a Republic majority also in the House, Thursday’s bill is likely to face a similar fate.

Nonetheless, environmentalists, who have pushed the White House to get tougher on fossil fuels, cheered the move Thursday.
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This is totally nonsensical.

You can't build trains, cars or planes  even if they ran on electricity with power from windmills or solar panels.  You can't create the fertilizer needed to grow crops for food with windmills and solar panels.   Farmers cannot plow their fields using solar panels and windmills.

The fact is they have no viable alternative fuels for most things even if everyone drove an electric car you could not produce the steel, aluminum, and plastic needed to build it if you kept the oil and gas in the ground.

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