The Democrats' plan to destroy the US economy and push the ridiculous Green New Deal

Daniel Turner:

With the end 2019 only days away, it’s natural we look back at all that has transpired, both “highs” and “lows.” We do this in our personal and work lives, and, as a nation, we should do this on critical issues. Like energy.

What happened in 2019 in terms of energy production?

The highs: America in 2019, for the first time in 70 years, became an exporter of oil. America is experiencing an energy boom. We lead the world in oil and natural gas production, creating thousands of high-paying jobs all across rural America. Our energy revolution, and particularly advancements in fracking, has created over four million new jobs. A report by the Heartland Institute concludes that, without fracking, our natural gas prices would be 28 percent higher today. That’s a pretty high heating bill for many American households.

Abundant, inexpensive, domestic, reliable energy is reflected in the cost of business, manufacturing, farming and industry, which translates into our economy charging ahead with the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years and wages rising for the first time in nearly a decade. Energy helps make America great. Again.

The lows: every Democratic presidential candidate opposes fracking. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders claim they would ban it by executive order on their first day in office. Though such campaign promises are met by applause from the left-leaning audience, four million energy workers should shudder. Four million paychecks supporting God knows how many more family members, spouses, elderly parents, tithing to churches, paying the kids’ Little League fees and swimming lessons … banned? On your first day in office?

And because these jobs are scattered across America in places like Artesia, New Mexico, and Williston, North Dakota, places where campaign buses don’t travel and Democratic National Committee debates are not held, none of the candidates have to see the faces of the men and women whose jobs they threaten. It’s low to cheer firing people. It’s low to cheer unemployment.

What happened in 2019 in terms of energy geopolitics?

The highs: America’s oil prices were consistent, and that makes budgets for homes and businesses easier to forecast and plan. Oil hit a high of $65 per barrel. Compare that to just five years ago when oil highs were $106. What makes this most important and even exciting: this happened while Iran attacked Saudi oil fields. This happened while Socialist Venezuela produced less oil than they have in 50 years. Yes, this is exciting for America: oil politics don’t drive our economy anymore. Ideologies rise and fall, and nations attack one another, but America, for the first time in decades, is immune.

The lows: every Democratic presidential candidate supports policies that reverse this trend.
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The leading candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, has proclaimed "there’s no place for fossil fuels in my administration.” Is there no place for fossil fuels in his administration’s military? He supports escalating wars in the Middle East and sending military aid to the Kurds in Syria. He would “support a unilateral strike to take them [North Korea] out.” Bold statements from a man who wants to be commander in chief. Maybe the tanks and fighter jets in President Biden’s military run on hot air as he does.

Such angry and stupid bluster isn’t limited to Biden. Sanders calls fossil fuel executives “criminals” and believes they should be arrested and imprisoned. Menacing words that get cheers from the eco-left on campaign stops. Less serious when we consider Bernie’s own use of private jets and multiple homes that run on the products made by these “criminals.”
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These people have at best bought into the "climate change" mantra of the left which has made serial projections of extinction over the last 50 years and none of them have come true.  They have bought into a doomsday cult mentality that projects doom and gloom is in sight usually 10 to 12 years out of whatever the current date is.  The UN has been wrong in these 10-year cycles since at least 1989. 

They compound the problem by not being able to explain which of their assumptions was invalid in making the projection.  I suspect they have been overestimating the impact of increased CO2 in the atmosphere.