Biden killing at least 120,000 jobs while pushing crappy wind and solar

 Newsmax:

The state of Texas is pushing back hard against the Biden administration over its "flurry of executive orders" that appear largely targeted at the state, particularly with the oil and gas industry, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush told Newsmax TV on Saturday.

"We set up a legal defense task force here at the General Land Office," Bush, the son of former Florida GOP Gov. Jeb Bush, the nephew of former President George W. Bush, told "Saturday Agenda." "As the asset manager of over 13 million acres, roughly of the size of the state of Indiana, we've got a lot of work ahead of us."

Currently, Texas officials are in Wyoming with the Western Petroleum Association concerning President Joe Biden's freezing of any hydraulic fracturing horizontal drilling being done on federal lands.

"What it means for the Wyoming, the Colorado, the New Mexico, and the Texas economy, we're looking at a loss of 120,000 jobs just on that executive order alone," Bush said.

Meanwhile, Biden's infrastructure and jobs plan includes calls for cutting emissions and imposing new restrictions on businesses, but Bush said he favors the counteroffer Republicans have made, which "strips down all the fat and the pork that we traditionally see when the left makes this lurch toward a large infrastructure spend as they propose."

In Biden's plan, for example, more than $400 billion is earmarked toward community care, and "most Americans don't identify that as infrastructure," Bush said. "I think any common, practical understanding of what the word infrastructure means does not include that."

Bush also said he thinks, Democrats, with their plan, are "overplaying their hand," by thinking they "have this universal mandate to spend as far as the eye can see and to tax hard-working entrepreneurs and small businesses."

And when it comes to renewable energy, Bush said what he loves about the Texas model is "we are the No. 1 producer of wind power, and we're No. 2 in solar behind California."

"We've done that without mandates, without regulations and red tape," he added, noting businesses compete in a market-based system that allows private industry to be assessed on a "pound-for-pound" basis.

However, he added, it is important to be sure there is enough power based on fuel, as shown by the power outages that slammed the state last winter.


"We need coal, we need oil, we need gas," Bush said. "Renewables can be a part of that transition for reducing CO2 too, which is what we've seen here in Texas, but to do so on a market-based perspective, which has been the hallmark of what we've done here in Texas, the last decade."
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Bush has a higher opinion of wind and solar than I do.  It is just not a reliable source of energy and it leaves you wanting just when you need it the most.  Biden's job-killing plans will make the whole country have less reliable sources of energy and renew the need for imports.  BTW, wind and solar hardware come mostly from China and other countries.  Biden and Kerry are scientific nincompoops when it comes to climate and energy.  Kerry recently said he wanted to eliminate carbon dioxide.  Doing so would kill all the plants on the planet.