How climate change crowd financed Putin's war

 Roger L. Simon:

It’s tempting to laugh at Biden’s climate czar and devoted private jet customer John Kerry who complained to BBC Arabic that the Ukraine War could “distract the world from the climate change crisis and produce ‘massive emissions’ that will negatively impact the globe.”

Only it’s actually tragic—and not for the environment.

The truth is that people like Kerry and many of his colleagues and predecessors who have been obsessed with the same supposedly imminent ecological disaster literally for decades now, are to blame as much as anyone—with the exception of Vladimir Putin, of course—for the carnage in Ukraine.

This environmental obsession obviously swept up our current president to such a degree that from the minute he was inaugurated he worked to reverse the American energy independence achieved under the Trump administration.

He succeeded and then some in less than a year.

Result: The United States imports oil to the tune of millions of dollars a day, including from Russia (even as it invades Ukraine). As Bloomberg reported last year, Russia provides more oil to the United States than any other country, except Canada. Around 20 million barrels per month.

This makes the so-called sanctions a pathetic sideshow—laughable, really.

As for most environmentalists, they are mostly moral narcissists signaling their own virtue. Few actually do much for their sainted environment other than buy a Tesla if they can afford one.

Nevertheless, as Bjorn Lomborg wrote in the Financial Post: “If the whole world follows through and gets to 140 million electric cars by 2030, the IEA [International Energy Agency] estimates that will reduce emissions by just 190 million tonnes of CO₂—a mere 0.4 percent of global emissions. In the words of Fatih Birol, head of IEA, ‘If you think you can save the climate with electric cars, you’re completely wrong.’”
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It is beyond idiotic for the US to be buying oil and gas from Russia while we are reducing our own production because of the "climate change" beliefs of liberals.  By reducing our production we are reducing the world supply and thereby driving up the price.  In the process, the US has been funding Putin's war of aggression.

It should also be noted that Biden's sanction regime as originally announced did not include Russian fossil fuels.  So, apparently, we are still buying from Russia and helping that country pay for its aggression against Ukraine.  Again, that is just idiotic.  

The Western world should stop buying fuel from Russia until it leaves Ukraine.  The US should step up its own production to replace the Russian oil and gas.  That should have no material impact on the climate if the US and Europe are using American oil and gas instead of Russian.  It should at least reduce Putin's cash flow to fund his war.

Here is more on how European energy policies funded Putin's aggression.