Biden's goofy energy policies

 Jeffrey Folks:

Rising gas prices are an immediate problem — rising seas are not.  Yet in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Biden had nothing new to say about bringing gas prices down.  Releasing a few barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not a solution; it's a Band-Aid that will last about two days.  Yet all that Biden can do is repeat the outworn bromide that global warming is a catastrophe bringing drought, storms, and rising seas.

According to most estimates, global sea levels rose by five inches in the 20th century.  That's five inches for the entire century, not per year.  That is the most recent century we have as a basis for future predictions.

Climate scientists believe that ocean levels will rise at twice that rate through the 21st century, but they have been wrong about many things, and their behavior often appears to be politically motivated.  One can speculate about the future, but the past does not lie.

In a few locations, such as Venice, Italy, five or ten inches might make a difference in a city's daily life.  In Omaha or Nashville, it really doesn't matter.  In fact, there's practically no place in America where a modest rise in sea levels will make a difference in one's way of life.  But a rise in gas prices will — as will higher taxes to pay for addressing climate change, despite the fact that human efforts will not actually prevent the climate from changing.

In his latest research, Bjorn Lomborg shows that "US climate policies, in the most optimistic circumstances, fully achieved and adhered to throughout the century, will reduce global temperatures by 0.031°C (0.057°F) by 2100."  Not one degree or one-tenth of one degree.  That's half of one-tenth of one degree if we entirely eliminate fossil fuels, restrict growth and travel, dramatically reduce meat consumption, and make other sacrifices necessary to comply with the Paris Agreement for the next 80 years — and beginning immediately.

Biden believes that the sacrifice is worth it, so it was a centerpiece of his speech last week.  But the almost immediate elimination of fossil fuels will bring power outages, an end to economic growth and prosperity, and shorter life expectancy (as Americans live in the cold; drive smaller, more dangerous cars; and suffer from less medical research and poorer treatment).

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Biden's energy policies are a fool's errand and he is just the fool to implement them.  He is punishing Americans with higher prices for energy to accomplish something that is not worth it.  He is also harming US national security with his war on energy and his "transition" to Big Green's unreliable crap.

See, also:

 

What are the dark, unsettling truths behind Biden's reluctance to ban Russian oil?

Biden is apparently worried about inflation as a result of stopping Russian purchases, but that would only be the case if he continues his absurd restrictions of US energy which is one of the major causes of inflation to begin with.  Biden deliberately drove up the price of gas.

And:

The Democrats' Energy Gallows

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After mercilessly gutting President Trump’s brass knuckles achievement of energy independence with dullard supplication to the green energy junta, Biden’s crew of energy short-bus riders continue as of this writing to funnel American taxpayer dollars to a regime that has bombed and commandeered Ukraine’s most important nuclear facility, gone on thermonuclear alert, and ruthlessly snuffed the life out of men, women, children, and enemy combatants alike.

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