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Biden’s Costly Energy Disaster
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He’s spending tens of billions of dollars a year on rigid compliance with unproven ideas. BY LISA SCHIFFREN
ince its first day in office, the Biden administration has adhered to rigid policies for countering the rather nebu-
lous threats of climate change. Biden policy banishes as much as
possible of the fossil fuels that under- gird our society and way of life, while setting goals of reducing carbon emis- sions — “Net zero by 2050!” — by shift- ing to wind and solar power, electric vehicles (EVs), and other somewhat marginal technologies. This is a disaster. Though not the
disaster the left warns about. For one thing, electrifying everything
makes us highly dependent on China for materials needed to make car batteries, solar panels, and other necessities. Do we want our grid held hostage by
an adversary? First, we must ask, is climate change
even real science? We’ve always had shifting weather on Earth. Or is it an ideology, useful for forcing politically motivated, costly economic, industrial, and political policies that would never pass if the facts were clear? Or is it a full-fl edged religion, divid-
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ing material actions into good and evil on mundane matters like what kind of stove you use, with scary outcomes for those who fail to placate the gods of carbon emissions? And if it isn’t a religion, why do its
cult leaders keep telling us that the Earth will self-destruct momentarily unless we adopt ritualistic actions relat- ing to driving less, using less power, and having fewer children? For the record, it’s an ideology, with
a lot of religious dressing, useful for gin- ning up deep emotional support among the nonreligious young and others in
Is climate change a real science, or a full-fl edged religion, dividing material actions into good and evil on mundane matters like what kind of stove you use?
need of something big to believe in. This ideology requires a new, expen-
sive, and unproven set of energy and environmental policies. And rigid com- pliance with all sorts of made-up rules. And sacrifi ces of money, freedom, and human comfort. Animal sacrifi ces, in the form of killing
cows that pass methane gas, are still only a suggestion made by socialist organiza- tions like the World Economic Forum. Meanwhile, solar and wind con-
tribute a mere 5% of our power. And, though the left doesn’t talk about it, it requires a lot of fossil fuel to make turbines and solar panels, which most communities don’t want in their midst.
WHY IS THIS A DISASTER? Overall, this shift means that, as Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, recently noted in a National Review article, “Although the United States has mas- sive resources of oil and natural gas, Americans now face energy scarcity, an electric grid that is less reliable, and shortages of natural gas and oil — all of which have imposed higher prices on consumers and the economy.” Furthermore, “The Biden adminis-
tration, either directly or in conjunc- tion with banks, Wall Street invest- ment management fi rms, and other institutional investors, is infl uencing the fl ow of capital to energy projects in a way designed to discourage invest- ment in the fossil fuel sector. “But government control of energy
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