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Where Obama Pretended, Trump Team Supports Real Black ‘Power’

Africa at nightPaul Driessen, writing at Townhall, explains Carbon Colonialism.

Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) use manmade climate change alarmism to justify lending policies that reject funding for fossil fuel electricity generation, promote expensive and unreliable renewable sources, and thereby help keep impoverished nations poor.

But something is changing.

“…in a daring show of humanity and common sense, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has broken ranks with the World Bank and its like-minded carbon colonialist brethren. The AfDB has announced that it will once again finance coal and natural gas power generation projects. As AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina puts it, “Africa must develop its energy sector with what it has.”

Africa has coal and natural gas. Gobs of it.

Natural Gas, if you hadn’t heard, is responsible for the US being a world leader in reducing CO2 emissions.

AEI CO2 data

If Arica is to lift itself out of its stagnation it needs electricity. Not the kind Obama and the EU Planeteers pushed on them but affordable reliable on-demand power.

Put in understandable everyday terms, those numbers mean the electricity that makes modern lives, jobs, productivity, living standards, health, communication, computers, entertainment and life spans possible is available to Africans a paltry 4.7% per capita of what Americans rely on. Just imagine having electricity available only 1 hour a day … 8 hours a week … 411 hours per year – at totally unpredictable times, for a few minutes, hours or days at a stretch when you have power. And at three times what Americans pay.

Sure, speeches and handouts may make the elites feel better, but you need reliable energy to create opportunity. To start a buisness, hire people. Build a strong middle class.

Clean water.

Lift a people out of poverty.

The elites forced wind and solar on the great continent of Africa. It’s almost as if they didn’t want them rising out of Poverty.

As I mentioned above, something is changing.

The AfDB is being encouraged by the Trump Administration, which may partly account for the new policy. The Trump USAID is now running the Power Africa 2.0 program, a vital upgrade of the Obama era program that promoted renewable energy and strongly discouraged the use of affordable fossil fuels.

Translation: The so-called “racist” “white supremacist” in the white house is doing more for Africa and its people than his half-cracker-snooty-elitist predecessor.

USAID Administrator Mark Green says the new Power Africa goal is 20,000 MW by 2020, using “affordable, reliable energy,” meaning coal in many cases. More broadly the Trump Administration has spearheaded creating a “global fossil fuel alliance.” Energy Secretary Rick Perry often refers to this as “new energy realism” in global power development, noting that fossil fuels are absolutely essential for developing countries, especially in those where many people still have no electricity. How refreshing.

Somone doing something useful to help lift Africa out of poverty is news but since it’s Mr. Trump, good luck finding this story on cable news.

Chart c/o AEI

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