What passes for Donkey political leadership in the United States says we must stop drilling for fossil fuels completely, or Americans will continue to suffer from severe weather events. That’s the gospel, according to New York congressman Jamaal Bowman.
New Hampshire’s delegation is right there with him.
Bowman’s a Squad member. He is making an unhinged attack on the oil and gas industry and lobby. The congressman believes attacking the oil and gas industry will expedite transition to green energy alternatives. He is as wrong as he is ignorant.
He wants the industry to stop drilling for fossil fuels completely. What he does not do is tell you what you lose, when there is no fossil fuel available. So what’s that cost congressman? What do we lose?
The congressman wants you to pay to expedite getting us to clean renewable energy. The problem is the congressman cannot tell you how much you need to pay to get there.
He cannot explain how much of which materials will be needed. He does not know where the materials will come from to make the solar panels and wind turbines. He does not tell you it is dirtier to do it his way than it would be to do nothing at all. Why is that congressman?
His reasoning is: If we don’t do things his way, we will continue to have these severe weather events. But if there is a climate issue, the world’s biggest polluter is China. China is polluting way more than America. Worse yet, China is adding to its pollution production capability each day, every day.
Even if America stops using fossil fuels today; the world will continue on the pollution train because of the actions of others… Just think about it. You lose and the world does not gain… which is good because? Please, fill in the blank.
The national average price for a gallon of gas last summer exceeded $5. Forecasters are expecting the average to again exceed $4 very soon. The Donkeys campaigned against U.S. oil and gas production. End fossil fuel and allow no more drilling, they said. They cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline and implemented a moratorium on new gas leases.
The Donkeys targeted the oil and gas industry through regulation. They pumped out about half of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new standards forcing coal and gas power plants to cut their carbon emissions 90% between 2035 and 2040. The rule will force many plants to shut down. Where’s your electricity going to come from when they do?
Elimination of fossil fuel power plants and oil and gas drilling will cripple America’s economy. 80% of the country’s energy consumption came from fossil fuels in 2021.
We are being forced to move to electric cars which will increase electric demand. Where’s the electricity to power current demand going to come from? Where’s the electricity to power over 300 million electric vehicles going to come from? How would you distribute it… if you had enough electricity?
It is flippant to say we’ll meet that demand through green energy sources: First, there’s insufficient mining and manufacturing capacity to produce the solar cells and wind turbines necessary to generate that much electricity timely.
Second, even if we could build wind and solar capacity, which we can’t, those alternatives come with reliability issues. Solar only works when the sun is shining. Wind only works when the wind is blowing.
NERC says much of the United States faces power blackouts this summer. And that’s before we add all of those electric vehicles… before we take those coal and gas plants offline.
The United States is heading toward a catastrophic situation. The coming electricity shortage is an irresponsibly self-inflicted wound. This is national economic suicide brought to you by the Donkeys…
The problem is not the addition of harvestable wind and solar. It’s the subtraction of dispatchable resources like coal, gas, and nuclear. Before we move to something new, shouldn’t we demonstrate the capacity for the technology to deliver on the promise? Hello… Common sense … PLEASE.
