WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden vastly overpromised Thursday when he told Americans they can expect savings of $500 a month by transitioning to renewable energy. It’s possible they might save that much over a year, not per month.
Biden addressed the subject while announcing plans to order the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the strategic petroleum reserve for the next six months.
Biden is grappling with fallout from surging energy prices, including gasoline that has reached an average of $4.23 per gallon, after the United States banned imports of Russian oil and gas.
It’s unclear how much gasoline prices might dip from Biden’s new order, but the president did promise immediate savings from adopting renewable energy:
BIDEN: “If your home is powered by safer, cheaper, cleaner electricity like solar or heat pumps, you can save about $500 a month on average.”
THE FACTS: Not so. The average person in the U.S. spends far less than that every month on electricity.
The average electric bill for homeowners was $115 per month in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Between 2009 and 2019, the average monthly electric bill for a U.S. homeowner never surpassed $120.
In a statement released to support his order Thursday, the White House predicted his energy plan would save people “$500 a year from using clean electricity like solar and heat pumps to power their homes.”
Earlier this year Biden himself promised to save “families an average of $500 a year by combatting climate change.” But in a fumble, he cast the savings this time as monthly. The White House corrected Biden’s remark in a transcript, making clear he meant to say the savings he predicted would be over a year.
Even yearly savings, though, would take years for homeowners to realize, given the upfront cost of installing solar panels and heat pumps in homes.
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It’s the Progressive lie he has bought into and is under pressure to advance.
The cost of “clean” will go up and not down if wind and solar. Already has for just the temporary kind. Add the batteries if they are ever invented and the costs of mining the necessary rare minerals to make the battery and the sky is the limit.
AND then there comes the DUMPING of those batteries once used up…
Biden addressed the subject while announcing plans to order the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the strategic petroleum reserve for the next six months.
All his actions show he would rather destroy our country, so the Globalists can rebuild
to their standards.
The strategic petroleum reserves were to be used for Defense of our country. Open the pipeline back up and drilling of oil again and stop depleting our reserves.
What made me chuckle is how he RAILED at the companies “making such a large profit’, WHEN MOST GAS STATIONS operate on a shoestring profit margin.. THERE IS JUST THOUSANDS OF THEM.. So if each only say makes 10k a year profit, Then times that by say 20 Thousand, and THERE IS WHY EACH gas co is raking in moolah..
Today’s Progressive Democrats lie and mean it. Though Biden has no idea what is entailed with alternative energy, he perpetuates “Green” lies like most Democrat leaders— as easily as breathing. Defund the DNC and all the felons in it.