While the greens in America, including their champion zealot, President Joe Biden, howl their primal screams over climate change, the rest of the world is turning to coal. The dark stuff. The satanic fuel. But it’s back big-time across the globe.
So is old-fashioned petroleum.
Bloomberg reported last week that because of high natural gas prices due to a reduced supply from the United States, Europe is “snapping up coal.” It’s cheaper now, and compared to wind and solar it’s a much more reliable source of power.
Euroland is also starting to give up on the green energy dreams that are still alive and well in the minds of American pols in Washington, D.C. Great Britain and Germany have experienced soaring energy prices at the gas pump and in electric utility costs for homes, factories and businesses. Some relief will come from natural gas that will eventually be supplied to Europe via a gas pipeline from Siberia. Don’t forget, Biden greenlighted that pipeline just a few weeks after killing the Keystone XL pipeline and thousands of jobs here at home.
Meanwhile, the nation with three times the population of the U.S. and the world’s largest energy consumer, China, is all-in on coal. The Daily Mail reported that China’s 1,000 coal plants “make a mockery” of any promises by Beijing that China will move to renewable energy. Coal is by far the largest source of energy in China, and new plants are being built every week. This is, as the Telegraph put it, “Beijing’s dirtiest little secret.”
Despite those solemn pledges for China to clean up its air, the Chinese emit three to four times more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year than does the U.S.
Then there is the situation with oil. The price has been rising as demand remains steady. The Wall Street Journal reported that OPEC nations predict that demand for their oil will at least double over the coming decades. That doesn’t sound like a fuel source that is going out of fashion.
This is all happening just at the very moment that Democrats in Congress are about to pass green energy bills that will cripple our fossil fuel industry. These fuels could make America the energy powerhouse of the 21st century. It’s hard to see how dismantling U.S. oil, gas and coal will stop the rise of the oceans when the rest of the world’s addiction seems incurable.
Last month, Biden went to the United Nations and lectured the world about an international partnership to combat climate change. You could almost hear the snickering in the audience of foreign diplomats.
It is a foreign and economic policy driven not by realism, but by fantasy. Biden sees the world as he wants it to be, not as it is. He reminds me of Britain’s Neville Chamberlain circa 1939, who believed Hitler’s promises of “peace in our time,” up to the moment the bombs started falling like rain on London.
The shame of all this is that when Trump left office, America was all but energy self-sufficient and even an energy exporter. Thanks to the shale oil and gas revolution, the U.S. has access to more oil and gas (and coal) than any other nation. We have many hundreds of years of energy supply.
Now that the rest of the world is thirsting for U.S. oil, gas and coal, the Left wants to shut down all domestic production by 2035, even though our fossil fuels are the cleanest.
So, instead of the world’s energy coming from the U.S., it will come from Russia, Saudi Arabia and the OPEC nations.
To borrow a Trumpism: Those nations are now laughing behind our backs.
Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at FreedomWorks. He is also a co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and a Washington Examiner columnist. To find out more about Stephen Moore and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
So, Fossej fuel is Good for Other Countries but Bad fur America , President and the communkst agree, The United Nagions says Fossel energy ” bad for America, But good for China , hooray for us!
Fossil fuels are bad for America only in the minds and bank accounts of the traitorous sell-out politicians who get rich on Chinese, Russian, and Middle East bribes and kickbacks, Just follow the money. When socialist sell-out traitors run your nation, ,,,,Sooner or later you do run out of other people’s money and OUR American people’s national wealth. Just how much does it cost to support 80,000 illegal Haitains? How much more energy is burned and air impurities created to house and transport 30 million illegal aliens? How ,much more can the Democrats run up your gasoline costs and heating costs which will have doubled by the end of the year. Guess what?? you just got socially redistributed and that giant sucking sound is not the needle going into your arm, but your tax dollars going down the drain.
Hence my comment the other month, that HIS “BUILD BACK BETTER” never ever meant building AMERICA back, but everyone else, BUT AMERICA!”
Agreed… The communist occupiers thinking… or, should I say non- thinking… is “We need to set an example to the rest of the world”. What these traitors ….DON’T… tell us is the example is : don’t be stupid like the Americans are and give up your sovereignty and wealth. It looks like the rest of the world heed the advice and example. Well done there …Quid Pro Joe and treasonous Regressive Liberal Socialist Democrat party + RINO’s… well done.
How do you starve a nation and its economy? The same way you starve and destroy a human life. Just take away the fuel and food that energizes its ability to even basically function. Left to the Democrats only shortages, unemployment, high prices and diminishing national strength follow in energy of their so called woke wake. If true leaders of a once great Democrat party like FDR, Truman, Kennedy were advised by the same people that feed Biden’s starving brain and told that you that strong militaries are built by retreating and prosecuting the fighting colonels and generals, and jobs created and a nation in built by paying people to stay home from work, the Democrat party would have destroyed itself decades ago, instead of putting us all through the nightmare of their Socialist insanity today. Biden, the Mexican drugs Lords and the Chinese all get rich on the drugs they support crossing our borders while the drug and media duped American brains go vapid. Just where is the justice let alone the leadership in that? Only a stolen election could have produced these results, by first stealing our energy and the energy for the American minds to see what is really happening.
I would Never consider FDR a ‘true leader’, AS IT WAS HE WHO GAVE US the whole damn welfare state, we are still saddled with
And Johnson took the ball and propelled it to the “no turning back” arena. Now, the modern day Regressive Liberal Socialist Democrat party took the well installed “safety net” and turned it into a hammock for their own power grab and personal wealth. Obscene demons … ALL OF THEM!
But he knew how to win world wars, This current crew can’t defeat a village of camel jockeys.
Ilumin. IT WASN’T him that really won those wars, it was our TROOPS AND OUR generals/admirals, who had the BALLS to do what was needed, to get the job done.
These are dangerous times and the end of freedom in America. The Socialist democrat , Communist take over, The elit communists are so sure that America has secome to the communists no longer feel any need to hid their agenda from the citizens. The Communists have, foe example flat-out tell the patents tha they have no right to interfer with what is taught to your children in public Schools and the School Boards will not tolerate any interference by concerned parents and the 9Th. Court Agrees with the School Boards, ” May you live in interesting Times, ” was never more Interesting than the present time, When did the parants of children going to public schools ever surrender their right as parents to decide what their children will be taught. The anser is, that the democrats hope that parents will meekly surrender their rights but I have faith in the parents and they will nevet give up the rights of parents.
This traitorous socialist Democrat Party has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!!
This traitorous socialist Democrat Party is leading our country and our citizens down the path to slaughter
and making us pay for our own destruction. In just 10 months these Democrat Party traitors have a $6.4 Trillion plan
that will destroy our economy and make everyone dependant on this traitorous socialist Democrat Party.
WE the PEOPLE will become servants to, subjects of and wards of this traitorous socialist Democrat Party dictatorship.
Our only rights will be whatever this traitorous socialist Democrat Party dictatorship wants to give us.
IF THEY Decide what we can and can’t do, ITS NOT A RIGHT< but a privilege.
” You Will Obey, Comrade! ” Scruffy USN retired these are, Indeed, Interesting Times, I just hope Americans will wake Up and kick out these Traiter, Anti- Hate America before its too late to save this this country from the communists .
Part of me fears its already TOO late to stop their ruination of our once great nation..