On his seventh full day in office, Joe Biden dove right into the topic of climate change, fulfilling campaign promises including freezing new oil and gas leasing on federal land and kicking off his agenda to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
These actions follow up several extremely controversial executive orders he signed during his first week, including rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline permit.
Biden and his top climate advisers, former Secretary of State John Kerry and former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy, said the efforts to tackle climate change will ultimately create jobs for former energy industry workers, Good Morning America reports.
“Today is climate day in the White House, which means today is jobs day at the White House. We’re talking about American innovation, American products, American labor,” Biden said.
“In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. We can’t wait any longer,” Biden said. “We see it with our own eyes. We feel it. We know it in our bones. And it’s time to act.”
Perhaps the creation of new jobs will lessen the blow after the Biden administration killed thousands of them.
McCarthy, Biden’s national climate adviser, said the steps Biden announced Wednesday are also the first steps to economic recovery following the pandemic crisis. She said the benefits of investing in clean energy outweigh the $2 trillion price tag for Biden’s plans.
“Now, in terms of the job issue, we’re explicitly doing this because our economy is right now stagnant. We have people – millions of people out of work, out of jobs, millions of people that are afraid they can’t feed their families. If you’re faced with that, what do you do? You boost the economy and you grow jobs,” she said.
But, saving the world from climate change won’t really build back our economy. The first thing that needs to happen is reopening the economy allowing people to leave their homes and encouraging businesses to reopen and operate normally. Step 2: save the world.
And in terms of the job issue, Biden doesn’t have much room to talk. His decision to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline ultimately killed 11,000 jobs.
Biden has made it clear that he wants to shift to “cleaner” forms of energy.
Republicans and the oil and gas industry criticized Biden’s move Wednesday, saying that the administration shouldn’t seek to exclude forms of energy like oil or natural gas. Halting permits would hurt these industries and could force the country to rely on importing oil and natural gas from foreign countries.
“We understand society has concerns about the climate but our energy choices do not have to be either/or, but rather an all of the above, Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association said.
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Climate day at the Whitehouse under Biden just means the climate is ripe to grab power to make THE PEOPLE pay for more failed social experiments in the economic climate of the country about to go broke, fighting a nation strength killing pandemic, and now a nation strength killing administration. If the Chinese and Russians wanted to destroy America, they could not find a better ally in Biden. May they have owned him and his family all along. This fact becomes clear with every stroke of his pen, and every belch of smoke arising from the Chinese and Russian factories. The only people who benefit from Joes climate actions are the sworn enemies of the United States. Just how much did you cost to buy Joe? How much did it cost to sell out the American people? Did they do the Chicken Dance at your weddings or the Russian squat dance.
It certainly means the “Climate” is right for commies to take over..
and the Quid Pro Joe (big guy) crime family to make billions on it.
Hey Joe, move to communist China, as you and Hunter are in bed with the Chinese. Joe, in China, you can tell Xi Jinping, that you are going to reduce “carbon emissions” and you will end up in a “re -education camp / concentration camp, with the Uyghurs.
I doubt the chicoms would WANT this dunce living there.
Why … they could use a “hoser” there… HOSER: the town moron who’s job is to hose off the straw on the ice from the ice-house before it is sold. … and yes it’s a real job in Canada.
HU??? That’s an actual job? WOW.. Learn something new every day.
Typical of Democrats, they never consider the cost or the efficacy of their proposals either in what they intend to eliminate or in what they intend to replace what is to be eliminated. Eliminating the pipeline immediately caused the loss of well paying jobs in a time of economic crisis and higher unemployment, loss of income, loss of wage tax revenue, loss of home ownership to foreclosure on mortgages; the hazards of alternate shipping, by ship remember the Exxon Valdez, railroad are subject derailing and tanker trucks have accidents all the time causing major spills and polution of air and water. Alternatives have not been sufficiently been developed to be cost effective nor are they as environmently safe as touted. Wind power is as intermittant as the wind causing turbulence, killing birds and other biological anomolies. Solar power is less reliable than the wind, takes enormous areas to produce an equivilent amout of power and uses very toxic rare earth elements which need to be imported like cobalt from the Congo or lithium from Chile where the mining creates devastating health and environmental hazards rivaling asbestos and the Bopal, India disaster.
See part 2
And also uses CHILD SLAVE labor!!
Part 2
Figure in the cost of carbon based energy to process all of this into objects that that will never create the output of energy used to make them for generations. One triip in the Kerry jet will offset any real progress for months! Of course none of these new jobs are really in the planning stage, remember the shovel ready jobs without ready shovels?
Meanwhile the cost to the 100,000 or so affected by the closure of the pipeline and the ancillary jobs associated while those backing this impossible scheme for zero carbon footprint will maintain their lifestyle as if nothing can affect them
“….will ultimately create jobs for former energy industry workers…..”
Will those jobs be shovel ready? Golly, this sounds familiar.
The jobs will be hanging “CLOSED” signs.
IT made me laugh listening to the news today, where one ‘economist expert for biden’ said something to the effect of, “Deporting 11 million Illegal aliens, would COST over 4 million US citizen’s jobs”??
COME AGAIN? How can deporting ILLEGAL ALIENS cost AMERICAN workers their job?
IF ANYTHNG HAVING illegal aliens here costs american jobs..
its is not about climate never has been and never will but it is about TOTAL CONTROL of your light switch and your gas tank.
and to make the american citizen suffer while the socialist live high on the hog.