Clean energy groups are pressing President-elect Biden to spend more on green policies. Jeff Flock of FOX Business with more.
Joe Biden’s upcoming inauguration as the next president of the United States sets the stage for a political agenda that openly and proudly demonizes the reliable and affordable energy resources that we all depend on.
Biden’s energy plans are bad for our national security, economy, public health and quality of life in general. But the ingenuity and creativity of the American people – and the very nature of how our planet and energy systems work – means that all is not lost.
Under Biden’s attempts to “phase out” natural gas, oil and coal, the prices we pay for energy will rise.
This should come as no surprise to Biden and his political allies, since costs have skyrocketed everywhere they have tried to “go green”. Californians are paying 30% more for electricity than they did 10 years ago. In Denmark, where wind power became a priority in the mid-1990s, prices more than doubled.
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Like everything we do, from the moment our alarms go off every morning to when we turn off the lights at night, it depends on energy, these higher prices will be a heavy burden for American families. Expensive energy means producing, trading, transporting and selling goods and services will also become more expensive, creating less of a ripple effect than a wave.
The rising cost of living will hurt the poor more. Low-income Americans already spend a higher percentage of their wages on electricity and gas and have less disposable income to pay the higher prices for basic needs.
Along with the tax increases that would be needed to further subsidize unreliable wind and solar energy, Biden’s plans would harm the poor and even put their health at risk.
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An equally critical consequence of the move away from fossil fuels is the destabilization of our national security. Since becoming the world’s largest energy producer and a net exporter of energy, America has had a stronger influence on global negotiations and advancing the cause of freedom.
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Thanks in large part to the growing influence of the United States on OPEC and Russia, several nations in the Middle East have pledged to normalize relations with Israel, an unprecedented development by the National Review described as “something suspiciously similar to peace”. It is the reason why President Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize four times.
The United States used to go to war over energy, but now we are actively loosening the grip of totalitarian and unstable countries not just on the oil markets, but on the global balance of power. This is good news for Americans, who benefit from a safe and peaceful nation, and also for the entire world.
Reversing this progress in the name of “green” energy – combined with reliance on essential foreign mining for wind and solar components in countries that exploit child labor and often pollute heavily – would be disastrous for the national security of the US and our allies. .
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While the potential consequences of Biden’s dreams without fossil fuel are frightening, the good news is that the inherent weaknesses of renewable energy mean that his energy plans can only go so far.
No government has succeeded in forcing a transition to renewable energy because it remains fundamentally unreliable – climate dependent, difficult to store, impossible to use without clearing large areas of land and requiring a vast landfill for the decommissioned parts.
Wind and solar energy depend on fossil fuels to build and transport their components and provide backup energy when time inevitably does not go according to plan.
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Despite dumping nearly $ 75 billion of our taxes on renewable energy subsidies in the last decade alone with the goal of making technology viable, wind and solar energy still supply only 4% of our energy. What hasn’t worked for decades won’t work suddenly for the next four or even eight years. After all, Biden himself admits that eliminating fossil fuels “is not possible”.
In a new administration and in a new year, a lot is uncertain. One thing we know is that, thanks to the ingenuity and creativity of the American people, our nation’s future will remain bright – as long as we recognize the critical role of energy in our lives and hold our elected officials accountable.
Jason Isaac is director of Life: Powered, a national initiative by the Texas Public Policy Foundation to raise America’s energy IQ. Previously, he served four terms in the Texas House of Representatives.