President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a sweeping executive order. It calls on American businesses to “lead a clean energy revolution.”
The order instructs all federal agencies to “eliminate fossil fuel subsidies…and identify new opportunities to spur innovation, commercialization, and deployment of clean energy technologies and infrastructure.”
Any machinery that is purchased to meet this goal – including electric vehicles – should be made in the United States.
“In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis,” said Biden. “It’s time to act.”
As part of Joe Biden’s climate plan, the executive order suspends all oil and gas leasing on federal lands until the Administration completes a comprehensive review of existing leasing and permitting practices. The goal is to double renewable energy production from offshore wind by the year 2030. It also aims to stop drilling on federal territory. Hours after the plan was announced, the Western Energy Alliance sued to block the suspension.
The order also directs incoming Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to “collect input from farmers, ranchers, and other stakeholders” on how to best “encourage [the] adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices.”
Leading President Biden’s so-called energy revolution is none other than Obama-era Secretary of State John Kerry. He will assume the brand-new position of “special envoy for climate change.”
The ultimate goal of Biden’s climate plan is to achieve a carbon pollution-free sector by the year 2035. It also aims to achieve a net-zero economy by the year 2050. Biden’s order portrays these goals as necessary to “avoid setting the world on a dangerous, potentially catastrophic, climate trajectory.”
Included in the order is Biden’s commitment to incorporate climate initiatives into US foreign policy, reconvene the Major Economies Forum, and host a climate summit on April 22nd (Earth Day). And because climate change has somehow morphed into a social justice initiative, the order includes the stipulation that 40% of the plan’s “overall benefits” go towards “disadvantaged communities.”
White House officials claim the order will create ‘millions of good-paying union jobs.’
However, critics expect it will do the opposite.
“With a stroke of a pen, the administration is shifting America’s bright energy future into reverse and setting us on a path toward greater reliance on foreign energy produced with lower environmental standards,” warns Mike Sommers, President of the American Petroleum Institute.
President Biden followed up the climate order with a pledge to “protect scientists from political interference” so that they can “think, research, and speak freely to provide valuable information and insights to the American people.”
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Biden climate change order to tell federal agencies to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies
Biden takes sweeping measures to curb climate change, vows job creation
When will these good paying Green jobs be available?
Obviously Kerry doesn’t understand the domino effect of cancelling the pipeline. Not only does it
put the oil workers out of a good paying job but it also impacts the entire community…i.e. taxes, schools, grocery stores, restaurants, etc. etc. etc but then he can fly around and do anything he wants to do he’s got tons of money and really has no clue has to how middle class and lower income people live and survive.
If this moron had a brain he really would be dangerous wish he would go crawl back in his rat hole he is really crazy
It’s a shame what Democrat’s are doing to this country… Defund Democrat’s and their radical agenda by stop paying taxes!!!! If millions of us stand as one and halt tax payments they won’t have the funding to destroy our Country!!!
Mark from Michigan
And hell is going to freeze over!
The problem is, he is absent of that important necessity.
Biden is a typical example of a politician who has never held a job in the real business world. Over the last four years, the USA is the only country in the world to reduce its carbon footprint. What has the “Paris Climate Accord”” done? Zippo! All Biden is doing is killing American jobs with his “energy regime”.
Biden is not for America First!!! It’s for all to see
It’s become more than evident that the Democrat party lives in a world that should be, while the Republican party lives in a world that is, based on reality. These dreams of a net zero energy policy sound wonderful until we start to take into account that the rest of the world is not interested in these feel good concepts. To stop drilling on the massive amount of federal lands have an immediate and direct impact on the economy of America. A massive loss of jobs mixed with the eleven million illegal immigrants is going to absolutely destroy the country’s ability to employ American citizens. If history teaches us anything wr must understand that dependence on foreign oil inevitably leads to armed conflict. How will the voters stand by their government sending more American servicemen in to areas rife with conflict? The answer is obvious to anyone with a logical mind. Will antifa stand silent while Biden sends thousands of American citizens to their death? Sound too extreme? Let us not forget the decades of senseless loss of live America has endured in an effort to protect our foreign oil investment in nation’s who have made it abundantly clear they want no Americans on their land. If the rest of the world’s leaders were on board with this ridiculous plan perhaps it wouldn’t be impossible to make the “New Green Deal” a feasible option. Unfortunately it’s also clear that China and Russia have no interest in destroying their own economies just to please American left wing voters. The very reason Trump pulled us out of the Paris Accord was that it had no ability to force other nations to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. Nation’s like Ethiopia are being massively built up by China using fossil fuels and are never going to give up that which makes their economic growth possible. China and the United States are in an economic war and these policies only serves to strengthen China and weaken the United States. While we watch our nation be destroyed from within foreign powers will only be emboldened. The direction we are heading will cause irreparable damage to an already faltering American dream of self reliance and global peace. We’ve only just begun to feel the economic impact of the “Wuhan virus”, and this is just another added stress to an already overstressed American economy. The left claims to protect the weak and poor yet force such unbelievable restrictions on business that those who rely on governmental handouts are being left behind. A new vehicle costs around fifty thousand dollars and with these new regulations who knows how much vehicles will cost. No families that rely on welfare or social security will be able to afford any vehicle. I refer you to “cash for clunkers”, in which nearly all affordable used vehicles were not destroyed but rather sent overseas “China” only to be driven and sending the exact same emissions in to the atmosphere. The planet gained nothing but China gained again. While the American citizens whom can’t afford a fifty thousand dollar vehicle will never find a decent job because of no transportation. So the poor stay on welfare and the working public pays even more in taxes to support them. If it seems counterproductive it’s only because it is, and if it appears to make little sense we are no looking at what is really happening. In essence this is a continuation of Obama’s transfer of wealth. Not the general American publics transfer but that of the deep pocketed money holders. It makes me wonder what exactly is meant by forty percent of funding hidden in this policy slated for social justice. Another ten thousand page bill that nobody will read coming our way once more? The left wants healthcare for everyone as well. Including apparently the entire planet. That’s going to cost trillions more. Another wonderful yet economically impossible dream. What we have here is a “Perfect Storm” and in the end only the tax paying American public will suffer. If you believe Joe Biden is the creator of these ideals you are very much deluded. There’s much more at play than we will ever truly know, and it’s only just begun.
Stop paying taxes … hit them where it hurts! I don’t authorize paying billions of our hard earned dollars to fund bad ideas.
And just how do you stop paying taxes? They are automatically taken out of your pay and then they are added to your purchases. Do you want to go to prison for that?
Joe sounds like he thinks anyone can step directly into a “union job” with green energy after working on the pipeline. Guess he thinks people with no knowledge of the field can just transition. What happened to the “right to work” laws? His $15 minimum wage will result in EVERYTHING costing more. $10 hamburgers? McDonald’s solved the problem by replacing workers with automation. THAT was a big help! Of course if prices increase for goods, so do the taxes collected from the sales.. Another way to “not increase taxes on the middle class”.. Good going Joe! At least we now see what you meant when you said “I don’t work for YOU!”
WE live in a Dictatorship; one party has total control is that Socialist or communist. Someone tell me that is not is happening? The far left has to much control now . They can do pertty much any thing they desire. They will violate the Constitution to get rid of guns first sign of what the Nazi did in Germany or the Russians after they took power. I feel enough is enough.
Reality check. The rest of the world mouths compliance but could give a rat’s ass. Maybe congress should have to use only green energy for all its energy needs-immediately-Maybe then they could figure out how asinine this plan is. The US has already cleaned up and operates more cleanly than anywhere else.