icanhelp1
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That doesn't even make any sense. You're literally just devolving into old man yelling at the lawn again.
My priority is not CO2 emissions or eliminating fossil fuels at our own ec
onomic peril. You democrat progressives or *whatever you are* talk out of both sides of your mouths. Biden puts serious restrictions on land and sea drilling and pipeline permits ( Alaska/Gulf coast/XL ) and then lobby's Iran and the Saudis to increase production of crude. Ya can't have it both ways. Burning Saudis oil instead of our own doesn't cut CO2 emissions. Buying solar panels and windmills from China, a country that has a history of polluting our planet at record rates so we can reduce our CO2 emissions is at best hypocrisy. If our politicians aren't willing to take a comprehensive approach to minimizing our carbon footprint such as including nuclear in the equation then we're shoveling shit against the fan and can't be taking seriously. Leading the global effort doesn't mean facilitating pollution of one country to improve a quality atmosphere of another.
The pie in the sky green energy agenda by climate change cultist never take into consideration the waste streams these new green energy utilities create. We need to take into consideration when producing all this new technology a cradle to grave strategy for all this new hazardous waste. Manufacturing innovation not government intervention is going to make this transition happen. The only thing big government will do is create a thousand Solyndras and a big waste of taxpayer money.
I find it quite ironic that as the *inflation reduction act* which will provide EV purchasers a $7,000 or thereabouts tax break GM and Ford raised their prices for some EVs to about the same level. Why is that? Because we as a country are not ready, we don't have the resources to be self sufficient in the manufacturing process and would be held hostage to the whims of countries like China, Congo or Australia.
We can try to incentivise our own manufacturing to make this stuff but we don't have access to the raw materials we still have to buy shit from the congo, Australia and South America. Tree huggers are going to go berserk when they find out that our lithium deposits are quite plentiful but use the same mining techniques as coal mining and fracking. Biden is going to have to piss off conservationist and convince a lot of people that mining is acceptable. Converting lithium ore to battery grade product is another controversial process and may run smack dab into Biden's militant EPA.
I fully expect Biden's EPA will suffocate his green energy initiatives and Infrastructure projects with excessive regulations.
I still believe border security and comprehensive immigration policy is a higher priority than CO2 emission