By Douglas V. Gibbs
Electric Vehicles haven’t been selling, California’s dam killing activities left the State without enough water to put out the Palisades Fire, renewable energy is crashing the system and resulting in rolling black-outs, and the Trump Administration is discovering what kind of scam the whole Green Deal truly is. In fact, President Donald J. Trump has put into motion plans that will roll back the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to play the games the radical environmentalists demand according to multiple reports.
Included in the Trump proposals for the EPA are rules that will rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which stipulates that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases can be regulated for the sake of human health and the environment. This follows President Trump’s removal of the United States (again) from the Paris Climate Accord during the early days of his second term as President of the United States. By undoing the Endangerment finding, stringent emissions rules on power plants and vehicles may be rolled back, positioning the administration for strengthening the electricity grid, protecting consumer choice, and ultimately removing the federal government from local decisions regarding energy usage and strategies.
As the Trump administration looks further behind the curtain, the term “follow the money” makes a screeching appearance. Solar programs have never truly gotten off the ground like the lefty environmental whackos would have liked, and Trump’s administration is working to cancel solar programs and other Green Deal scams. During the process, it has been discovered that none of the $250 million that California received from the Inflation Reduction Act’s “Solar for All” program ever got to where it was supposed to go. A lot of green energy dollars are either still in the buffer (Star Trek transporter reference) or was sent somewhere else. Who, then, is receiving those monies? According to Daniel Greenfield, those funds are being “used to fund the Democratic political machine rather than spending it for its putative purpose.”
The reality is, the Constitution is not about giving the government the ability to engineer our lives, be it through regulations on energy, mineral rights, allocation of resources, banking, what you can drive or how you might spend your money running your household. Frankly, from a constitutional point of view, it’s none of the federal government’s business, and from the States’ constitutions’ point of view their influence is supposed to be as minimal as possible. Wasn’t one of the problems with Obamacare according to the Supreme Court that the law could not force you to buy insurance? Then how is it remotely reasonable for government to dictate your energy consumption, what you can drive, or if you can buy a small internal combustible engine on a machine that you will use to mow your lawn – much less the kind of engine your car is allowed to have?
“But, Doug,” I can hear my opponents screaming, “we’ve got to save the planet from Climate Change.” The United Nations, after all, has made it legal for countries to sue each other over Climate Change.
You mean that natural phenomenon that has nothing to do with carbon dioxide and everything to do with the sun?
Critical thinking, man. Don’t be so foolish to believe that our influence on a minor gas that is less than 1% of the atmosphere, with a less than 1% impact by human activities, is going to spiral the Earth into some kind of cataclysmic future and that the only way to save us is to pump the political system full of communism.
Don’t be an idiot.
