KEY ELEMENTS OF PRESIDENT BIDEN’S PLAN FOR A CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION

[T. A. Gardner]

On day one, President Biden will make smart infrastructure investments to rebuild the nation and to ensure that our buildings, water, transportation, and energy infrastructure can withstand the impacts of climate change.

Every dollar spent toward rebuilding our roads, bridges, buildings, the electric grid, and our water infrastructure will be used to prevent, reduce, and withstand a changing climate.

As President, Joe Biden will use the power of government to boost climate resilience efforts by developing regional climate resilience plans, in partnership with local universities and national labs, for local access to the most relevant science, data, information, tools, and training.

It's interesting to note that it's Democrat run states that have the shittiest infrastructure and most problems with it. I doubt that Biden or the Democrats can do anything competent to change that given their nearly half a century of totally screwing this up where they are in power.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

You know what's really hilarious is BTT keeps posting these cut and pastes about what Biden's going to do, but when someone, anyone, questions any of it or starts to examine it in depth the discussion ends. BTT has noting more than empty rhetoric, glittering generalities, and other bombastic political propaganda to sling about the coming Biden administration.

At least in my case, it is one good evidence Biden will be a miserable failure in office and in 2022 the Democrats in Congress get run over and out of town in yet another Red Tsunami just like happened to Carter, then Clinton, then Obama...

 

[Diogenes]

President Biden will order an upgrade to 4 million buildings and weatherize 2 million homes over 4 years, creating at least 1 million good-paying jobs with a choice to join a union; and also spur the building retrofit and efficient-appliance manufacturing supply chain by funding direct cash rebates and low-cost financing to upgrade and electrify home appliances and install more efficient windows, which will cut residential energy bills.

 

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I could google entire essays that I could cut & paste arguing that the sky isn't blue.

You could actually learn something for once, but that won't happen either.

 

[Hawkeye10]

President Biden will order an upgrade to 4 million buildings and weatherize 2 million homes over 4 years, creating at least 1 million good-paying jobs with a choice to join a union; and also spur the building retrofit and efficient-appliance manufacturing supply chain by funding direct cash rebates and low-cost financing to upgrade and electrify home appliances and install more efficient windows, which will cut residential energy bills.

We did that under Obama...almost all wasted money...often going in reverse because houses need to breath for the health of both the house and the people and pets inside.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

President Biden will order an upgrade to 4 million buildings and weatherize 2 million homes over 4 years, creating at least 1 million good-paying jobs with a choice to join a union; and also spur the building retrofit and efficient-appliance manufacturing supply chain by funding direct cash rebates and low-cost financing to upgrade and electrify home appliances and install more efficient windows, which will cut residential energy bills.

And how's he going to fund this? Let's say you have an older home with little or no insulation, single pane windows, etc. One house like that could easily run $20,000 to $50,000 to do properly. If a new electric system and plumbing is needed it could easily top $75,000. But let's just go with $20,000 per home as a starting point. That's $10 billion per year and it won't create a single job. It is also not realistically possible to do 2 million homes in four years. That would require over 1300 homes per day, every day, be completed.
An operation like replacing windows, insulating, upgrading the HVAC, possibly having to install new ductwork, new electric and plumbing, then re-drywalling and refinishing the home won't happen in a day. It'd take more like a week or more if you had say 12 to 15 workers in various trades going at it. But that sort of operation would be more in the $50,000 to $100,000 range of repairs.
Clearly, whoever in the Democrat party wrote that platform position hasn't got the first fucking clue about what would be involved in doing this and has no idea what it would cost or the time it would take. The numbers given were nothing but ones pulled out of their ass to sound good.
Outside of states that are closed union shop, such work will be totally, or near totally non-union and that too won't change, so that statement is pure bullshit too.

If you are adding in giving away "energy efficient appliances" then you can tack another $5,000 to $15,000 onto the cost per home.

Homeowners in colder climate areas of the US would have to be utterly retarded, stupid, or oblivious to reality to try and heat their home using electricity. Their best choice is natural gas which is far more efficient than electricity for heating. It's also more efficient for cooking.

Hey, BTT, before you post such drivel, you should really do a little research to see if that propaganda you're spewing is accurate or even possible. This particular one is totally a non-starter. It'd run into the hundreds of billions very quickly and the ROI on much of it would take as much as 20+ years to pay back. Also, only the more wealthy and affluent could afford to take advantage of a tax break or rebate rather than outright government grant for the entire cost.

It also is something landlords would not bother with either. They have no incentive to do this if any of it is out-of-pocket for them. Their renters pay the utility bills. Why should a landlord upgrade a building at great expense to save their renter money on utilities? They get nothing out of that whatsoever. Same with companies that lease commercial space. The lesee pays the utilities not the company that owns the building. No incentive for them either.

This is just another retard piece of BS propaganda promulgated by the morons on the Progressive wing of the Democrat party.

 

[Diogenes]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became an undisputed congressional star after her 2018 primary upset win followed by her championing of the Green New Deal, an ambitious legislative package to address climate change quickly dismissed by Republicans.

Ocasio-Cortez has secured a commitment from the president-elect on a $2 trillion climate plan.

Over the past two years, Ocasio-Cortez, alongside Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, have garnered a level of attention that was unprecedented for a quartet of freshmen representatives, particularly women lawmakers given the historic dominance of power that men have enjoyed through the history of the U.S. Congress.

As she reflected on her new colleagues like Bowman, Jones and Bush taking seats in Congress on Jan. 3, Ocasio-Cortez says their successful elections proves "they are not a flash in the pan."

"It shows that they are not a hot new thing," she said. "What is shows is a deep yearning for climate justice and environmental action the United States of America.”

Ocasio-Cortez now counts more than 100 cosponsors of the Green New Deal resolution, introduced in tandem with Sen. Ed Markey, who just won reelection – in thanks part to the support of the Sunrise Movement, an influential group of young activists working to stop the climate crisis.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...expanded-squad-demand-biden/story?id=74297506

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became an undisputed congressional star after her 2018 primary upset win followed by her championing of the Green New Deal, an ambitious legislative package to address climate change quickly dismissed by Republicans.

Ocasio-Cortez has secured a commitment from the president-elect on a $2 trillion climate plan.

Over the past two years, Ocasio-Cortez, alongside Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, have garnered a level of attention that was unprecedented for a quartet of freshmen representatives, particularly women lawmakers given the historic dominance of power that men have enjoyed through the history of the U.S. Congress.

As she reflected on her new colleagues like Bowman, Jones and Bush taking seats in Congress on Jan. 3, Ocasio-Cortez says their successful elections proves "they are not a flash in the pan."

"It shows that they are not a hot new thing," she said. "What is shows is a deep yearning for climate justice and environmental action the United States of America.”

Ocasio-Cortez now counts more than 100 cosponsors of the Green New Deal resolution, introduced in tandem with Sen. Ed Markey, who just won reelection – in thanks part to the support of the Sunrise Movement, an influential group of young activists working to stop the climate crisis.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep...expanded-squad-demand-biden/story?id=74297506

AOC is a technical and engineering illiterate. That is a fact, and indisputable. Only the studiously ignorant or retarded would listen to her on energy policy for a nanosecond.

This is the progenitor of the Green New Deal. Would any sane, reasonable person listen to such a complete and useless scientific, technical, and engineering illiterate? What it shows is the Democrat party favors appearance and political correctness over sound, reasoned, logical policy. It is a thorough and complete example of why one should never elect a Democrat, particularly one that's admittedly Progressive or Leftist to ANY office of power at any level.

 

[Diogenes]

The Group of 20 (G20) leaders on Sunday emphasized G20 commitments to safeguarding the planet and adopting clean energy, said a G20 statement.

During the second day of the G20 Riyadh Summit, the Saudi presidency hosted a high-level side event on safeguarding the planet, during which the G20 leaders highlighted the importance of Circular Carbon Economy approach to manage greenhouse emissions across the world and industries to protect the planet.

The statement noted that G20 remains committed in its efforts to safeguarding the planet by preserving coral reefs, ocean ecosystems, and taking concrete actions to tackle land degradation and habitat loss.

"With a coordinated approach on environment, we ensure the G20 countries' commitment to building a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future," the statement added.

Addressing the meeting, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud stressed that safeguarding the planet is of critical importance.

"With the increase in emissions because of economic and population growth, we must pioneer sustainable, pragmatic, and cost-effective approaches for achieving ambitious climate goals," he added.




http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-11/22/c_139535627.htm

 

[T. A. Gardner]

The Group of 20 (G20) leaders on Sunday emphasized G20 commitments to safeguarding the planet and adopting clean energy, said a G20 statement.

During the second day of the G20 Riyadh Summit, the Saudi presidency hosted a high-level side event on safeguarding the planet, during which the G20 leaders highlighted the importance of Circular Carbon Economy approach to manage greenhouse emissions across the world and industries to protect the planet.

The statement noted that G20 remains committed in its efforts to safeguarding the planet by preserving coral reefs, ocean ecosystems, and taking concrete actions to tackle land degradation and habitat loss.

"With a coordinated approach on environment, we ensure the G20 countries' commitment to building a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future," the statement added.

Addressing the meeting, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud stressed that safeguarding the planet is of critical importance.

"With the increase in emissions because of economic and population growth, we must pioneer sustainable, pragmatic, and cost-effective approaches for achieving ambitious climate goals," he added.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-11/22/c_139535627.htm

This from the leader of a nation (Saudi Arabia) who because of poor ground water management now grows most of their food and livestock on farms in America--that they own--and practices the same poor groundwater resource use that is wrecking large swaths of arable land here...

Outside of Phoenix, in the scorching Arizona desert, sits a farm that Saudi Arabia's largest dairy uses to make hay for cows back home.

That dairy company, named Almarai, bought the farm last year and has planted thousands of acres of groundwater-guzzling alfalfa to make that hay. Saudi Arabia can't grow its own hay anymore because those crops drained its own ancient aquifer.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesal...in-arizona-tests-states-supply-of-groundwater

Or maybe Germany who's supposedly so "Green?"

When the facility was constructed in 2012, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) limited VOC emissions from the plant to 64 tons per year. In 2015, however, German Pellets admitted the plant actually emitted at least 580 tons of VOCs per year, nearly ten times the legal limit. This also meant that the plant should have been permitted as a major source of air pollution under the Clean Air Act, which would have required much more stringent emission controls.

https://environmentalintegrity.org/...-texas-wood-pellet-plant-for-toxic-emissions/

One day in late November, a cloud of white smoke swept through Woodville, a small East Texas town of 2,500 about 55 miles north of Beaumont. It was a moment that many in town had been dreading: a literal smoke signal that the German Pellets processing plant was reopening. For two years, the wood-pellet facility had been shuttered — a respite from the coughing and hacking that many attribute to pollution from the plant. Over the next few days, folks in Woodville heard clanging inside the plant, and hulking machines picking up logs and moving them across the property. But most of all they smelled the smoke.

https://www.texasobserver.org/pollution-wood-pellet-tceq-east-texas-german/

Maybe Germany can stop polluting America to make wood pellets that make more pollution than natural gas because Germany banned natural gas from home heating use.

Some commitment from the G20...

 

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The evidence that our current energy consumption and destruction of the natural environment is unsustainable is actually overwhelming at this point.

History will not be particularly kind to those who think it simply isn't there.

So why aren't you calling for population control then? Tell Catholics and Muslims to stop producing so.many babies!

 

[BartenderElite]

So why aren't you calling for population control then? Tell Catholics and Muslims to stop producing so.many babies!

I do - we need to start thinking about that, for sure.

 

[moon]

The legislation must require polluters to bear the full cost of the carbon pollution they are emitting.

They need hitting harder than that or it's a licence to pollute. It has to be financially unthinkable to pollute. Polluting must become illegal, sooner rather than later.

We're going to have to change our lifestyles, girls and boys.

 

[Diogenes]

They need hitting harder than that or it's a licence to pollute. It has to be financially unthinkable to pollute. Polluting must become illegal, sooner rather than later.

We're going to have to change our lifestyles, girls and boys.

President Biden and his team are considering a variety of enforcement options. Nothing is off the table.

 

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I do - we need to start thinking about that, for sure.

Never seen any on the Left even talk about it.

 

[BartenderElite]

Never seen, or any of those on the Left, ever even talk about it.

And?

 

[cancel2 2022]

They need hitting harder than that or it's a licence to pollute. It has to be financially unthinkable to pollute. Polluting must become illegal, sooner rather than later.

We're going to have to change our lifestyles, girls and boys.

You can wear a hair shirt if you want, Jock McMoonshi'ite. We need a few volunteers to take one for the team, what is your preferred method of death? Would you prefer garroting, strangulation, erotic asphyxiation, hypoxia or just old fashioned beheading. Your boys like that one, so it would be extremely appropriate and fitting.

 

[Diogenes]

When the United States pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement and later rolled back over 100 environmental regulations, Donald Trump established his administration’s apathetic stance on the environment.

As reported by The New York Times, “President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will use the next four years to try to restore the environmental policies that his predecessor has methodically blown up, but the damage done by the greenhouse gas pollution unleashed by Trump’s rollbacks may prove to be one of the most profound legacies of his single term.”

President-elect Biden has already signaled that the U.S. will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, but his administration faces a tough journey across choppy waters to rectify, restore and improve the country’s energy and climate policies.

When Democrats gain a majority in the Senate, Biden’s $2 trillion green stimulus package — whose goal is to put the country on the path to net-zero emissions — will move forward.

President-elect Biden will be assembling a ‘climate world summit’ with global leaders to establish protocols for reducing greenhouse emissions.

President-elect Biden will assuredly reverse Trump’s dismantling of climate policies by championing a national imperative to reduce greenhouse gases.

We can look to him to sign executive orders to fortify fuel economy standards, enforcement of efficiency standards for appliances and buildings and establish methane limits for oil and gas wells.

The environmental policies adopted by President-elect Biden’s administration will overwhelmingly influence global economic investments and geopolitical affairs.

This, in large measure, will determine the speed of the development of new high paying sustainable jobs in America’s new green economy.

President-elect Biden’s team’s ‘green growth’ agenda emphasizes environment-friendly regulations, zero or low carbon energy production and green sector manufacturing.

While renewable energy companies look forward to President-elect Biden’s leadership opening new doors for government research grants and expanded staff, America’s environmental boosts will likely first be seen on a state-by-state basis.

For example, Governor Cuomo is steering New York to realize 70% of its electricity from renewable sources, and zero greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector.

New York state is making considerable advancement toward these goals with major investments in energy storage, energy efficiency, solar energy and wind energy.

Cuomo’s $33 billion five-year climate plan has New York’s environmental energy power players — NYSERDA, NYPA, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and New York Green Bank — in charge of building the necessary infrastructure needed to drive down carbon emissions.

An executive order for the state of California mandates that the state achieve carbon neutrality and maintain net negative emissions.

Until significant environmental legislation is able to move forward on the federal level, the United States’ adoption of green policies will be a state-by-state affair, and the National Environmental Act (NEPA) will be a model to follow.

NEPA is a federal law that requires all federal agencies to submit environmental impact statements for all activity that could affect the environment.

Post pandemic, there is no doubt that our collective future requires clean air and our pathway to that environmentally sound planet demands a global support of economically sound alternative energy plans.

A ‘bet’ on clean energy through investments in renewable energy and energy storage is a sure-fire wager that will deliver a cleaner planet that will thrive for current and future generations.


https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/11/next-presidents-road-ahead-clean-energy-environment/

 

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And?

They are too fucking scared of being called racist.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

When the United States pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement and later rolled back over 100 environmental regulations, Donald Trump established his administration’s apathetic stance on the environment.

As reported by The New York Times, “President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will use the next four years to try to restore the environmental policies that his predecessor has methodically blown up, but the damage done by the greenhouse gas pollution unleashed by Trump’s rollbacks may prove to be one of the most profound legacies of his single term.”

President-elect Biden has already signaled that the U.S. will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, but his administration faces a tough journey across choppy waters to rectify, restore and improve the country’s energy and climate policies.

When Democrats gain a majority in the Senate, Biden’s $2 trillion green stimulus package — whose goal is to put the country on the path to net-zero emissions — will move forward.

President-elect Biden will be assembling a ‘climate world summit’ with global leaders to establish protocols for reducing greenhouse emissions.

President-elect Biden will assuredly reverse Trump’s dismantling of climate policies by championing a national imperative to reduce greenhouse gases.

We can look to him to sign executive orders to fortify fuel economy standards, enforcement of efficiency standards for appliances and buildings and establish methane limits for oil and gas wells.

The environmental policies adopted by President-elect Biden’s administration will overwhelmingly influence global economic investments and geopolitical affairs.

This, in large measure, will determine the speed of the development of new high paying sustainable jobs in America’s new green economy.

President-elect Biden’s team’s ‘green growth’ agenda emphasizes environment-friendly regulations, zero or low carbon energy production and green sector manufacturing.

While renewable energy companies look forward to President-elect Biden’s leadership opening new doors for government research grants and expanded staff, America’s environmental boosts will likely first be seen on a state-by-state basis.

For example, Governor Cuomo is steering New York to realize 70% of its electricity from renewable sources, and zero greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector.

New York state is making considerable advancement toward these goals with major investments in energy storage, energy efficiency, solar energy and wind energy.

Cuomo’s $33 billion five-year climate plan has New York’s environmental energy power players — NYSERDA, NYPA, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and New York Green Bank — in charge of building the necessary infrastructure needed to drive down carbon emissions.

An executive order for the state of California mandates that the state achieve carbon neutrality and maintain net negative emissions.

Until significant environmental legislation is able to move forward on the federal level, the United States’ adoption of green policies will be a state-by-state affair, and the National Environmental Act (NEPA) will be a model to follow.

NEPA is a federal law that requires all federal agencies to submit environmental impact statements for all activity that could affect the environment.

Post pandemic, there is no doubt that our collective future requires clean air and our pathway to that environmentally sound planet demands a global support of economically sound alternative energy plans.

A ‘bet’ on clean energy through investments in renewable energy and energy storage is a sure-fire wager that will deliver a cleaner planet that will thrive for current and future generations.


https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/11/next-presidents-road-ahead-clean-energy-environment/

Good for Trump. Biden is an idiot. Green as the Left describes it is a total and complete utter failure both from a scientific and engineering standpoint and an economic one. It is the highway to societal failure.

Oh, Cuomo is a liar. But anyone watching him lately would know that:

If it wasn't for the availability of hydro and nuclear, New York state would have next to zero "Green" energy. Solar and wind are utter and complete failures. Yet, retards on the Left--like you--keep pushing them.