I’ve been told that elections have consequences
Trump Will Have Enormous Power Over Climate Action. Here’s Why.
Why? Because he’s president is my guess
Walking away from treaties. Redrawing the boundaries of national monuments. Repealing pollution regulations.
As Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman reported, when Donald Trump returns to the White House next month, he is expected to unleash a series of executive actions and other moves that will radically overhaul America’s approach to energy, the environment and climate.
Shockingly, people knew this when they voted for him. A lot of people voted for him to do exactly this. Why can’t Warmists practice what they preach and leave the rest of us alone.
Some of the moves have been well telegraphed. Trump intends to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, as he did during his first term. He is also likely to open up lands in the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to drilling and mining. And he is planning to repeal parts of the Inflation Reduction Act that benefit electric vehicles.
I can see Trump leaving the tax rebates alone, but, taking a chainsaw to the EV mandate. He’s said it many times: if you want one, get one. Government should not force you to get one.
Trump is able to make all of these changes because, in a government designed to have checks and balances, modern-day presidents have an unusual amount of autonomy to shape climate and energy policy.
Suddenly the NY Times is not happy with the Unilateral President. They were constantly blowing a gasket over this when Bush43 was president, but, had no problem when Obama and Biden were in office. Perhaps Biden shouldn’t have gone so far in his use of executive power that allows Trump to roll it back.
During Trump’s first term, he used executive actions to undo much of President Barack Obama’s climate work. President Biden then followed suit, using executive actions to reinstate some Obama policies.
This tit-for-tat exchange has left the United States with a scattershot approach to climate policy during a decade when the effects of global warming have become increasingly clear.
Hopefully Trump will buckle down and forget about all the stuff he did in his first term and just focus on getting things done, like crushing the climate cult in the federal government.
I have a solution. The House and Senate should get together and pass climate regulation that cannot be ping-ponged by whatever President sets in the oval office. The problem, of course, is that the country is split 50/50.
I personally have no problem with solar, wind, or EVs as long as I don’t have to buy them.
My experience researching Solar and having estimates done on my home, as well as calling my insurance company and a few other insurance companies to get some information, is that I don’t make these kinds of investments without extensive research done by me rather than the guys trying to con me out of my money!
My solar panels would cost me 55,000 dollars, but the government rebated me a whopping 7,000 dollars. More precisely, I got to pay 7,000 less in taxes on tax day. I didn’t get 7,000 knocked off my bill, so I would be financing 7,000 less and paying much less interest and payments on a 20-year loan.
Additionally, this came with a battery bank that stored power, which needed to be replaced every 7-12 years. The cost? 22,000 dollars a pop. So basically, every 10 years, there was another 22k cost to the price of solar panels. This battery bank is not essential, but it does provide you with the ability to require ZERO electricity from the electric company even though, by law, you still have to be hooked up to their grid.
OR I could pull a ton of money out of a 401k, making roughly 8-10 percent on that 55k and losing 4000-5000 dollars per year in interest in my 401k to get a one-time 7k rebate. But I would have saved myself about 3600 dollars per year, and don’t get me started on selling your electricity back to the electric company.
Selling your excess electricity nets you about 12 dollars a month. Wow, I was speechless.
In short, I would pay my electricity bill in installments for 20 years, which would save me very little when you include lost interest on the 401k or interest plus monthly payments for a 20-year loan to finance panels that might not outlast the loan. LOLOLOL.
If it hailed and I needed a new roof or just needed a new roof, I would have to pay $2,500 out of pocket to have someone come out and remove the panels and then put them back once the roof was completed. No, my insurance company did not figure that in or pay for it to be done. That is on the homeowner.
In short, solar panels are a rich man’s play. Hell, I am doing okay. I am not rich, but I could not justify the expense given that several trees around our house would have to be cut down to produce enough electricity to make the cost reasonably attractive. This is/was a NO-GO for my wife, who lives in her yard and grows all kinds of CARBON OFFSETS for the environment.
Gimme my fossil fuels and force the oil/gas industry to sequester carbon. When the car batteries make a real breakthrough, the combustion engine will die rapidly. Until then, I will be a dinosaur and call a spade a spade. Solar energy is not for the faint of heart.
I have observed that anything the left is for is bad for the world, America, my family, my friends, myself and any future posterity. That’s no exaggeration.
Therefore, out of my desire to preserve those things I will automatically be against anything the left supports and for anything the left is against. That includes politics, economics, science, religion and entertainment.
It seems easy enough just read a Elwood comment and adopt the opposite.
After the last great landslide we need to consolidate our power, plan for the future and destroy our enemies because I am pretty sure they plan on doing that to us. Remember, the left still believes men can turn into women. Just ask Elwood we/us.
LGB,
Your obsession is noted.
Now, “Live long and prosper!”
I knew there was a good reason I voted for him!~
God gave us the Earth to exploit for our own purposes and desires. Period. Energy Plan? Drill and dig, baby. We have centuries worth of coal underground!
We can all agree that national parks and monuments are a waste of valuable ($) resources! The obligations of humans are to humans, not snail darters, kelp or raptors.
God put our oil, coal and gas underground as a challenge to human ingenuity. Just as He put dinosaur fossils underground to test our faith. The same with the gold and silver we need to survive. God said, “Come and get it, men. If you have the balls!”
If God had had concerns about global warming He wouldn’t have made our oil out of long chains of carbon! He wouldn’t have made our industrial energy dependent on the oxygen we breathe! Are the warmists really claiming God had no plan??? Heretics.
Future generations, our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren will have to find their own way, just as our generation has. What did the so-called ‘greatest generation’ do for us?
God gave US the Earth. He gave us cows, chickens, bison, pigs, turkeys, sausage and BBQ to sustain US! He gave us corn, wheat and soybeans to feed OUR food! If God wanted us to stand and stare at great plains He wouldn’t have invented feed lots!
Why do we buy oil from the Sand People while we let our own oil and coal waste away underground? It makes no sense! We should do as God intended and drill and dig our own.
Mr Musk already has plans for us to live, drill and dig on Mars. It is our destiny to be a multi-world species.
Is there really any further question that Donald J Trump is an agent sent to us by God? The Father, Son, Holy Ghost and the Donald.
Mr Dana typed: I knew there was a good reason I voted for him!~
What was it??