Biden's radical climate agenda wants to keep you unplugged
Most of the electric power supply in America and around the world comes from fossil fuels. Coal, gas and oil power plants account for more than 60% of the electric power we use in the United States today. Only about 20% comes from wind and solar power.
Hold that thought. Because the Biden administration has announced what The Washington Post calls a plan to "drastically reduce (power plant) greenhouse gas emissions." These cuts are so stringent that most of our gas- and coal-fired plants would be technologically incapable of complying. But here's what's sinister: That's the point of these rules -- to wrench fossil fuels from our energy supply altogether.
Our electric grid system is already stressed to the limits. States that have tried to switch to green energy -- California comes to mind -- are having to undergo dangerous blackouts and brownouts. This is what happens in Third World countries. It isn't supposed to happen here.
If you want to cripple an industrial economy like that of the U.S., a good way to do so is to dismantle its energy supply. Who is the president residing in the White House these days? Joe Biden or Dr. Evil?
Biden to Release Regulations to Kill Coal Plants
Biden sees that as a must to meet his pledge to cut 80 percent of the generating sector’s emissions by 2030 compared with 2005 levels and reach net zero five years later. Those goals are part of Biden’s broader commitment to address climate change — which he called an “existential threat” in his State of the Union address. They also fulfill his recent promise to shut down coal plants in the United States. The United Nations called on wealthy nations to do away with unabated coal use this decade to keep the Paris Agreement’s temperature goals in line and give less-wealthy countries time to act.
EPA is expected to advance six rules this spring and summer that could levy new costs on coal-fired units. These include two actions teeing up tougher rules for mercury and air toxics, a final rule for pollution that crosses state lines, a final rule for coal plant waste that gets into groundwater and a proposal for legacy combustion residuals. The two power plant carbon rules for new and existing units are set to be proposed in April.
In 2007, coal supplied about half of all generation on the U.S. power grid. In 2022, that figure dropped to 20 percent, behind natural gas and renewables when combining the generation shares from hydroelectricity, wind, solar, geothermal and biomass. This year nuclear power is also expected to overtake coal, dropping coal’s share to fourth place. Most projections, however, expect coal to occupy a small share of the market through 2030 and beyond despite U.S. climate envoy John Kerry’s declaration at climate talks in Glasgow in 2021 that “by 2030 in the United States, we won’t have coal.” Analysts expect that challenges associated with bringing new power sources online will help keep some coal plants operating, despite cost and climate considerations.