Climate Activists follow Mao's Great Leap Forward

Climate activists and their Democrat politicians are waging a clandestine war against the American people. This war is being waged from the Nation's Capital to every home without identifying the verifiable factors that prove the "Climate Will No Longer Change." Nor the cost of the American people's Blood and Treasure in achieving their dream.  


While President Biden says he supports oil production, his administration has done the opposite by limiting the number of Federal acres leased for oil and gas production. In addition, Biden abandoned a significant oil and gas drilling project in Alaska started under President Trump.  

While climate activists and their Democrat politicians say they support clean air, their clean air legislation is targeted to shut down industries they don't like, not improving the air we breathe. As an example, Earth Justice's (motto "Because the Earth Needs a Good Lawyer") states, "Exposed communities need solidarity and support from people around the U.S. to ensure EPA adopts the most robust and protective limits on toxic air."

In 1977, 0.2 million barrels of refinery capacity was added (the last refinery constructed), and in 2019, 1.5 million barrels of refinery capacity were eliminated. From 1977 to 2022, the American population increased by almost fifty percent, and oil refinery capacity decreased by nearly 5%. No wonder diesel stockpiles are at record lows.

Before 2016, climate activists and Democrat politicians told us the goal was to clean up coal-fired power plants' exhaust gases. However, by 2016 Hillary Clinton clearly stated her and the climate activists' dream, "We're going to put a lot of coal miners and companies out of business." Since then, coal mines and coal-fired electric power plants have been under siege. From 2016 through 2022, coal-fired electrical generation has decreased from 1,250 to 800 billion kilo-watthours. It is projected that another 200 billion will be removed by 2029. So much for the billions wasted cleaning up the exhaust stack gases when the actual goal was to shut them down.

Climate activists and their Democrat politicians say their energy policy will save us money, but it does the exact opposite. A Washington Post article," Fuel to power your car, heat your home or cook your food is all more expensive and driving inflation," states that natural gas, coal, or petroleum is the primary driver of inflation. In addition, the US Congress Joint Economic Committee reported on June 10, 2022, "For the average American household, inflation will cost an extra $7,620 in the coming year. For the climate activist, no cost is too high for the American people to pay."  

European politicians have realized the climate activists' promises of cheap, plentiful renewable energy are empty promises. In 2021 the United Kingdom restarted an old coal power plant to meet its electrical demand. In 2022 Germany, France, Austria, and the Netherlands resumed the operation of coal-fired power plants to address their electrical power needs.


Climate Activist: Replace Natural Gas & Coal with Wind & Solar

American climate activists noticed Europe's backsliding and are following the strategy outlined in "The Art of War." "When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home."

Climate activists and Democrat politicians are working:

• To eliminate new oil and gas leases, especially in Alaska, where "By law, Alaska is required to remove all traces of the pipeline after oil extraction is complete."

•For the destruction of oil refineries resulting in the permanent reduction of diesel and gasoline supplies.

•For the destruction of closed coal-fired power plants despite delays in building a solar plant to replace the coal-fired plant (Power Company of New Mexico, San Juan Generating Plant).

Climate activists are forcing a renewable energy-based economy upon the American people just as Mao Zedong forced the industrial-based economy (the Great Leap Forward) upon the Chinese people. Forty-five million Chinese died during Mao's Great Leap Forward. In 2021, 200-800 Texans died from exposure to cold when the electrical generation (#1 natural gas, #2 wind, #3 coal) couldn't keep up with the demand during a winter storm. Climate activists are committed to their "Great Leap Forward" regardless of the lives lost.  

Write your Members of Congress and state legislators to demand they provide verifiable evidence that the climate activist policies they are enacting will stop the existential threat of climate change at what cost? Otherwise, they are risking the lives and livelihood of the American People.   

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