Remember at the beginning of 2020 when gas was $2.59 per gallon when President Trump left office, until June 2022 when prices jumped 62 cents per gallon in one month? Now, according to AAA, gas is at an average of $4.59 per gallon and diesel has risen to $5.62 per gallon.

Biden keeps saying he has lowered gas prices. He’s right that they’ve fallen from the peak of above $5 a gallon in his financially disastrous first 18 months in office. Of that 18.4 cents-per-gallon goes to pay federal fuel tax, and 38 cents goes to Oregon's state fuel tax, which is scheduled to increase to 40 cents in 2024.

Climate change proponents in Europe and in the Biden administration are bribing governments in poor nations to endanger their energy sectors, impoverish their people, and actually discourage the economic growth they desperately need. South Africa’s electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa stated that the new climate change agreement with wealthy countries will be a disaster for his country – causing power blackouts and energy shortages. He denounced Western attempts to turn South Africa into a “guinea pig” for the worldwide Green New Deal.

Climate change “justice” isn’t just impacting poor countries. Where is the justice when low- and moderate-income families spend a larger percent of their income on energy and gas, and rising gas and energy prices take a bigger bite out of their income? The options provided to coup with climate change is also out of their reach.

Oregon’s answer is to increase energy costs and restrictive building regulations. Omission restrictions are increasing cost on everything from food and housing to transportation. To compensate, provide incentives to go electric, give away over $2 billion for affordable housing including $7.5 million in down payment assistance. Governor Kotek signed a number of bills this week that neither helps low-income families or the economy.

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She sign a bill in the Climate Resilience Package Investment (HB 3409, HB 3630), which invests $90 million in community-focused and forward-looking solutions with the idea to increase energy efficiency, keep Oregonians safe from extreme weather, and grant counties up to $50,000 for developing energy resilience plans in the event of grid disruptions to basic services with a focus on an equitable energy system. Appropriates $4,641.112 general funds.

But is all this energy subsidy, caused by climate change regulations, really necessary? The U.S. per capita person emissions are lower today than at any time in the last 60 years and lower than during World War 1 when the economy was less than one-tenth as large as it is today. Since 1990 per capita carbon emissions has decreased nearly 15t. How can they claim that productivity is the culprit?

Even the Paris accord climate negotiators agreed there is currently no reliable accurate way to measure emissions or how much CO2 is coming from individual nations. They admit the science of accurate carbon accounting is in its infancy and there are gaps in the data. “Even developed nations with lots of climate scientists do not deliver demonstrably reliable emission statistics,” according to Sourish Basu, a research scientist at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He reported that national CO2 emissions are only known “to within 5-10 percent for most developed countries.”

Since U.N. executive secretary, Christiana Figueres, admitted at the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2017 that Global Warming was framed to destroy capitalism, and not an environmental goal to save the world from ecological calamity, the world, U.S. and Oregon remain duped pursuing a false narrative.


--Donna Bleiler

Post Date: 2023-07-28 12:01:08

Last Update: 2023-07-28 16:36:23