Biden & Democrats Disguise US 3.four Billion Tons Of CO2 Financial savings From Pure Gasoline – Watts Up With That?
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin
In his first week in office, Biden and his Democrats ordered the suspension of leases for fossil fuel development in states and offshore waters, and a “rigorous review” of leasing and licensing practices. He also formed a civilian “Climate Corps,” directed federal agencies to source zero-emission vehicles from American production for their fleets, and scrapped a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Biden called on Congress to cut fossil fuel subsidies.
Opposition in states like Texas and New Mexico are predicting what is likely to be a major issue in the 2022 midterm elections that see Democrats defending or contesting seats in moderate Congressional districts that rely on oil and gas.
In September 2020, the Energy Information Administration released a report titled US Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, largely ignored in 2019, which includes an analysis of the country’s CO2 emissions from 1990 showing the 30th Years since the United States records benchmark year of the Framework Convention of Nations on Climate Change.
The data showed that US CO2 emissions for 2019 were down 2.8%, or 150 million tons (MMmt) from 2018, with changes in the power-fuel mix being the most important factor leading to a Decrease in carbon-related CO2 emissions by 15% or 184 MMmt.
The most significant contribution of the fuel mix to this result of reducing CO2 emissions was the continued increased use of lower and more efficient natural gas as a substitute for electricity generation from coal, followed by increased use of non-carbon CO2 emission reductions.
Most importantly, the report showed that US CO2 emissions rose an average of 1.0% per year from 1990 to 2007, but that since then, CO2 emissions growth has declined by an average of 1.3% per year is.
Since peaking in 2007 at 6,003 million t, energy-related CO2 emissions in the USA have fallen by 14.5% or 873 million t.
The decline in CO2 emissions from the use of coal fuels due to the conversion of the electricity fuel mix to natural gas has dominated the decline since 2007.
U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions from coal decreased more than 50% from 2007 to 2019, more than a billion tons.
Through the increased use of natural gas as a substitute for electricity generation from coal, CO2 emissions are significantly reduced, since with the same energy generation with lower emissions, natural gas with higher efficiency reduces CO2 emissions by around 60% compared to coal
The increased use of non-carbon power generation has also contributed to reducing CO2 emissions in the US since 2007, but not to the same extent as the increased use of natural gas.
The EIA report highlighted the exceptional fact that between 2005 and 2019, cumulative CO2 emissions reductions in the US due to fuel shifts in power generation from coal to natural gas and also non-carbon generation totaled 5,475 million tonnes.
Of this total amount, 3,351 million t CO2 reductions (61.2%) resulted from the lower use of coal and the increased use of natural gas and 2,125 million t CO2 reductions (38.8%) from the lower use of coal and the increased use of resources to produce non-carbon.
The increased availability of natural gas with lower cost, higher efficiency and lower emissions has been achieved in large part through fracking technology, which has been incompetently attacked by Biden and his Democrats. These energy-conscious politicians have vilified the initiative and skill of the country’s energy producers who have successfully achieved increased natural gas production that has made it possible to achieve huge savings and economically beneficial CO2 emissions reductions.
Biden and his Democrats, along with their media sponsors, have dishonestly withheld from the American people that increased use of natural gas has reduced 3.4 billion tons of CO2 emissions, 60% more than government-mandated costly renewables over the same period exceptional benefits while reducing energy costs for consumers.
Biden and his Climate Armist Democrats have launched a grossly misguided purely political war on natural gas that will deprive the American people of a clean, efficient, and inexpensive source of energy that can and should continue to reduce the use of coal in the future, and reduce even further Cause CO2 emissions without harming the economy through ill-advised, government-mandated use of expensive, unreliable renewable energy.
California has been pursuing its climate alarmist campaign to reduce carbon emissions since 2006 by mandating the use of expensive, unreliable renewable energies while implementing a plan to eliminate all fossil fuels in electricity generation. In 2019, renewables accounted for about 32% of California’s electricity, while renewables accounted for about 11.1% of total US electricity generation.
Over the past decade, average household electricity tariffs in California have increased three times the average household electricity tariffs in the United States, with current California electricity tariffs about 50% above the US average.
Also, California has now reached the point where overuse of renewable energy has created grid reliability issues and blackouts that plagued the state last summer.
The grid reliability problems associated with the large use of unreliable renewable energies also affect EU countries that have stupidly mandated excessive use of renewable energies.
Biden, Democrats and their media cabal have been hiding from the American people the fact that global carbon emissions and energy use are completely dominated and controlled by the world’s developing countries, which now account for over 65% of current global carbon emissions with China and China India is undertaking enormous increases in the consumption of coal and other fossil fuels, both now and in the future.
Biden’s Cabal has kept the American people a secret that the world’s developing countries increased global CO2 emissions by more than 7.5 billion tons (1.5 billion tons) in the 15-year period from 2005 to 2019 covered in this September 2020 EIA report – times the total US CO2 emissions) China’s contribution to this increase is 3.7 billion tons.
The American people are also hiding the fact that the industrialized nations of the world, including the US and the EU, reduced global CO2 emissions by 1.55 billion tons over the same period, with those reductions reflecting the steadily increasing increase in solely controlled global ones CO2 emissions cannot be stopped by the world’s developing countries.
In addition, they have kept the American people a secret that the US is leading the way in reducing global CO2 emissions with over 900 million tons of CO2 reductions in all countries of the world during this period, with these reductions mainly due to the increased use of natural gas technology can be obtained from fracking.
If Biden and his Democrats continue their faulty course of mandatory costly unreliable renewable energy while trying to destroy the availability of natural gas with lower cost, higher efficiency and lower emissions that can effectively and efficiently replace coal fuel, the end result will be economically damaging electricity costs for the US with a simultaneous deterioration in the reliability of the US electricity grid and the destruction of economically productive and necessary energy-related jobs.
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