Here’s a case study of the Republican Party as the quintessential controlled opposition party. Our country is bitterly divided, and half of the Republican base will never willingly embrace a Democratic agenda. Republican states also control much of the country, which is the battleground for our nation’s energy, and therefore our freedom and prosperity.
When Republicans were in the minority, they voted unanimously against the Green New Deal, casting themselves as opposed to it and preventing any legitimate opposition from emerging, then, once they were back in the majority, they implemented the Green New Deal in Republican-leaning states, opposed total repeal at the federal level, and ultimately accomplished something the Democrats could not have accomplished on their own.
There is no middle ground when it comes to fake green energy: you either believe the truth or you believe the global warming lie.
They did the same thing with Obamacare, and now they’re doing the same thing with the Green New Deal.
Last week, 18 Republican members of the House of Representatives letter House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) called on Republicans not to repeal the “energy tax plan” that includes huge subsidies for unviable energy sources. Similar to the Obamacare approach, which focused only on the funding mechanism without addressing the bill’s core issues, the 18 signers limited their opposition to the Inflation Control Act to the flawed process by which it was passed and the revenue it would generate from increased tax compliance for the IRS. They did not mention that the entire bill is based on a global warming myth that they refuse to face.
Short-term thinking
Why should we fund a wholesale transition from viable to unviable energy — a form of energy that is bad for Republican land use and the environment — simply because it temporarily creates fake jobs in their districts?
The same Republicans wax poetic about inflation while supporting endless deficit spending that harms consumers to produce products like solar, wind, EVs, and impose even more expensive and unfeasible projects on consumers. On the one hand, they decry the loss of “jobs” when subsidies are eliminated, but don’t give a damn about the effects of inflation or the unnatural production of unsafe, expensive products. As a result, the cost of replacing a damaged electric car is Auto insurance rates have risenEven for regular cars, auto insurance has been one of the most inflationary items in the Consumer Price Index over the past few years.
The environmental scam is a classic example of illusory job creation. Misallocating resources to subsidize projects that the market can never sustain leads to higher prices and debt in the long run, and the long-term loss of permanent jobs. If we are going to incur debt to subsidize jobs, at least reallocating that subsidy to building oil refineries and nuclear power plants would benefit consumers and the long-term viability of the economy. But Republicans only seem to care about short-term profits and donor dollars.
Republican calls for fake “green” jobs have come recently. Bloombergpoints out that “the majority of IRA investments flow to Republican swing states in the South and Midwest, where land, labor and energy are cheap.”
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp have turned their states into meccas for foreign companies building electric vehicle factories. Georgia State Representative Buddy Carter, who owns a government-backed venture called the Socialist EV Factory, said, “I’m [the new administration] This is to avoid sudden changes.”
Sure, we can print $1.2 trillion out of thin air for IRA subsidies and make Americans pay for them, raise auto insurance rates, and create the safety hazard of electric car fires everywhere, but we can also celebrate ourselves for creating at least some temporary jobs.
What’s shocking is that with so many tailwinds blowing at the EV industry, subsidized companies still can’t get their absurd, venture-socialist business model to work, even with the backing of consumers and taxpayers.
Ford is Loss of about $50,000 The company expects its total losses to increase to $2.1 billion in 2022 from $4.5 billion last year as it sells more electric vehicles per electric vehicle this year. Stellantis and Nissan Mercedes is facing deteriorating business performance and slowing sales growth. Free Fall In EV vehicles, Volkswagen Walk back Overall electric vehicle production strategy. Even under the most favorable circumstances created by governments around the world, EVs still cannot achieve profitability.
Trillions of dollars for lies
Republicans who demand continued subsidies to a bankrupt industry are being dishonest. There is no middle ground when it comes to fake green energy. You either believe the truth or the global warming lie. If you believe the lie, taxpayers and consumers will be burdened with an endless number of subsidies, mandates and pain to make the “transition” to an energy that doesn’t work.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has already acknowledged that the green energy sector will cost $3 trillion per year through 2050, with $1 trillion of that coming in annual subsidies in the United States alone – an amount that exceeds military spending.
If we don’t eliminate these subsidies now, they will continue to exist indefinitely. The Republican plan to maintain the status quo rather than expand them is like trying to hold back a boulder in the middle of a steep cliff.
Republican governors and legislatures must veto these projects before they get off the ground. At the national level, President Trump and Republican congressional leaders must commit to eliminating 100% of Green New Deal subsidies.
The Republican Party’s current strategy is a classic controlled opposition ploy, and it illustrates why nothing changes when Republicans win elections. Republicans claim to oppose fossil fuel mandates or bans, but by supporting fake energy subsidies, they are acting like a frog trying to carry a scorpion above water. They are promoting an energy transition that is not viable.
The sole purpose of spending trillions of dollars to support a product that never works on its own is to end the use of effective natural fuels forever.
Green energy is a euphemism for no energy. Subsidizing this fraud is funding our destruction rather than funding job creation.
