President Biden is all about clean energy. He has basically closed down the fossil fuel industry which has driven up the prices on everything.
He has spent billions of dollars on clean energy and the only thing green about the “Green New Deal” is the green money lining the pockets of those in that industry. Truth be known the US has over the last 20 years has reduced its carbon foot print by 50% and with technology continue to reduce our foot print. As President Biden grinds the American Middle Class into poverty with his policies, China and India pump out air pollution to which we have no answer. He has no clue that no industrial nation can survive on renewable energy alone, as it is not a reliable source of energy. He will continue down his “know it all path” until it is too late and destroy our country.
Paul Quaglia
Billerica
Stephen Moore’s love affair with natural gas continues (“Moore: Why has Biden declared war on natural gas?”), 8/25). The mountain of misinformation he puts out is troubling, to put it mildly.
Why are environmentally conscious Americans against further natural gas extraction? Here are just two reasons. One, it’s estimated that fracked shale gas wells, for example, may have methane leakage rates as high as 7.9%. The leaked gas is methane, a potent greenhouse gas 86 times more warming than carbon dioxide. Two, natural gas extraction itself is hazardous. Drilling and hydraulic fracking expose local communities to earthquakes, significant air and water pollution, and a range of health problems, including headaches, asthma, and cancer.
Fossil fuels, including gas, are anything but clean. Our transition to clean energy sources is necessary and happening fast. Try to keep up, Mr. Moore.
Frederick Hewett
Cambridge
Years ago when seatbelt chimes started cropping up in all new cars, as a principled Libertarian I was not happy. “What do you care,” one friend asked me once during a tirade on the subject at the time, “you always wear your seatbelt.” That’s not the point, these chimes were installed in ALL new cars sold in the United States, even ones sold in states that do not require wearing a seatbelt, and there was no legislative deliberation behind doing so – it was the Lobbyist-Thinktank Industrial Complex in the Washington swamp overstepping again. Looking around today, I feel totally vindicated.
Without even mentioning the authoritarian left’s actions during COVID, let’s just look at “regulations” emanating out of Democrat-run Washington in the era of Biden. The federal government now dictates what kind of stove, toilet, ceiling fan or lightbulbs you can use, all of our new cars shut themselves off at red lights, and this week, President Biden’s alcohol czar, Dr. George Koob, told the Daily Mail that the USDA could change their recommendations to 2 beers a week for all Americans. What is an alcohol czar, why do we need one, and I am sure all Americans will drink less once this authoritarian administrative state is out of power in 2025.
Nick McNulty
Windham, NH