Biden's handlers' war on energy continues
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The Biden administration has announced a proposal to block 1.6 million acres of public Colorado land from oil and gas development amid legal challenges filed by environmental groups.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a draft Thursday, proposing that just 382,000 acres of Colorado land be reserved for fossil fuel production, marking an 80% decrease compared to the original 1.6 million acres.
“Public participation is key to the development of Resource Management Plans,” BLM Upper Colorado River District Manager Greg Larson said. “This new analysis will ensure the BLM’s management of these areas will best serve our multiple use mission for the future.”
“I’m very encouraged to see BLM listening closely to local communities who have been asking for more than a decade for the agency to protect wildlands, wildlife, water, and our climate,” Will Roush, the executive director of Wilderness Workshop, said.
“The draft plan considers common sense closures to new oil and gas leasing of additional public lands with documented community and conservation values,” he added. “This planning area contains some of our state’s most important wildlife habitat, treasured recreation areas, wildlands that should be protected for future generations, critical water resources, famed Colorado scenery, and Indigenous cultural sites.”
Have you noticed that every bit of nonsense spewed by Democrats in the past decade is labeled “common sense”? “Common sense” gun confiscation laws, “common sense” whackadoodle bans on natural gas, internal combustion engines, and on and on; who could oppose policies that are just common sense? Bah.
Thursday’s announcement is just the latest in the Biden assault on prosperity as the people running the White House shut down an ever-increasing amount of federal land — and the government owns 70% of the land out west — for oil production. The flying monkeys of the press try to minimize and bury the stories but they needn’t bother: the American sheeple aren’t paying any attention to what’s being done, and don’t care.
The policies and over-regulation are being assailed on every front and from every industry. It is absolutely crippling the competitive edge German companies once enjoyed. What employee hires happen are not going towards production, but towards administrative offices, just to handle the red tape engendered by the restrictive regulatory climate. In an interview, Toralf Haag, the CEO of the German Voith Group, was pessimistically blunt about industry’s future in Germany.
Companies are pulling up stakes.
…When asked about the current state of business and investment opportunities in Germany, he wasn’t very optimistic, not only about the prospects for his company (based in Heidenheim, operating primarily in energy, automotive and paper industries), but the overall situation.
“Investment decisions in Germany are becoming increasingly difficult,” Haag said, adding: “To be honest, at the moment we tend to choose Eastern Europe, Asia or the USA when it comes to new production facilities because the costs for energy and personnel are particularly high in Germany while at the same time bureaucracy and regulation are increasing.”
[Shifting production to the US is very much a temporary “solution”, which I predict foreign manufacturers will soon discover, and adjust accordingly – ED]
He lamented that the Voith Group was forced to hire another 30 people in the management in the last year or two just to be able to handle all the new regulations and obligations introduced due to the ever-growing red tape.
“I would like to invite the employees from the ministries to check what effect their specifications have directly inside a company – whether they are practicable and sensible. In order for Voith to make significant investments in Germany again, the framework conditions must change fundamentally. Unfortunately, I don’t see that at the moment,” Haag stated.
He said that the danger of Germany’s further deindustrialization is “very great”, primarily because of the reduction of industrial activity due to the tendency of many German companies to relocate to other countries.
But sweating doesn’t necessarily mean that the Greens are willing to change. They are still pushing transitions to electrical appliances and systems that they do not have the electrical generation capacity for.
At least 500,000 heat pumps should be connected to the grid next year, and by 2030 the total nationwide number should be six million. This means that the demand for electricity will increase sharply. In addition, there are thousands upon thousands of private charging stations for e-cars and photovoltaic systems, which put additional strain on the power grid. In some places there is already a crunch: transformer stations, connections and substations have to be rebuilt or replaced.
Can our power grid shoulder the heat transition?
Current: No! The regional suppliers are alarmed. “As of now, the grid is not yet ready for a complete energy transition. That’s why we have to invest so enormously,” says SachsenEnergie from Dresden
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Blaming the Nordstream sabotage and war in Ukraine for the energy woes buffeting manufacturing has run its course. Industry people aren’t falling for the “Russian in the tailpipe” jokes anymore.
…”The German government is pursuing very foolish policies in other regards as well. First of all, there is the so-called green transformation or green agenda. Germany is trying to replace not only Russian energy but all fossil fuels, and it’s phased out nuclear energy,” Beck said.
