JOE BIDEN PLANS TO SHOVE $70K ELECTRIC CARS UP OUR NOSES - GUESS LIKE HE SHOVED HIS MASSIVE INVASION OF 'CHEAP' LABOR OVER OUR ONCE BORDER?

 

America's Coming Energy Crisis

By John Kudla

President Joe Biden and the apocalyptic climate cult within the Democrat party believe that climate change is the greatest threat to the country.  That's right, the greatest threat is not nuclear war, not unlimited unlawful immigration, not inflation, or out-of-control spending.  Instead, it's the slow warming of the atmosphere, which they believe is caused solely by burning fossil fuels.

In 2021, Biden signed an executive order that decreed that all federal contracts for goods and services to be carbon-neutral by 2050.  Some states and businesses are following Biden's lead.  California and six other states intend to ban the sale of gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035.  California also wants to ban the sale of gas-powered water heaters and furnaces by 2030.

Now the Environmental Protection Agency has piled on.  The agency is proposing vehicle pollution limits for 2032 that are so strict that they will force roughly two thirds of new vehicles sold to be electric.

This may sound glorious to climate warriors, but they have no idea what they are getting us into.  Transitioning to net zero involves decarbonizing electrical generation, industry, and transportation all at the same time.  It also involves creating net-zero carbon buildings, even though none presently exists.  

Let's assume Joe Biden and subsequent leaders can force a national conversion away from fossil fuels by 2050.  Can this plan work?

Let's start with the roughly 263.5 million cars and light trucks registered in the US in 2020.  Only 1% are electric, meaning that around 261 million are not.  Since Americans drive an average of 13,476 miles per year, we drive approximately 37 miles daily.  If an electric vehicle gets about 3–4 miles per kilowatt hour, that works out to around 10.5 kWh per day.  So the electricity needed to fuel future E.V.s is approximately 2.74 billion kWh/day.

What about converting gas appliances to electricity?

There are roughly 130 million households in the U.S.  Around 40% of them, or 52 million, have gas stoves.  Assuming that each household uses 40 therms of gas per year for cooking — a therm is equivalent to 29.307 kWh — this works out to roughly 0.11 therms, or 3.22 kWh per day.  Multiply by 52 million, and we need 167 million kWh/day to replace gas stoves with electric ones.

Gas dryers would be the easiest to convert because only 22.75 million households use them.  Let's assume the average gas dryer uses 70 therms of gas per year.  If we do the math, we need approximately 128 million kWh/day of generating capacity to replace them.

Gas water heaters are more common.  Around 60% of households have one.  Assuming the average amount of gas used to heat water is 258 therms per year, we will need 1.6 billion kWh/day to switch them all.

Adding E.V.s to the electricity needed for gas appliances yields roughly 4.64 billion kWh/day.  Dividing by 24 hours tells us we need an additional generating capacity of 193,000,000 kW every hour, or 193 gigawatts, to handle an average load.  Since that load varies by as much as 50% between daylight and darkness, we really need around 290 gigawatts.

Gas furnace conversion is a bit more challenging to estimate because furnace usage is cyclical and more heavily utilized in the winter months.  So what we need to know is the peak demand for gas.

The peak residential demand is around 30 billion cubic feet per day above baseline during cold nights in the winter or 1.25 billion cubic feet per hour.  Assuming that the increase is almost all due to furnaces, the electrical energy needed to replace them is roughly 366,000,000 kWh or 366 gigawatts during maximum demand.

Adding gas furnaces to everything else means we need around 656 gigawatts of additional electricity.

Remember that this estimate does not include commercial, industrial, and governmental natural gas usage, which is more than twice as much.  If we ballpark that number, we need another 1,500 gigawatts.  So this means we need something like 2,150 gigawatts of additional power. 

In 2021, roughly 60% of U.S. power generation, or around 720 gigawatts, came from fossil fuels.  Since this will have to be replaced to get to net zero, we can add this to the total required giving us 2,870 gigawatts.

The reliability of renewable energy is a separate issue.  As others have noted, wind and solar deliver variable amounts of power even when working, which means they are limited by their reliability.  Wind and solar average maximum power roughly 30% of the time.  Natural gas and coal have a reliability factor of around 52%.  So to provide the same amount of reliable power, we will need roughly 75% more wind and solar capacity, or another 2,130 gigawatts.  This gets us to 5,000 gigawatts of renewable energy.

Since roughly 6% of electrical power is lost in transmission, we multiply 5,000 by 1.06 and round up.  This means that approximately 5,300 gigawatts of renewable electrical power will be required to replace fossil fuels.

Is this a problem?  You bet it is.

The entire electrical generating capacity of the United States in 2022 was just over 1,200 gigawatts.  A total conversion to electricity would require us to more than quadruple our present capacity.

Even if we assume improvements in energy distribution and end-use efficiency by 2050, the improvements may be offset by the U.S. population growth of roughly 2 million people per year.  Can we possibly generate this much electricity without the use of fossil fuels?

The numbers are not encouraging.  In 2022, approximately 46 gigawatts of mainly wind and solar were planned additions.  In 2023, 54.5 gigawatts, again mostly wind and solar, will be added.  These numbers do not count power plant retirements, averaging 10–11 gigawatts annually.

This is nowhere near enough.  We are barely adding 40 gigawatts per year.  At this rate, it will take over 130 years to create enough generating capacity to support the demand for electricity in 2050.

In addition to wind and solar, we will need battery backup systems and hundreds of miles of transmission lines, which add to the cost.  The batteries do not generate power.  Instead, they smooth the energy flow and provide backup power for a maximum of 12 hours.

We can expect the fossil fuel panic to cause significant problems soon.  Rolling blackouts and calls to restrict electricity usage, especially in the summer and winter months, as demand for electricity spikes are not far away.  In fact, the California electrical grid may have reached the tipping point just last year.

If this wasn't crazy enough, the United Nations recently claimed we need to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 because the world is fast approaching catastrophic levels of heating.

This is just nonsense.  Unfortunately, the Ministries of Magic and Climate Change, AKA the U.S. Department of Energy and the EPA, seem to be under the control of the same climate-obsessed, fossil fuel–hating dark wizards infesting the U.N.

No one is going to die from climate change.  But what happens if our save-the-earth renewable electric grid falls apart in the dead of winter in sub-zero temperatures?  Will the EPA let you burn your furniture to stay alive?

This madness has to stop.

You can read my opinion of U.N. climate predictions here.

Image: Eric Fischer via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (cropped).

Poll: Only 22% Say Joe Biden’s America Headed in Right Direction, Down 6 Points Since January

1,278

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

WENDELL HUSEBØ

15 Apr 20231,099

3:08

Only 22 percent of Americans believe President Joe Biden’s America is headed in the right direction, down six points since January, a CIVIQS poll found Friday.

While fewer Americans say the nation is headed in an increasingly right direction, 68 percent say it is headed in the wrong direction, up six points since January.

The CIVIQS rolling job approval average tracked 472,851 responses between January 19, 2017, and April 13, 2023. The CIVIQS tracking model is meant to capture the shifts in attitude of various groups over time across all 50 states and Washington, DC. These changes can happen either over time or rapidly.

Two major political events have occurred since January. The nation suffered a banking crisis, and former President Donald Trump was indicted by a far-left district attorney from Manhattan.

The banking crisis was caused, in part, by sharp interest rate hikes to tamp down Biden’s inflation. The Federal Reserve continued to increase interest rates in March to tamp down inflation, a decision subject to speculation by financial experts, as the central bank weighed reducing soaring inflation and the stability of the banking system.

Biden’s 40-year-high inflation, on average, cost American households an extra $5,200 last year, or $433 per month, according to Bloomberg.

Ninety percent of voters are worried about Biden’s soaring inflation, the top concern among those sampled in a March Fox News poll. Overall, 70 percent of Americans feel financially stressed in Biden’s America, a CNBC Your Money Financial Confidence survey revealed Tuesday.

After the banking crisis, Trump was indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. This was historic, as no president or former president has ever been indicted, much less one campaigning for reelection.

A recent survey from YouGov/Yahoo found that most Americans do not think the New York grand jury’s actions will have a negative effect on Trump. Meanwhile, the former president took the lead over Biden in a hypothetical general election match-up after the indictment.

Additional polling shows the partisan nature of the indictment, according to legal experts, has not been lost on the electorate. Seventy-six percent of U.S. adult respondents believe politics influenced “the decision to indict Trump,” a CNN-commissioned poll found.

Bragg’s case has not been off to a good start. A federal court on Tuesday denied his request for a temporary restraining order to prevent House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) from questioning a former prosecutor about Bragg’s case against Trump.

Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.

FBI Has Spies in Catholic Churches to Hunt for ‘Domestic Terrorism’

Garland caught lying.

April 13, 2023 by Robert Spencer 8 Comments

A few weeks ago, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) asked Gestapo chief Merrick Garland, “Are you cultivating sources and spies in Latin Mass parishes and other Catholic parishes around the country?” Garland pleaded innocent, insisting, “No, the Justice Department does not do that and does not, uh, um, do investigations based on religion.” But it has now come to light — okay, get ready for the shock of your life — that Garland was lying. The feds did have informants in Catholic churches, snooping around and looking for evidence of that domestic terror threat that the Biden regime keeps insisting is the worst such threat we face today. Nor is there any indication that they’ve taken these spies out of the pews.

We all know that “domestic violent extremists,” a.k.a. “white supremacists,” are the biggest terror threat the nation faces today. After all, Old Joe Biden, Gestapo chief Merrick Garland, and the FBI have repeatedly told us so, and those sterling public servants wouldn’t lie to us, would they? In November 2021, FBI and Homeland Security Department officials increased investigations of “domestic extremists,” reiterating the claim that they are today’s foremost terror threat. The only problem with this was that there just weren’t enough “domestic violent extremists” to match the hysterical rhetoric, and so the FBI actually resorted to pressuring agents to inflate domestic extremism numbers, and even to fabricate such cases.

That imperative, plus the burning hatred that Catholic Joe’s regime clearly has for all forms of traditional Christianity and above all for pro-lifers, may have led to the fact that, as Fox News reported Monday, the FBI “recently sought to develop sources inside Christian churches and Catholic dioceses as part of an effort to combat domestic terrorism.” This is clear from internal FBI documents that the House Judiciary Committee released to the public on Monday.

The documents reveal that the FBI was attempting to use “mainline Catholic parishes” as “new avenues for tripwire and source development.” The feds wanted to educate sympathetic Catholics about “the warning signs of radicalization,” and then get them to help stop the rosary-praying terrorist by obtaining “their assistance to serve as suspicious activity tripwires.” This is nothing short of breathtaking in its resolute determination to construct a reality other than the one we happen to be living in. If there were a steady stream of terrorists routinely “radicalized” in Catholic churches and going out to bring the wrath of the Immaculate Heart of Mary upon the populace, there might be some justification for this program. As it is, it’s plain and simple harassment and scapegoating of Christians.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote to FBI top dog Christopher Wray on Monday, “Based on the limited information produced by the FBI to the Committee, we now know that the FBI relied on at least one undercover agent to produce its analysis, and that the FBI proposed that its agents engage in outreach to Catholic parishes to develop sources among the clergy and church leadership to inform on Americans practicing their faith.” He added, quite rightly, that “this information is outrageous and only reinforces the Committee’s need for all FBI material responsive to our request,” referring to material that the Committee had requested earlier but not received (and why not?).

Jordan added that what he had already received from the feds was bad enough: “The documents produced to date show how the FBI sought to enlist Catholic houses of worship as potential sources to monitor and report on their parishioners.” He felt it necessary to remind Wray, who likely thinks that Christians go to church on Sunday in order to plot hate crimes and figure out new ways to oppress brown people, of some basic truths: “Americans attend church to worship and congregate for their spiritual and personal betterment. They must be free to exercise their fundamental First Amendment rights without worrying that the FBI may have planted so-called ‘tripwire’ sources or other informants in their houses of worship.”

First Amendment rights? Come on, man! This is the Biden regime we’re talking about, the alleged administration that tried to institute a Disinformation Governance Board within the Department of Homeland Security and colluded with Twitter and the other social media giants to deplatform and silence dissidents. Does anyone really think they’re going to respect the freedom of religion?

Robert Spencer

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 26 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest books are The Critical Qur’an and The Sumter Gambit. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

Reader Interactions

By Patricia McCarthy

The President pretends to be Catholic but clearly does not live by Catholic tenets.  He supports abortion up until the moment of birth.  This past week, he sent a cease-and-desist letter to the priests who have been ministering to Catholic patients at Walter Reed Hospital.  He intends to contract outside persons to provide Catholic ministry.  While VP, he supported the persecution of the Little Sisters of the Poor for refusing to provide abortion services to their employees. In short, he is about as Catholic and Christian as Nancy Pelosi, another faux Catholic, a classic elitist who has nothing but contempt for actual Catholics, actual Christians.  

There are years of evidence, including from Biden’s own daughter’s diary, that Biden is a pedophile or at least has pedophilic tendencies.  He cannot keep his hands off young female children; he fondles and sniffs them.  Tara Reade’s account of his molestation of her years ago is credible.  The man is pond scum. 

Whenever he speaks of his deceased son Beau, who died of a brain tumor, he blames his death on the burn pits of Iraq where Beau served 2008 - 2009.  That could be true.  The military had long used burn pits to dispose of all manner of waste, much of it obviously toxic.  How does one explain, then, his total and complete lack of interest in the train derailment that subjected the citizens of East Palestine, Ohio, to the consequences of a de facto burn pit?  He did not visit. He barely mentioned it.  He did not send the hapless Buttigieg or his EPA head, Michael Regan, until shamed into it. Neither of them acquitted themselves well.  Both of them made it clear they did not want to be there, nor did they have any sympathy for the victims who are very likely to suffer for decades as Beau Biden did.  

Biden’s open border is a human catastrophe of horrific proportions.  The day he was inaugurated, he opened our southern border to all comers, encouraging migrants from all over the world to sacrifice everything to make their way to the US.  Thousands of them die on the journey.  The women and children are raped and trafficked.  

Meanwhile, the cartels have become richer than Bill Gates.  The cartels control both sides of the border with Biden’s acquiescence.  Thousands of migrants are being bussed or flown into cities throughout America every day.  It's a massive operation to alter the demographics of the US.  It’s part of the globalist plan.  

The sadly mentally incapacitated Biden is a tool of the worst people on the planet: the Communist Party of China and the Machiavellian scoundrels of the WEF.  He has led us into WWIII; it has begun, which must be clear to every American paying attention.  Biden’s weakness has reverberated throughout the world.  His thwarting of our energy independence, his absurd implementation of all the covid restrictions that submarined the US economy and his vaccine mandates that have killed thousands will be his legacy. 

This President’s obsession with LGBT issues, especially the transgenderism of children, proves his evil intent beyond all other issues. Neither he nor Kamala Harris could be bothered to visit or even speak to the grief of the families of the victims of the Nashville murder of six people, three of them children.  Instead, they used the tragic event to boost support for transgendered persons, all of whom suffer from mental illness in one form or another.  Numerous school shootings have been committed by trans kids who suffer from gender dysphoria and almost always on drugs, legal and/or illegal.  Both Harris and the White House spoke of their pride and support of the “trans community” and the “Tennessee Three,” who mounted a nearly violent insurrection in their State House to ignominiously screech for gun control, as if taking guns away from good people would prevent such mass attacks.  They nearly always occur in gun-free zones.  These idiotic activists know this and do not care.  They seem to be determined that only criminals have guns, as they most assuredly will if in a gun-free zone.

Joe Biden has been corrupt for all his years in Congress.  What is so maddening is that everyone in Congress, in the DC world of politics, have always known this.  They’ve all known he was rather dim, a racist (Strom Thurmond was his mentor), a plagiarist, and a consummate and compulsive liar.  The list of his oft repeated, provable lies is too long to list but he was at it again while in Ireland this week; he has never “traveled 17k miles with Xi.”  Clearly he can’t help himself; he has a serious pathological problem.

Biden is a dim bulb and the people who engineered his installation as president surely knew that.  Whoever his handlers are, they committed many serious crimes, many breaches of the Constitution, to rig the election, secure in the knowledge that “they,” whoever they are, would be running the show.  They surely knew that Biden is a schlump, an empty suit, a man without a moral core; a man they could manipulate and manipulate him they certainly have.  

There is more than enough proof that Biden is indebted to China; his family has been fabulously enriched by the CCP’s purchase of his servility.  He is indebted to Ukraine as well but is repaying their generosity by using the Ukrainian people as cannon fodder in his misguided proxy war against Putin.   

Biden will go down in history as the most corrupt, the most nationally and globally disastrous and the dumbest President in American history.  If we are to prevail as a constitutional republic, the American people better wake-up and fight for everything they cherish – family, freedom and basic human and civil rights – or it will be gone in the blink of an eye.  It began with Obama and that crowd is determined to carry out their plan to transform America.  They’ve been remarkably successful to the detriment of us all. 

Caricature by Donkey Hotey CC BY 2.0 license