OPINION/EDITORIAL_ Joe Biden bends the knee to AOC on climate

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

Joe Biden bends the knee to AOC on climate

by Washington Examiner, | | July 16, 2020 12:00 AM


We have observed before the oddity that after having won the Democratic presidential nomination by promising to govern as a centrist, Joe Biden caved to the demands of the radical Left that he had just vanquished in the primary. We noted with interest when Biden decided to appoint Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a radical if ever there was one, to co-chair his climate panel. Now, Biden is out with a revised climate plan that is far to the left of what he had proposed during the primary and much closer to the vision of Ocasio-Cortez’s extreme Green New Deal.

In the primaries, Biden ran on a climate plan that would have spent $1.7 trillion over a decade. His new plan would spend $2 trillion in the first four years. This is proposed at a time when the United States faces an unprecedented debt that the Congressional Budget Office says is already on track to exceed the World War II record next year.

Previously, Biden vowed for the power sector to be free of carbon emissions by 2050. Now, he has moved the date up to 2035 (much closer to Ocasio-Cortez’s target of 2030). Such an unrealistic goal would mean eliminating carbon-based forms of power, which currently generate 62% of all energy in America. The fracking boom has been a major boost to the economy and has done more than anything else recently to reduce carbon emissions, yet Biden plans to eliminate it rapidly.

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