WH: Gas Prices 'Prove' Gov't Should Spend More on Green Energy
If you have been wondering why President Joe Biden is working so diligently to close the pipelines and jack up the gas prices, now you know! On Friday, the White House announced that the rising gas prices just "prove" that the government needs to spend more money on "green energy."
Of course, the government wants to take more of our money to spend on useless things. What else is new?
“The rise in gas prices over the long term makes an even stronger case for doubling down our investment and our focus on clean energy options,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
Breitbart reports:
She blamed market fluctuations driven by OPEC for rising gas prices and repeated that the Biden administration would continue monitoring any cases of possible price gouging by energy companies.
When asked if the current prices were acceptable, Psaki replied, “We certainly don’t think that.”
Psaki did not have any response to questions about whether the Biden administration would act immediately to alleviate high gas prices.
Some of the proposals for the administration include banning exports of fossil fuels, easing bio-fuel blending requirements, or releasing fuel from the strategic oil reserves, some of them even endorsed by Senate Democrats.
Psaki did not respond to any of the proposals, but said that the White House was “monitoring” the situation but had no specific actions to preview.
What a crapshow.
https://dailypatriotreport.com/wh-gas-prices-prove-govt-should-spend-more-on-green-energy/
******************************************Paris culture guru flees 'violent and dirty' city
Under its "Green" mayor
One of France's leading culture experts is quitting Paris to live in the countryside, because the capital has become a 'rubbish bin' under its controversial socialist mayor.
Stéphane Bern, 58, who was hired by Emmanuel Macron as a cultural adviser, said the city has now become a hotbed of violence and ugliness following a series of unpopular reforms by Anne Hidalgo.
The left-wing mayor has overseen a series of sweeping reforms to make the city 'greener' including concrete cycle lanes, plans to turn the Champs-Elysées into a garden, and the removal of traditional 19th century benches because they are 'sexist', all while failing to clean up the streets.
Hidalgo, who is running for president next year, has also attracted ire for pushing through plans for a controversial new £600million glass skyscraper likened to a 'giant piece of brie' that critics say will ruin the Paris skyline.
Bern, a journalist and TV presenter, has now vowed to move from his flat in Pigalle, a Paris neighbourhood known for its nightlife and home to the Moulin Rouge, to Perche in northern France.
Bern said: 'Where has the City of Lights gone?'
'I still marvel at the beauty but I deplore that it is letting itself go to a certain extent, and even growing uglier in general.
'Paris has become a rubbish bin where people throw anything away, anywhere and any old how.'
Bern will be moving to a disused military school that he purchased in 2013 when he vacates the capital.
His comments have renewed debate about the state of Paris as critics say the City of Love has started to lose its lustre.
Hidalgo has pushed for many pro-cycling measures including controversial new lanes last year which are separated from the roads by giant concrete blocks, which have been branded an eyesore.
She also introduced large plastic flower pots across the city in a bid to allow locals to tend the flowerbeds, but many have been left unkempt and overgrown.
The mayor is currently facing a backlash over the proposed Triangle Tour glass skyscraper which is set to be built this year.
Plans for the tower, unfavourably compared to The Shard, were first approved more than a decade ago but legal wrangling from activists, environmentalists and architects has pushed back construction.
The 42-storey building is designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and will include office spaces and a four-star hotel.
Art historian Didier Rykner blasted the project as a 'big piece of brie in the sky that can be seen from everywhere' while French news outlet Télérama said the building is an 'outdated, ecologically absurd project being built out of place'.
A court overturned previous rulings this month to grant planning permission but opponents are still hoping for a last ditched attempt to derail it.
Philippe Goujon, the conservative mayor of the 15th arrondissement where the building will be located, will formally ask for it to be postponed at a city council meeting this week.
Prosecutors are also investigating alleged 'favouritism' by Hidalgo's office towards Viparis, the company that manages the construction site.
She and other backers say the tower will generate more than 5,000 jobs and be a major asset for Paris.
But others say the city already has 1.5million square metres of empty office space and its irregular shape would make it vastly less energy efficient.
Separately, one of Hidalgo's most unpopular moves was the removal of Paris's traditional wooden and wrought-iron benches which had been designed by Gabriel Davioud in the late 19th century.
Hidalgo and feminists say they are mainly used by men and women are scared to use them out of fear of being harassed.She replaced them with deconstructed benches, which resemble long tables and slabs of concrete, to encourage women to sit together, but Bern blasted them as 'frightful'.
He said he was horrified by the 'dirtiness, the holes in the road, the permanent building sites, the noise and especially the violence' in the capital.
He added: 'You should hear how people talk to each other. Traffic is an incredible source of tension. Cars against pedestrians, scooters against bicycles, scooters against cars... this war of wheels is intolerable.'
Bern previously worked under Macron and remains close to the President, having been tasked with preserving French heritage in the culture ministry.
He has been influential with setting up a heritage lottery similar to the one in Britain and he previously presented a number of acclaimed documentaries about French royalty.
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Al Gore Pushes Mass Surveillance as Key to Fighting Climate Change
Over the course of the last several decades, there have been numerous suggestions regarding how we can best tackle the idea of “climate change”, a theory previously known as “global warming”.
Much of the hullabaloo came as a direct result of former Vice President Al Gore and his film An Inconvenient Truth. This was the watershed moment for the climate change movement, and the former veep has continued to push the issue with ever-more desperate dialogue.
This week was no exception.
In the interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Gore declared that technology created by the so called Climate TRACE coalition will monitor greenhouse gas emissions and root out the culprits.
“We get data consistently from 300 existing satellites, more than 11,000 ground-based, air-based, sea-based sensors, multiple internet data streams and using artificial intelligence,” Gore explained, adding
“All that information is combined, visible light, infrared, all of the other information that is brought in, and we can now accurately determine where the greenhouse gas emissions are coming from.”
Of course, there is something to be said for Al Gore and his fellow wealthmongers’ impact on the global climate.
New research by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) has found that by 2030, the carbon footprints of the wealthiest 1% of humanity are on track to be 30 times larger than the size compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5°C by the end of the century, the Paris Agreement’s more ambitious temperature target.
The report notes that should current trends continue, the richest 1% will account for 16% of global CO2 emissions in 2030.
The paper notes that “They increasingly drive the extent of global inequality, and likely have a greater impact on the political and social acceptability of national emissions reduction efforts,” adding “It is therefore notable that in all of the major emitting countries, the richest 10% and 1% nationally are set to have per capita consumption footprints substantially above the 1.5⁰C global per capita level.”
And let’s not forget about the energy cost of all of this surveillance either, with a great deal of American electricity still being generated by not-so-green means.
https://steadfastdaily.com/al-gore-pushes-mass-surveillance-as-key-to-fighting-climate-change/
*****************************************Glasgow summit is 'green light' for more coal mines, Australian Senator says
The Glasgow COP26 climate summit was a "great result" for the Australian coal industry, Senator Matt Canavan has said.
His declaration came us UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UN get-together had sounded the "death knell" for coal power.
Appearing on Today with a screen behind him displaying the slogan "Glasgow: A huge win for coal", Senator Canavan said there had "never been stronger demand" for the industry.
"Given the fact that the agreement did not say that coal needs to be phased down or taken out, it is a green light for us to build more coal mines," he said.
The agreement finally reached by 197 countries yesterday did in fact include a commitment to "phase down" the use of coal, but the phrase was changed from "phase out" after an intervention by India.
Senator Canavan also speculated that numerous countries would not take the commitment seriously. "The agreements themselves have wiggle room," he said. "We always see countries not comply with the agreements."
He claimed there was "not really any country around the world" taking it seriously. "The countries in our region, like India, like China, like South-East Asia, are growing and developing their industries, and their demand for coal almost has no limit," he said.
"So, we have got the best quality coal in the world and we should be supplying that to the world, because it is good for the environment to do that, and it is, of course, very good for people's growth, development, and getting people out of poverty."
Negotiators at Glasgow said the final agreement was aimed at keeping alive the overarching goal of limiting warming to 1.5C since pre-industrial times. The world has already warmed 1.1C.
Coal is among the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the UN climate summit as a "game-changing agreement" that sounded the "death knell for coal power" - although he added that his delight at the progress on fighting climate change was "tinged with disappointment."
Mr Johnson said it was "beyond question" that the deal coming out of the Glasgow conference marks an important moment in the use of coal, because most of western Europe and North America have agreed to pull the plug on financial support for all overseas fossil fuel projects by this time next year.
Mr Johnson also said the compromise that saw the language changed to "phase down" did not make "that much of a difference."
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