Biden’s Offshore Leasing Moratorium Will Increase GHG Emissions

Says the carbon emitter in chief

If you have a flag, fly it upside down, because the world is standing on its head and the USA is now unequivocally a banana republic.

Hopefully, President Trump will run for Congress in 2022! If he pushes for MAGA congresscritters he might just win enough to become Majority Leader and impeach Beijing Zhou Xiden, to be followed by the same for the Trojan Harris! That would make HIM president again for two years with another four year term to follow!
Think of the damage that could be repaired with six more years! Think how many libtard heads would explode just talking about it! If we actually required voter ID and paper ballots the DemoKKKrats might be out of power for decades! We might even get a proper nuclear industry going and become a major energy exporter again!

IMHO, the long game Biden-Harris are playing is to deliberately drive up the price of all forms of energy to levels which become the new normal here in the US. Higher energy prices will in turn support higher energy taxes for the government and also higher profits for private sector energy corporations. The basic means of achieving this goal is to eliminate price competition from the energy marketplace.

Biden-Harris will do this first by reducing the supply of all legacy fossil fuel and nuclear energy resources; and then by adding a host of new environmental, safety, and health regulations which hamper development of new energy resources inside our US borders. The consumer price of all forms energy will rise to levels which will comfortably support a non-competitive energy marketplace system where the federal and state governments, and the private sector energy producers, all take a greater share of the price at final delivery.

The Biden-Harris transformed energy marketplace will deliver higher tax revenues for governments and higher unit profits for energy producers on reduced levels of energy production. America’s energy independence will be consciously sacrificed in pursuit of this goal. Russia, Iran, Venezuela, oil-producing Middle East nations, and China will be the direct beneficiaries of the Biden-Harris energy agenda. 

How far can Biden-Harris go in eliminating price competition from the energy marketplace? 

Most of you have already seen my straw horse demonstration plan for how this might be done. Every action listed under the following five-point GHG reduction program — the Supply Side Carbon Emission Control Plan (SSCECP) — has a past historical precedent in the application of environmental regulations and in national security law.

The SSCECP imposes an artificial shortage of fossil fuels on the American economy while greatly increasing the price of carbon energy for all energy consumers. In the space of a decade, the SSCECP transforms America from an energy rich nation into an energy poor nation relative to the energy cornucopia we enjoy today. This is a feature of the plan, not a bug.

The plan described above is completely legal and constitutional. Under current law, the SSCECP can be implemented unilaterally by the Executive Branch using its existing environmental protection and national security authorities. Not another word of new legislation is needed from Congress either to enable the plan legally or to fund its operation.

The SSCECP has two major legal elements for which there exist two strong precedents for believing it would survive any lawsuits brought against it.

In the world of environmental law and regulation, because the EPA’s Section 202 Endangerment Finding withstood a powerful legal challenge in 2009, CO2 can be regulated as a ‘pollutant.’ The SSCECP pushes the Clean Air Act to the edge of its legal authority, but not beyond. As long as the EPA regulatory side of the plan treats all sources of carbon emissions more or less equally, all legal challenges based on environmental law will fail.

In the world of national security law and its associated past precedents, primarily from America’s experience in World War II, the SSCECP suspends our anti-trust laws and regulations as these would apply to price competition among all energy corporations and among all forms of energy production and consumption.

As said earlier, the ultimate objective of the SSCECP is to eliminate price competition in the energy marketplace. It guarantees a healthy profit for all private corporations who choose to participate — higher profits on less volume of energy production.

As the SSCECP is formulated, no private corporation in its right mind would ever choose not to become a participant. Even the oil and gas corporations will join in, assuming their CEO’s recognize the benefits to themselves and to their shareholders for becoming the government’s paid agents in raising the price of all forms of energy.

The straw horse plan also includes a powerful incentive for the state governments to become the primary agents of enforcement for the EPA’s carbon regulation framework. The SSCECP imposes a system of carbon pollution fines which is the functional equivalent of a legislated tax on carbon. State revenues could expand dramatically, not just in the fossil energy producing states, but in the fossil energy consuming states as well.  

Summarizing my comment, the legal foundation has already been laid for Biden-Harris to take direct control of America’s energy marketplace, but without having to nationalize the private sector energy corporations. Gaining their full cooperation is much easier done simply by rewarding those corporations with higher profits on less volume of energy production.

Is the Supply Side Carbon Emission Control Plan (SSCECP) diabolical in its concept and operation? Absolutely. For a progressive agenda policy wonk, the plan is a dream come true.

Is a plan like the SSCECP unthinkable here in the year 2021?

Not at all. If what we have seen happening in the first weeks of the Biden-Harris administration is any indication, we should be surprised if we don’t see a plan something like the SSCECP being pushed hard within the next several months.

Just for starters, people need to stop pretending that Joe Biden is doing any of this. He’s not. I doubt that he has had any hand in the 50+ executive orders he’s signed. The US has just done the unimaginable … elected a president who was unfit for office on day one. I doubt that even Harris has any idea what’s in all those orders. The “guy behind the curtain” is running the most powerful entity on the planet.