Ranger from the North

John Hinderaker:

It is not disputed that Harris was for years the very public illicit mistress of Willie Brown, California’s most powerful politician. Nor is it disputed that Brown greased Harris’s path as she rose in California politics, to the point where she became a U.S. senator without ever being seriously tested. This is why Harris ascended all the way to the vice presidency before it was widely noticed that she possesses no perceptible political skills.

Willie Brown, who knows his protege much better than the rest of us, publicly advised her not to accept the vice presidential nod. Given Joe Biden’s decrepitude, there is a fair chance that Kamala Harris will be President of the United States. Our country, and frankly the Democratic Party, would be better off if her qualifications had been more openly debated. But that is the sort of conversation that the Biden administration and its press and social media allies want to foreclose.

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Jazz Shaw:

Then there’s the second part of Kerry’s threat to consider. If the industry doesn’t fully deploy the not yet existent technology, he will have to “deploy alternative sources of energy.” Oh, really? And what are these sources of energy that could make up for the source that heats nearly half of the buildings in the country and accounts for almost 40% of the electricity we currently generate? And if you really do have those alternate sources hidden in your back pocket… for God’s sake, man, why haven’t you rolled them out already? Oh, that’s right. I forgot. We’re already producing wind and solar farms as fast as can physically be managed using generous taxpayer-funded subsidies to do so, and it still only accounts for 11% of the electricity we use.

Then there’s the reality of how such a policy would impact the existing energy infrastructure. If the government declares a ten-year death penalty for natural gas, who in the world is going to invest in building any additional pipelines or the other structural requirements to continue producing and delivering it? The answer is that nobody will because they would never earn their money back on those investments. And none of this even begins to address a challenge that we’ve discussed here before. With no natural gas available by 2032, how do you plan to convert half of the buildings in the country over to electric heating in ten years and who will pay for those conversions? And where will you generate all of the electricity to heat those buildings if you’ve knocked 40% of the current juice off of our grid?

This is a clueless plan designed to elicit cheers from the far left and attempt to lift their sagging spirits in a midterm year that’s shaping up to be a disaster for Kerry’s party. John Kerry is talking about rainbows and unicorns rather than addressing the real energy needs of the country both today and in the future. He is not to be taken seriously on this subject and Biden should find a new line of work for him where he might not embarrass the administration as much.

The energy infrastructure these morons envision would kill millions.

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