The American people have made it abundantly clear that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist Green New Deal is a losing issue for Democrats.
It failed in the House of Representatives and in the Senate so badly that now even AOC herself seems to have abandoned the bill.
But unfortunately for us, Joe Biden and his bureaucrat buddies didn’t get that message and they are now quietly imposing the Green New Deal on America.
Make no mistake about it, Americans are suffering in Joe Biden’s America.
Gas prices keep going up and up.
The economy appears to be falling into another recession.
And working class families are struggling to keep the lights on and put food on their tables.
But the tree-hugging hippies in the Biden administration don’t seem to care.
Instead of reducing the regulatory burden on American business and thus cutting costs for American consumers, Biden’s bureaucratic buddies recently announced a new series of regulations in the hopes of bypassing Congress and implementing the worst parts of the Green New Deal through the Executive Branch.
One such area the Biden administration is over-regulating is household appliances like air conditioners, ceiling fans, refrigerators, and dishwashers.
Top White House climate adviser and former head of Obama’s EPA recently remarked, “We’re actually going to do 100 rules this year alone on appliances.”
The White House claims that while increasing appliances’ energy efficiency standards will cause the prices of these appliances to increase, Americans will end up saving money in the long run.
However, critics like Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow Ben Lieberman aren’t convinced.
Lieberman argues, “it takes a cost to make these efficient products . . . but it raises the upfront cost enough that it’s not even clear that consumers will come out ahead.”
Another target of these Deep State Democrats are car manufacturers’ fuel economy standards, which will make new cars more than one thousand dollars more expensive than their current market values.
What’s especially insidious about increasing fuel economy standards is that it forces auto-manufacturers to give money to some of the Democrats’ biggest supporters i.e. electric vehicle manufacturers.
Texas Public Policy Foundation’s energy expert Brent Bennett slammed this policy saying, “Fuel economy regulations are a backdoor subsidy for electric vehicles because the auto manufacturers that don’t meet the requirements have to pay regulatory credits to Tesla and other electric vehicle manufacturers that have credits to sell . . . The law was never built to be used in that way. But it’s being used to block development and to create political favoritism.”
In addition to this regulatory onslaught that’s poised to hit American businesses and consumers, the Biden administration also announced that they’re also proposing a new series of regulations under the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act, which would require federal agencies to consider the “direct,” “indirect,” and “cumulative” impact any type of infrastructure project would have on the climate.
Representative Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) blasted the announcement of these newly proposed regulations saying, “I don’t care if you’re building a new school, I don’t care if you’re building a high-rise building or trying to put in affordable housing, much less a pipeline or a road or replace bridges . . . You have to go through the NEPA process and, under this new rule, it will take that project years – if it’ll ever even be permitted and most of the time it won’t.”
While Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and the other climate change cultists in the Biden administration are celebrating these ridiculous regulations, the American people are suffering because of them.
These regulations will only cause prices to increase at a time when Americans are already financially struggling to make ends meet and have little to no impact on the climate whatsoever.
Which begs the question, are they doing this to help Americans or is it to appease leftist donors ahead of the 2022 Midterm elections?
Patriot Political will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
