All over the world, people are watching the new US president tear up climate change rules, vow to tackle the energy crisis, and bring down the price of oil and gas, and many of them are thinking that sounds like a good idea. They do not know that it IS a good idea. They have just heard a rich and powerful man say it is, watched him put someone else's money where his tiny mouth is, and are getting swept along by all the hot air.
Cue columnists, cue comments, cue people saying stuff they really know bugger all about. And I know the same as you do about it, which is not much, but having made the effort to find some things out perhaps the below may be of interest. The first thing you need to know is that there is no energy crisis, and America is already the world's biggest producer of oil and gas. Joe Biden did that, and if you're a hippy-dippy libtard who liked his green targets that'll take some getting your head around.
Here are some simple truths: the biggest contributor to climate change is burning oil and gas, the biggest users of oil and gas are cars, and therefore if you make cars less polluting you can have a dramatic effect on a nation's overall carbon footprint. Oh, and before anyone says it's all China's fault - China has already hit 50% of new vehicles being electric. In the US, it's about 10%. So, you know.
Any president who's sane at least three days a week would encourage people to buy electric, encourage manufacturers to make electric, and find greener ways to make electricity. And that's what Biden did, with a system of tax credits that meant drivers and car makers got thousands of dollars per vehicle cashback. Yet in his first week of office Trump vowed to end what he called Biden's "electric vehicle mandate", which doesn't exist but he told to voters took away their choice of what car to drive. He signed a bunch of executive orders to halt the 'Green New Deal', which also wasn't a thing but a way of thinking about a bunch laws which, as a result, are still in place. You can, for example, still get the same tax credits for buying electric.
