Here in Missouri (KC area) gas prices have doubled since Biden’s inflationary gas hikes have taken their toll on the working poor and middle class. Winter is coming and with the anticipated high demand for natural gas to heat homes and business natural gas prices will increase due to Biden’s idiotic closure of the Keystone XL and ANWR pipelines. Natural gas is the most efficient and least costly fuel we have in abundance. What the Democrats are proposing is the electrification of the US power grid solely using Wind and Solar power. This idea is technically not possible and fusion power won’t be available for another 100 years (if at all).
The transition from carbon based fuels to renewable supplies simply cannot happen as quickly nor as economically as the Progressives will tell you. And although the current Green New Deal might be the first step in cutting the carbon umbilical, in reality it will destroy the American economy and leave millions of Americans returning to alternative sources of carbon based fuel to heat homes and businesses. This will in turn create the impetus for more authoritarian federal control over what the average American can do during the long winter months that approach. Attempting to heat homes and spaces using fire wood will be illegal in many states. The EPA will be weaponized to arrest and convict families, individuals and businesses that utilize wood products for heating. They will be considered domestic environmental terrorists’ and Uncle Joe (ala Stalin) will make sure that his administration carries out these public tribunals through Merrick Garlands DOJ.
If you really want to know what the Green New Deal is about go to the source.
https://berniesanders.com/issues/green-new-deal/
Now I admit that Bernie’s Website is outdated but I assure you his ideas are not. The same ideas are currently embedded in the bill that Mitch McConnell agreed to extend so that his friends on the Left side of this imbalanced equation might get it to Mr. Magoo for signature (that’s with an X) by December of 2021 . For what its worth should McConnell attempt another concession like he did last week, he might as well make the announcement that he has become a Progressive Democrat (with the innate ability to leg hump and bed wet upon command).