Much of the earth is made up of Carbon. It is a basic element in in mankind’s very way of life. Carbon compounds are found the bodies of all living things, in all plant life, in the fuel that heats our homes, drives our cars, powers our industries, is in the foods and medicines we consume, and the materials we use every day.  Carbon is indispensable to life on our planet. Why then is Carbon so hated by the elites in favor of their Green New Deal? It is because fuels produce Carbon dioxide when burned. The more we burn, the higher the content in the atmosphere and the more heat it absorbs from the sun’s rays.

We are told that we must reduce the fuel we burn, and a major focus of the elites has been on converting gasoline powered cars and trucks to electrical power. Where will all the electricity come from? Transportation Secretary Buttigieg said recently that the Federal Government has appropriated $5 Billion for Charging Stations to provide all the needed electricity for America’s fleet of cars and trucks. A look at the numbers quickly demonstrates that Secretary Buttigieg’s $5 billion is a very small drop in the bucket.

At last (2020) count, there were 276 million cars and 161 million trucks in the United States. There were 2.3 million electric cars. The Electrical Utility system, currently about 1,100 million kilowatts, can easily accommodate the current number, but surely not several hundred times that many.  That will require a major expansion of America’s entire electrical system. But to make matters worse, if we are to eliminate major sources of CO2 pollution, we must phase out all the coal fired power plants – about 20%, and natural gas fired – about 40%, of the current ones in existence. The power plants that remain (Nuclear and Hydroelectric) are aging but still operational. How shall we provide the nation’s power needs? Solar is limited by space requirements and sunshine hours. Wind power is also limited. Conventional nuclear plants are very expensive (over ten times that of Natural Gas plants), and advanced Nuclear is decades away from prime time. Let’s not forget that carbonaceous fuels are used for innumerable sources of residential, commercial and industrial heating and the great multitude of chemicals and materials we use every day.

For their own reasons, the major polluters of the world – China, Russia and India have not agreed follow America’s lead on this. Since it is a global issue, the implementation of America’s Green New Deal might be expected to reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere only a minuscule amount. But the costs are astronomical and generations away from practicality. Thus we must conclude that the unaffordable Green New Deal and its War on Carbon, as presented, is an enormous slice of Pie in the Sky. If we wish to make progress on Climate Change, let’s continue to work on improving the efficiency of our existing systems as we have been doing, and abandon the fool hearty Green New Deal.

Maury Fey