Biden Admin Floats New Strategy To ‘Address the Climate Crisis’: Don’t Leave Your House

Biden’s blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization’ emphasizes’remote Work and Virtual Interactions’ Reuters

A new Biden administration plan to combat climate change claims that the COVID-19 pandemic was not all bad. “highlighted major opportunities” Reduce travel demand and reduce carbon emissions by “remote work and virtual interactions.”

The Plan—which President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency and Energy, Transportation, and Housing departments Released in January—aims to “eliminate nearly all greenhouse gas emissions” The plan aims to eliminate the transportation sector by 2050, mainly through a transition towards electric vehicles. The plan also includes a controversial call for reducing emissions. “commuting miles” Through “an increase in remote work and virtual engagements,” including in education.

“Telework and other components of a digital economy … can improve convenience by reducing travel demand, especially for work commuting,” It states that the plan is in place. “The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted major opportunities for telework, with some studies showing the possibility of 10 percent long-term reduction in annual vehicle miles traveled.” The plan continues to identify “remote access to services like health care and education” One of the “key determinants of future travel demand.”

Leading green energy groups are certain to be satisfied by the administration’s COVID inspired call to reduce travel demand. Similar rhetoric has been echoed since the beginning of the pandemic. For example, the Rocky Mountain Institute will be launching its April 2020 campaign. touted “opportunities to reduce vehicle miles traveled via telework.” The plan has already caused outrage among small-business advocates. They point to the fact the plan could be detrimental to their business. More than 100,000 small business owners The only reason that the Pandemic closed down permanently was because of decreased demand. Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network believes that this history could repeat itself if widespread telecommuting was made possible by climate change.

“Once again, the Biden administration is blindly pursuing a ‘green’ agenda despite the unintended consequences it poses to the economy and, more specifically, small businesses,” Ortiz spoke to the Washington Free Beacon. “Small businesses struggled to survive the pandemic and we don’t need to return to a similar environment in which in-person consumer demand is severely compromised.”

Even the most prominent Democrats echo Ortiz’s rhetoric. Minutes into her third term, Muriel bowser, Democrat, became Washington, D.C.’s mayor. Pressed the White House Take “decisive action” federal workers in their physical offices. Biden made a March promise that federal workers would return to their offices.