Stephen Moore asks: Who turned off the lights? Joe Biden.

Is the Radical Climate Change Agenda Never-Ending?

First, it was gas stoves, then lightbulbs, and now President Joe Biden’s administration has announced a plan to shut down as many as half of our electric power plants across the country. These power plants charge our Tesla batteries and cellphones, keep the lights on in our factories, schools, hospitals, stores, and homes, power the internet, cook our food, and keep us warm at night. But where will we get the electric power to charge 150 million EVs every night? From windmills?

The Sinister Plan to Wrench Fossil Fuels from Our Energy Supply

Most of the electric power supply in America and around the world comes from fossil fuels. Coal, gas, and oil power plants account for more than 60% of the electric power we use in the United States today. Only about 20% comes from wind and solar power. However, the Biden administration has announced a plan to “drastically reduce (power plant) greenhouse gas emissions.” These cuts are so stringent that most of our gas- and coal-fired plants would be technologically incapable of complying. But here’s what’s sinister: That’s the point of these rules — to wrench fossil fuels from our energy supply altogether.

Our electric grid system is already stressed to the limits. States that have tried to switch to green energy — California comes to mind — are having to undergo dangerous blackouts and brownouts. This is what happens in Third World countries. It isn’t supposed to happen here.

The Dangerous Assault on the American Free Enterprise System and U.S. Global Leadership

The Biden administration says that coal and gas plants will have to pay for carbon offsets to make up for their carbon emissions. Who’s going to pay for that? We all will with much higher utility bills. If you want to cripple an industrial economy like that of the U.S., a good way to do so is to dismantle its energy supply. These new EPA regulations aren’t about breathing cleaner air or changing the temperature of the planet. They are a dangerous assault on the American free enterprise system and U.S. global leadership.

No country has cleaned its air more than the U.S. has over the last many decades. Our air pollution emissions — including lead, sulfur, carbon monoxide, and particulates — have fallen by a combined 74% over the past 50 years. We have the cleanest air in any of our lifetimes. Even our carbon dioxide emissions have fallen in recent years more than any other country, thanks to natural gas production. We aren’t the problem. China is, and you can be sure they’re not doing anything to slow their economy.

Biden thinks his legacy will be as the president who fought global warming. Wrong. He will go down in history as the president who turned the lights out on the U.S. economy.