{"id":1780327,"date":"2022-12-19T13:01:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780327"},"modified":"2022-12-19T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:05:01","slug":"biden-admins-plan-to-phase-out-natural-gas-is-their-next-looming-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admins-plan-to-phase-out-natural-gas-is-their-next-looming-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin&#8217;s Plan to Phase Out Natural Gas Is Their Next Looming Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admins-plan-to-phase-out-natural-gas-is-their-next-looming-disaster%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780327&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/08d15410-1686-485b-b292-5815117e61bd-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Back on December 7th (Pearl Harbor Day, appropriately enough), the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/biden-harris-administration-announces-steps-electrify-and-cut-emissions-federal-buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued a declaration<\/a> via the Department of Energy ordering all new or refurbished federal buildings to eliminate the use of natural gas and become fully \u201celectrified\u201d beginning in 2025. The order didn\u2019t receive much attention in the press at the time, but this foolish plan needs to be checked at the door. This was, of course, yet another sop to the climate change fanatics, but the White House clearly wanted to bill it in a way that made the plan seem even \u201cbetter for America.\u201d The order declared that electrifying federal buildings in this fashion would save the taxpayers eight million dollars annually \u201cin upfront equipment costs.\u201d But <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-says-its-natural-gas-phaseout-will-save-taxpayers-millions-it-will-do-the-opposite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as the Free Beacon discovered<\/a> when delving into the numbers, this plan will actually do the opposite, driving up costs to the taxpayers significantly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Biden administration is casting its plan to phase out the use of natural gas in federal buildings in favor of clean energy as a \u201ccost-effective\u201d move that will save taxpayers millions each year.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s baloney, according to a\u00a0<i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i>\u00a0review of federal data, which indicates that a Biden administration\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/biden-harris-administration-announces-steps-electrify-and-cut-emissions-federal-buildings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>\u00a0touting the plan\u2019s frugality excludes the administration\u2019s own findings on the increased cost of green energy sources as compared with natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>In that statement, President Joe Biden\u2019s Energy Department says the proposed natural gas phaseout \u201cwould save taxpayers $8 million annually in upfront equipment costs,\u201d a figure that stems from the department\u2019s Dec. 6\u00a0<a id=\"reader.external-link.num-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-12\/doe-clean-energy-snopr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estimate<\/a>\u00a0of the plan\u2019s budgetary impact. That estimate, however, also acknowledges that so-called clean electricity is roughly four-and-a-half times more expensive than natural gas, leading to \u201cincreases in energy costs across the board\u201d that outweigh the savings on equipment expected under the plan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So how exactly would this work? The DOE announcement doesn\u2019t provide much of anything in the way of details. It consists almost entirely of generalized statements and grandiose language about carbon footprints and \u201cclean energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, they will be ripping all of the gas heating systems and gas water heaters out of the federal buildings and replacing them with electric heaters. There are currently more than 300,000 federal buildings in the country. That\u2019s going to cost a boatload of money, as any of you homeowners who have ever had to hire a contractor to do plumbing and electrical work already know.<\/p>\n<p>For every building that is \u201cphased out\u201d of natural gas usage, there will be a new drain placed on the grid to supply the electricity to run the new heaters. And this is all going to be happening at a time when we\u2019re already struggling to keep the energy grid up and running with enough juice to meet our current needs. Where will all of that electricity come from? Currently, wind power <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/tools\/faqs\/faq.php?id=427&#038;t=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provides<\/a> less than 10% of the electricity we use, and solar accounts for less than 3%.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to that, fossil fuels still supply 61 percent of our energy, with natural gas accounting for almost 40% of the total. If you want electricity to heat all 300,000 of those buildings you\u2019re going to be burning a lot more natural gas. The only difference is, you\u2019ll be burning it <em>somewhere else<\/em>, specifically at your local power generation station. And all of this assumes that we can bring our natural gas production levels back up to pre-Biden rates.<\/p>\n<p>The DOE announcement proclaims that these measures are a demonstration of how \u201cthe Biden-Harris Administration is leading by example.\u201d That much certainly seems to be true. But it\u2019s an example of bad policies combined with poor math skills, so it\u2019s probably not an \u201cexample\u201d we should be following.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on December 7th (Pearl Harbor Day, appropriately enough), the Biden administration issued a declaration via the Department of Energy ordering all new or refurbished federal buildings to eliminate the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1780330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[7522,3620,5458,4164,7536,10292,7063,10330,4025,3819],"class_list":["post-1780327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-admins","tag-biden","tag-bongino","tag-disaster","tag-gas","tag-looming","tag-natural","tag-phase","tag-plan","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}