The Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) made the announcement on July 22 that it would distribute$ 4.3 billion in taxpayer-funded grants to various national climate projects before President Joe Biden’s departure from office in January.
The money will go to 25 projects across 30 states ( some will cross state borders ) and will target greenhouse gas emissions from” transportation, electric power, commercial and residential buildings, industry, agriculture/natural and working lands, and waste and materials management”, the EPA said in a press release. The climate pollution reduction grants system, which was established as the landmark climate law passed by the Biden administration, was funded by the 2022 erroneously titled Inflation Reduction Act.
The Biden Energy Department announced earlier this month that it would grant$ 1.7 billion to 11 businesses to support the financing of electric vehicle production.
According to company executive Michael Regan, the presidency “has made the largest weather investment in story, providing billions of dollars to state, local, and cultural governments to combat climate change with the urgency it demands,” President Biden said.  ,
Decarbonization and Its Effects
In addition to the federal funds, there are$ 30 million for actions in Wyoming to market” weather intelligent” techniques ostensibly to reduce pollution from agriculture and waste, as well as an effort to place EV chargers along a highway on the East Coast.  ,
A Southern California air management region does receive$ 500 million to support the decarbonization of the area’s transportation and freight industries, including those in Long Beach and Los Angeles.  , EPA’s grants to the location will provide money for “electric getting products, zero-emission transport vehicles and transformation of goods handling equipment to lower emissions”.
The Biden government’s strategy of putting tax money into the transition to electric vehicles is continued by the EPA’s environment offers.  , And its timing may appear to be a little off. Ford and GM are reducing the production of electric vehicles, and Ford lost over$ 100, 000 on each new electric vehicle sold. EV sales continue to eke out on trader thousands across the nation.
The electronic school buses are another option. An electronic bus company in wealthy Montgomery County, Maryland, just northwest of Washington, D.C., repeatedly missed shipping deadlines and delayed repairs to its school buses, which resulted in “millions of dollars in inefficient spending,” according to The Washington Post last week.  ,
Some of the energy cars delivered had to have their chargers changed, and some had issues with the high-voltage cable. The Montgomery County Inspector General’s report, which the Post quoted, revealed that the school district is now spending upwards of$ 14 million on diesel-powered buses as a result of its vehicle shortage.  , In other words, rather of decarbonizing its class vehicle fleet, Montgomery County is recarbonizing it.  ,
The similar “fund or sanction it and they will come” culture that underpins the pamphlets in the Inflation Reduction Act has contributed to Montgomery County’s energy class vehicle fiasco. Maryland legislators passed a law in 2022 that aims to reduce greenhouse gases, including increasing the number of electric vehicles in the condition. Additionally, some discounts are permitted, but the rules also mandates that new school buses run entirely on electric power.  , Those in charge often know best.
Maryland’s encounter with bright electrical school buses is similar to that of the enormous rotor that just contaminated Nantucket, Massachusetts, beaches with a giant wind turbine. Socially supported green technology both failed to live up to their hype in both instances. The same citizens who foot the bill for the offers Biden’s EPA is providing in order to combat climate change are sponsoring the onshore wind job in New England. And taxes were paid for the Maryland energy school cars, which were then purchased by Montgomery County residents.  ,  ,
The ruling class consistently asserts that it is in the interests of the common to defend against any “existential danger” that might serve their reasons. Their blatant stupidity is resonant with the faces of ordinary people who frequently bear the brunt of their stupidity. The billions of dollars that the EPA is disseminating wo n’t have an impact on the climate, but it will prevent the waste of even more valuable resources.
Bonner Russell Cohen, Ph. The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow ( CFACT) employs D. as its senior policy analyst.
