Germany, a country that rushed toward abandoning traditional energy sources, has already proven this thesis.
All the mines that exist in the world today for critical minerals like graphite, cobalt, vanadium, and nickel produce only one-third of what is required to achieve the green transition, according to the International Monetary Fund. More generally, this green fantasy would require more turbines, batteries, and panels than the world has raw materials to make. That is, it would take that factory 1,000 years to make enough batteries to power the United States for two days. Yet the world’s largest battery manufacturing facility can only produce enough storage each year to power the United States for three minutes. To replace hydrocarbons, global green energy production would need to increase by 9,000 percent.įor wind and solar to be useful when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, their power must be stored. Sources like wind and solar are inefficient, unreliable, and built with materials that aren’t abundant enough to satisfy current energy demand.Īs much attention and government funding as modern green energy receives, because of its inefficiency, it comprises just 9% of U.S. Biden recently contended: “ it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, God willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over.”īiden is finally saying out loud what many in his orbit have been whispering for some time: He wants to use high gas prices to force America to accept the left’s top priority, a transition to green energy.īut the unfortunate reality is that the green payoff they promise is just a mirage because it is impossible to power American cars, homes, and businesses using only green energy. This decision not only scores a victory for the rule of law by restoring lawmaking authority to the people’s representatives in Congress, rather than unelected Washington bureaucrats, but provides the American people desperately needed relief from one of the Biden’s administration’s costly green fantasies.įor the past year and a half, President Joe Biden has pursued a radical theology of green energy without any regard for the real consequences for American workers and families.
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency lacks the authority to force the American power industry to adopt its green-energy ideology by regulation.