Biden signed a presidential executive order the same week he took office to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline project and to announce that the U.S. had rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement. It is expected that the next step of the Biden Administration will certainly increase its efforts to promote green energy plans. Previously, Biden said during the campaign that he planned to invest $2 trillion to ensure that the U.S. achieves a 100% clean energy economy and “net zero emissions” by 2050.
Scrapping traditional energy sources hurts long-term interests
As we all know, traditional energy fossil fuels (such as methane, etc.) and other technologies are more mature, whether from the power generation, transmission, all the way to the end-user experience, its economy and stability are better than the current application of solar energy, wind power and other green energy projects.
Although the issue of CO2 emissions reduction from “climate change” is still highly controversial in the scientific community, fossil fuels, which are traditional energy sources that could be controlled by advanced processes to reduce emissions, are portrayed in the media as a highly polluting, high-emission source, while solar and wind energy products, such as manufacturing and The issue of pollution from the manufacture and operation of energy products such as solar and wind power is not addressed.
The current issue of “climate change” has transcended the realm of science and has become an ideological issue. Of course, this is not a denial of environmental efforts, but rather a statement that the current overreaching environmentalism has gone beyond environmental protection.
The reality is that today’s green energy technologies cannot fully support today’s standard of living, despite the high level of subsidies that are currently being implemented in countries with green energy programs to address “climate change. In the long run, subsidizing green energy projects such as solar and wind power will not help reduce long-term carbon emissions, such as subsidized electric vehicles, which are increasing carbon emissions because most electric vehicles are powered by fossil fuels from traditional energy plants, whether in the factory manufacturing process or in the user segment; and solar and wind energy facilities for green energy generation are subject to regional, seasonal, and diurnal conditions. For example, solar power can only be generated during the day, while wind power reaches its peak at night. Moreover, in order to store solar and wind power, carbon emissions have to be increased, because the electricity for manufacturing electrical energy storage equipment also has to come from fossil fuels in traditional energy plants.
California, for example, has built the largest installed base of renewable green energy in the country and has set a number of aggressive targets, with a goal of generating at least 33% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, 60% by 2030, and eventually 100% by 2045, on top of the four natural gas-fired plants already shut down.
However, the reality is that in August 2020, as California experienced record high temperatures for several days in a row, leading to a surge in electricity consumption by the population and a shortage of electricity in California due to the closure of conventional energy natural gas-fired power plants in the early days, leaving a severe shortage of electricity supply. In response, CAISO, California’s power dispatch center, had to announce a rotating blackout.
The most ludicrous thing is that California has spent billions of dollars on new renewable green energy plants and solar and wind power green energy projects to replace traditional energy generation, but Californians are experiencing blackouts in the summer heat, and Californians have to pay for the highest unit cost of electricity in the country.
Against this backdrop, a push for green energy programs will not only fail to achieve the goal of replacing traditional energy sources, but will inevitably result in massive job losses, cause economic decline, and cause far-reaching long-term damage to the national interest.
The green energy issue shows the Chinese Communist Party‘s ambition to dominate
In response to the Biden administration’s green energy plan, which could lead to massive job losses in traditional energy sources, Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, said on Jan. 27 that people currently working in the traditional fossil fuel industry could also work in the solar industry.
The reality is that in the past decade, mainland China has built the world’s largest solar industry supply chain. The Chinese Communist Party has been subject to anti-dumping investigations in Europe and the United States in order to vigorously promote green energy projects and encourage the implementation of subsidies for exports. Since 2007, mainland China has held the position of the world’s top solar energy producer. In the 2019 world ranking of solar manufacturers, seven of the top 10 manufacturers are from China.
When looking at the details of these Chinese companies, it becomes clear that most of these solar manufacturers are superficially composed of private companies, but in fact most have a Communist Party background. Take for example, GCL-Poly, the top-ranked Chinese company in 2019, which is a Hong Kong-listed company but has deep ties to the Poly Group, a Communist Party military-industrial background. Moreover, its major shareholder is the company’s founder Zhu Gongshan, while its second largest shareholder is China Investment Corporation, a direct subsidiary of the Communist Party’s State Council, whose shareholding is as high as nearly 20 percent. Regardless of the company’s name to this particular shareholding structure, GCL-Poly is full of Chinese Communist Party political overtones.
Under such circumstances, how can a U.S. solar company compete with a company with a CCP government background?
So one wonders if the CCP is making an effort to promote green energy? Take the “2020 China Energy Big Data Report” published by the Communist Party’s National Bureau of Statistics, for example, from 2010 to 2019, the proportion of thermal power generation in the composition of China’s total power generation gradually decreased by 2 percentage points per year, from 79.2% in 2010 to 69.6% in 2019. However, according to the mainland media in August 2020, the CCP has approved more than 50 large-scale thermal power projects, which means that reducing carbon emissions is just a political lie of the CCP.
In essence, the Chinese Communist Party is promoting green energy in the name of promoting green energy as the “world factory” to achieve its ambition to seize world hegemony. In other words, it will continue to control energy products through dumping, causing the global industrial chain to be overly dependent on the CCP, taking full control of the global economic lifeline, changing the existing international order, practicing “united war” against all countries in the world, and following the rules of the “community of human Destiny” set by the CCP.
In order to curb the hegemonic ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party, Trump has adopted a series of trade tactics to break several layouts set by the Chinese Communist Party during his four-year term. Firstly, he sanctioned huawei and other Chinese technology companies to break the Chinese Communist Party’s ambition to control global high technology, led by Huawei’s 5G; secondly, he withdrew from the Paris climate agreement to break the Chinese Communist Party’s control of the global industry chain of green energy; thirdly, through the U.S.-China trade war, he broke the Chinese Communist Party’s implementation of subsidies and dumping methods to dominate the international market; fourthly, he launched a judicial investigation to break the Chinese Communist Party’s implementation of the “Made in China” and “Thousand-Year Plan”. Fourth, to launch a judicial investigation to break the CCP’s ambition to fully penetrate and subvert the U.S. through illegal means such as “Made in China 2025” and the “Thousand Talents Program”. Through these efforts, the true face of the Chinese Communist Party and its ambition for world hegemony will be exposed to the world.
What will the Biden administration do next? Will it abandon the previous administration’s efforts and allow the CCP to take a break and once again recklessly infiltrate and steal from the United States to realize the CCP’s ambition for world domination? Or will it maintain strong pressure on the CCP, maintain the responsibility for world leadership that the United States has always assumed, and fully contain the CCP’s threat to the free world and even human society, all of which remains to be seen.
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