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China Not Alone With an Energy Crisis



China went from dominating green energy to begging Americans for coal. Last year President Xi Jinping announced that Communist China was going to go carbon neutral by 2060. Like every Communist 5 year plan, it began with lies and ended in disaster, reports Daniel Greenfield.1 The 14th Renewable Energy Development Five Year Plan would have China dominate the green energy industry and increase its share of non fossil fuel energy from 15% to 20%. That was last year. This year, China is importing American coal to keep the lights on in its cities.

China is desperately rationing energy

China's desperate buying spree has sent the price of lignite coal, the dirtiest coal, up from $20 to $120. While Democrats are trying to destroy coal in America, our shipments of coal have increased 30 times making China our second biggest coal market.1 Meanwhile, millions of Chinese residents lost power after widespread, 'unexpected' blackouts. The power company warned this is 'new normal.' The extent of the blackouts is not yet clear, but nearly 100 million people were affected in three provinces.2 China is desperately rationing energy. Some places are only allocated a few days of power a week. Part of the supply chain disaster wreaking havoc on American consumers is actually originating at the source with some Chinese factories only being given power for a day or two leaving them unable to manufacture products or fulfill orders.

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China is not the only country that got slammed by the green energy hoax

Even as it cracks down on conventional fossil fuels, China still does not have a credible alternative 'green' source of energy. Adding insult to energy, various regions have been criticized by the government for failing to make energy reduction targets, putting pressure on local officials not to expand power consumption.2 The US is currently experiencing widespread supply chain disruptions caused in part by China's disastrous renewable energy collapse, which has led to a severely crippled economy brought on by widespread power blackouts.3 China is not the only country that got slammed by the green energy hoax. In February 2015, Reuters reported the collapse of the wind power market in Australia. The liberal government there was pulling the plug on state subsidies for the renewable energy industry. Without those subsidies, investor interest evaporated. So much for the claims that wind and solar technologies are already competitive.4 Australia is just the latest ship's prow to warn us away from the treacherous path of green energy mandates, taxes, and subsidies. Among the others have been Germany, Spain, and Italy. In Spain, the promises of a green job bonanza proved to be pie in the sky. A study found that for every green job created, Spain lost 2.2 jobs in other sectors of the economy.3

Germany's vision of a clean environmentally friendly energy system is in reality morphing into an environmental dystopia of catastrophic proportions

Germany's vision of a clean environmentally friendly energy system is in reality morphing into an environmental dystopia of catastrophic proportions. Government auditors see Energiewende (mandated transition to renewable energy) was and continues to be expensive making the country's residential electricity prices the highest of Europe and costing billions in future network costs, as well as exposing the country to energy supply shortfalls that puts it at risk for blackouts.5

Americans rank climate concerns at the bottom of virtually every list

While renewable energy was falling flat on its face in these places, a procession of doomed-to-fail green energy projects were launched in the US, where billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies funded wind and solar start-ups. During the 2020 presidential campaign Joe Biden boldly stated he would 'make the largest investment in history in American innovation, including research to unlock and deploy new zero carbon technologies for the future, and create stable well-paying jobs across the US.' When John Kerry, Biden's climate czar, headed off to China to plead with the regime to cut back on its use of coal, the Communists humiliated Kerry and read off a list of demands, including an end to sanctions on it slave labor solar panels. Kerry dutifully returned once more from Asia spouting the Communist propaganda of his hosts and once again he was taken for a ride by his captors.1 Survey after survey shows that Americans rank climate concerns at the bottom of virtually every list, even when the lists are restricted to environmental problems. The hysterical predictions of imminent doom, unfulfilled as the various dates pass, have created a global warming fatigue.4 You would think we could learn from the mistakes of others but don't bet on it.

References

  1. Daniel Greenfield, “Red China tried to go green, now it's going dark,” frontpagemag.com, October 11, 2021
  2. “The next pandemic: China's faux energy crisis,” Principia Scientific Intl., October 14, 2021
  3. John Eidson, “China's stunning green energy collapse should come as no surprise,” thebluestateconservative.com, October 14, 2021
  4. David Kreutzer, “In Australia, the green energy fantasy has collapsed,” dailysignal.com, February 28, 2015
  5. “Germany energy taxes to go green with Energiewende lead it to go bust,” naturalgasnow.org, April 15, 2021


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Jack Dini is author of Challenging Environmental Mythology.  He has also written for American Council on Science and Health, Environment & Climate News, and Hawaii Reporter.


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