Russia's Veto Saved the Fossil Fuels for Now

In the 1980s, the environmentalists believed that using paper grocery bags harms the environment by excessive deforestation, so they moved in the direction of replacing the paper grocery bags with plastic ones. It made sense, plastic bags made from petroleum by-products were certainly cheaper and more plentiful. Fast forward to 2021, environmentalist governments in counties like Fairfax, Virginia, moved to replace the plastic bags with paper bags by charging a tax of 5 cents per plastic bag previously given free (included in the price because nothing is free). Furthermore, a fine of $500 will be levied on anyone who dares to leave grass and other yard clippings on curbside in plastic bags other than heavy paper bags.

Fossil fuels have become environmentally and politically such a Democrat hot potato

Fossil fuels have become environmentally and politically such a Democrat hot potato that they have been labeled public enemy number one, including plastics. What exactly is Fairfax county and other like-minded counties around the nation doing with the 5 cents tax per bag, or 8 cents in other places? Will they fund the bloated Democrat government or their guaranteed basic income schemes? And how is this tax going to solve the manufactured global warming which gave rise to a very lucrative climate change industry and a huge money-maker? When Amazon and other online retailers run out of places to buy cheap shipping boxes, I wonder which forests are they going to cut down, and can excessive demand for paper and cardboard boxes keep up with supply and with tree growth? The U.N. Security Council moved to vote on December 13, 2021, on a resolution on climate change co-authored by Ireland and Niger, under the guise that adverse climate change can "lead to … social tensions …, exacerbating, prolonging, or contributing to the risk of future conflicts and instability and posing a key risk to global peace, security, and stability." The concern is that climate change affects more negatively "women, children, ethnic minorities, and the most vulnerable." Climate Change and Security: Vote on a Resolution*: What's In Blue : Security Council Report According to the New York Times, "the resolution, which enjoyed wide-ranging support, would have significantly expanded the criteria used by the most powerful U.N. agency to justify intervening in armed conflicts around the world." Russia Blocks U.N. Move to Treat Climate as Security Threat.

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The U.S. government has been busy replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power, doing severe damage to its economy and weakening its position in the world as a superpower

It is claimed that the U.N. resolution was supported by 100 countries. Twelve of the fifteen Security Council countries signed on, but Russia's veto blocked its passage. China abstained, and India, with its invited temporary membership status, also declared against the resolution. It is obvious that all three countries have similar interests, the survival of fossil fuels. The U.S. government has been busy replacing fossil fuels with wind and solar power, doing severe damage to its economy and weakening its position in the world as a superpower. Biden closed the Keystone pipeline on day one and interrupted supply. "Nearly 40% of America's electricity is produced from natural gas. When gas goes up, so does your electric bill." Varney on the 'price' of Biden eliminating fossil fuels | Fox Business The regime stopped giving new drilling permits on federal land and interrupted off-shore drilling. U.S. became again dependent on oil imports.  During President Trump's administration, America became an oil exporter. If the U.N. Security Council vote would have been unanimous in favor of the resolution, then members who would fail to take "drastic" measures recommended by "experts" to green their economies immediately, then they would have been considered aggressors against the global governance. What might have been the expectations to green a country's economy urgently? To close coal mines, oil derricks, refineries, oil and gas pipelines, and to give up fossil fuels immediately, with huge economic costs and disastrous economic results for that country.

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Russia, China, and India, with one fifth of the world's land surface and almost half of its population, saved fossil fuels for now

If a country would have refused to comply, then the most intimidating measures against it would have been justifiable, imposing a global dictatorship of the U.N. to save the planet from climate change Armageddon. So, Russia, China, and India, with one fifth of the world's land surface and almost half of its population, saved fossil fuels for now. They viewed the manufactured global warming as a political fantasy and the preservation of their economies and of their economic development as most important for their peoples. The West wants electric cars (they did not do so well recently in one foot of snow stuck for 24 hours on I-95 in Virginia), electric bikes, electric buses, ships, home and business heat and light from solar panels and wind turbines (when the wind blows and the sun shines, otherwise it is cold and dark). China wants coal burning power plants and builds them at high rates. Russia depends on natural gas and pipelines. And India is adding more coal mines. Biden's Green New Deal is neither new, nor green, nor a deal, it is a political plan aimed at killing fossil fuels and destroying the American economy that depends on the fossil fuels' reliability and consistency. So, the global warming/climate change scheme to enact global governance has been defeated so far. But the grand plan of one world government might still be realized. To achieve it now, the globalists are bringing out the pandemic green passports of Covid vaccination and the social scoring system which is already underway in China and in America.

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If you have a green passport, you are not just vaccinated and boostered, but it is proof that you are now a compliant global citizen

Restricting movement of the population can be achieved in more ways than just taking away their fossil fuels; the government can cause severe inflation, double gasoline and natural gas prices, make their currency worth less, obstruct the supply chain of necessary goods and food, restrict access to clinics and hospitals, and restrict domestic and international travel. Under draconian Covid-19 lockdown rules, two years after the declared pandemic, Australians cannot travel more than 29 km from home. How Sydney residents can travel more than 5km from home for exercise (msn.com) Mayor Muriel Bowser of D.C. has already enacted draconian rules that a person must show I.D. and a vaccine card to enter any business in D.C. It is racist to be asked to show I.D. to vote but it is necessary to enter a business. If you have a green passport, you are not just vaccinated and boostered, but it is proof that you are now a compliant global citizen, and you can be given (by the global government) the privilege to enter buildings, to fly, to travel, to board a ship, to ride a bus, a train, you can use a bank, you can buy or rent a home, you can move from one town to another, and you can attend school. The social scoring system works wonders with population compliance and obedience under the Chinese communist dictatorship. For now, Russia, China, and India have saved fossil fuels. I am not sure who or what is going to save a weakened America from its Marxist regime in control in Washington. They are busy printing money for trillion-dollar pet social programs and to finance national debt v. GDP which has reached astronomic proportions (127.61% federal and 141.24% total) at the time of this writing. The military is busy hunting down fictional, Democrat-invented systemic racism. U.S. National Debt Clock

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CFP Comments

From: B Good afternoon Doctor Paugh, I enjoyed your articles (Fossil) and thought I'd make a comment (not really like me. I'm busy). I'm a crazy person from USA. The fake govt has successfully driven us all crazy. Crazy like a fox. Note: My BOLD and tiny print are going back and forth on their own. Sometimes it bolds and then it doesn't. I give up. If it wants to BOLD, then so be it. Let's roll with it. So, if you are tired of working today, you can sit back and enjoy my take on the paper/plastic bag issue. "If you have a green passport, you are not just vaccinated and boostered, but it is proof that you are now a compliant global citizen" .... & soon to be a dead one Ahhh, the paper bag issue in USA: You see, all this bag business is done, to mess with people. To see if we are stupid enough to pay for bags. They are jerking us around. So we learned to roll with it. They can't upset us on that issue any more. We have set rules in my house, and that is, never but never PAY for any bag that a store wants to charge us for. Never. When they ask us if we want a bag, we say, "is is free"? Believe me, I spread this idea all over the country. When they say no, we say, that's why we only purchased what was absolutely necessary. We don't buy more than we can carry in our one or two hands. That's it. We've stuck to this, all these years. Stubborn? Quite. No more random and spur of the moment buying. So in a sense this game playing with bags has made us stronger and much more stubborn and we've kept more of our money in our own pockets because we buy much less because we can't carry it all. I don't know about you, but when I purchase something in a store, they owe me a bag. If they don't, and/or try to charge for it, they will lose every time. I've left items at the cash register when they say it's going to cost me for a bag. I've left whole grocery carts of food, etc in the middle of the floor, just to prove my point. The trick is, you do it to stores who you know are going to charge you for a bag, and then act very surprised when they tell you it's 10 cents a bag. Say, you;ll have to call your supervisor and void all these items and put them all back on their assigned shelves. I'll come back in with my own canvass bag tomorrow and I'll only buy what fits in it. Sorry. Have a nice day. I guess the stores are sick and tired of these games, so now we are back to free bags and they often give a choice of paper or plastic. Although they decided it was cheaper to use plastic again & often strong plastic. I like strong plastic that doesn't rip. If the thin version rips, it will likely rip in the store, some of your items will likely break and maybe something like jelly and/or olive oil or liquid soap, spills all over everything else. You make the store replace all the items free. It's their cheap thin bags that broke. Messy. Messy. Don't offer to help clean up. The strong plastic bags are not wasteful because we can all reuse them to help keep the environment clean and our trash neat and tidy on rubbish pick up day. In the car, we reuse, reuse, reuse. We are not normally wasteful. When the stores took away our plastic bags, I just dumped all of my loose untidy trash and messy used kleenex, into our personal outdoor trash bins with no bags. Blow your nose first. Egg shells, garbage. Wiping up loose dog poo? Pet vomit? Make sure to leave the paper towels part way open and drop it in with all the other loose trash. It smells great by the time they pick up the trash. So, if they decide to go back to paper bags, I'm ready for them. I will put my trash in the paper bag and of course we can't secure the bag closed, so all the rubbish will fall out all over the rubbish truck. They'll have to hose it all out at the end of the day. Mess with me and this is what happens. Right now, bags are free and the stores are happy, and I am happy. No more games..........FOR NOW. TIL they come up with some other stupid thing. I like it though. It had become a challenge for me. It's great for dealing with the stress, and puts the stress back where it belongs, in the stores who don't fight the govt back. They are the ones who should be looking out for their customers. Moral of the story (finally): Don't let them make a dancing puppet out of you. Fight back....YOUR way. Love your articles.