Biden’s plan would undermine US energy independence

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It’s been nearly 500 days since the Green New Deal failed to receive a single vote on the Senate floor. Instead of going back to the drawing board, Democrats have doubled their bet on the initiatives outlined in that disastrous $93 trillion proposal.

This week, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made a desperate attempt to shore up the support of Green New Deal enthusiasts. Biden has proposed the “Build Back Better Plan for an Equitable Clean Energy Future,” which includes spending $2 trillion over the next four years to dramatically eliminate fossil fuels, turn the energy industry on its head, and eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs — all while magically “transforming” the American blue-collar economy into a “green” economy.

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