From article Biden's executive order makes a mockery of the infrastructure bill. Larry Kudlow. April 20, 2022.
Kudlow slams the president's war against fossil fuels.
There they go again! The "they" is Team Biden.
The "again" is another round of massive regulatory increases that will cost millions of hard-hat blue collar jobs and prevent any new energy pipelines, probably new utilities and WILL VIRTUALLY STOP THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW OR EXTENDED BRIDGES, HIGHWAYS AND TUNNELS.
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The move will significantly raise environmental reviews of all these infrastructure type projects, COMPLETELY REVERSING ONE OF DONALD TRUMP'S BEST POLICIES WHICH STREAMLINED NEPA (NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT POLICY ACT) PERMITS AND TIMETABLES.
This issue is dear to my heart because President Trump's infrastructure reforms were developed in our National Economic Council, where I worked closely with Andrew Olmem and Francis Brooke.
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Before Trump it took 7, 10, even 15 years to get a new building permit through the executive branch.
TRUMP BROUGHT PERMITTING DOWN TO ONE TO TWO YEARS and took out excessive, unscientific, radical enviro approval layers.
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"Restoring these basic community safeguards will provide regulatory certainty, reduce conflict and help ensure projects get built right the first time," according to White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory.
Notice, she didn't say projects would get built on time.
She said projects will get built right the first time, BUT THE FIRST BUILD TIME COULD BE FOREVER, OR MAYBE EVEN NEVER.
This executive order makes a mockery of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed with Republican votes last fall.
Only about 10% of the $1.2 trillion would've gone to bridges, roads and tunnels anyway, but the Biden executive overreach could shrink those projects to nothing.
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Their new enviro impact statement regulation will include a so-called cumulative impact on existing or new projects, cumulative.
That could go back a century or even forward a century and there's no way to measure it.
This is THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE RADICAL LEFT CLIMATE ACTIVIST IDEA OF THE SOCIAL COST OF CARBON, back a century, forward a century, upstream producers and/or downstream users.
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You think anybody could figure that out?
They're just GINNING UP A HIGH SOCIAL CARBON COST THAT WILL LEAD THEM TO REJECT ANY NEW INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.
Incidentally, besides the word "cumulative," these new regs that are supposed to cut red tape (more regulations = less red tape?) will also include direct and indirect impacts on the environment.
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When you include the EPA which is chock full of Biden radicals and you'll need signoffs for water and air.
The Federal Highway Administration inside the Transportation Department that is supposed to make these decisions will never be able to make them because ALL THESE PROJECT REVIEWS COVER SO MANY AGENCIES THAT IT LITERALLY WILL TAKE FOREVER.
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The new rules specify any new infrastructure projects — including a widening of a clogged highway in a high growth red state, or ANY CONSTRUCTION EXPANSION THAT WAS SO-CALLED UNPLANNED — WILL BE SHUNTED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PILE OF THE ADMINISTRATORS.
This is specified in the fine print.
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Then finally, this being the Bidens, there will be special attention to so-called disadvantaged communities and under-represented groups.
Their new rule supposedly reconnect these disadvantaged communities and under-represented groups.
But IF YOU CAN'T BUILD A NEW HIGHWAY, OR BRIDGE, OR ROAD, OR UTILITY, HOW CAN YOU CONNECT UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUPS?
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Any new construction will be put at the bottom of the pile in the administrators’ inboxes.
But GOING TO THE TOP OF THE ADMINISTRATORS’ PILE OF THIS INFAMOUS INBOX ARE GREEN PROJECTS that would help electric vehicles, charging stations and renewable energy generation.
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At some point, somebody's going to take this new Biden executive order to the federal courts and quite possibly the Supreme.
THEIR NEW RULES ARE A REWRITE OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE LAW JUST PASSED IN CONGRESS AND THAT'S NOT THE ROLE OF REGULATORS.
Finally, because all the Biden lefty greenies are once again driving policy, it makes a mockery not only of the just passed infrastructure bill—that wasn't very good anyway—but IT TELLS YOU THE BIDEN WAR AGAINST FOSSIL FUELS IS ALIVE AND WELL.
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“They're just ginning up a high social carbon cost that will lead them to reject any new infrastructure projects.”
“Construction that grows the economy would be limited and delayed and green projects zat shrink the economy would be fast-tracked.”
Positive Republicans want to grow the economy, negative Democrats want to shrink the economy.
Under Biden Green consultants and lawyers will be enriched and the new building projects other than green ones will be delayed or denied.
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Oll of this now and forever makes sense if one understands and accepts tHAT atomic philosophy: about half of us are negative misery-lovers, the more poverty and misery and enjoying complaining the better.
Once we accept the reality dem socialists want misery not happy oll their illogical nonsense makes sense.
Socialism is the goal, it’s best tool for spreading and cementing misery.
Same 47.5% negative, 47.5% positive, 5% quark shapeless forms percents in every country.
In North Korea, China, and Russia the negatives + quarks have prevailed, but mostly socialists elsewhere have flailed, failed and wailed.
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The Dems’ global warming alarmist nonsense makes sense when we see the Green New Deal as not about bringing temperatures down but rather about bringing U.S. and All us down.
The current period of natural global warming is perfect timing, a dream and magic for U.S. government-takeover aiming socialists.
Anti-economy grow, penury-equality-desiring misery-wuvving (we’re united victims and victimizers) Democrats and socialists are depressed and distressed about the past repeated failures of socialism to take hold and spread deadening misery around the world.
Socialism has been unable to defeat and wrest freedom from us, to take hold and drive the U.S. and All down and back to Old, to being miserable underlings under downlooking kings.
Notice almost oll climate change alarmists are Democrats and Socialists.
Deal Democrats have at last found a stealth method to impose socialism, misery and government-dependency on All including us 50% Republicans who don’t want it: create and imagine an impending climate change disaster and grow huge government to fight zat.
Dems know zei ゼイdon’t have to struggle long to impose woke climate change alarmism fed and led socialism on U.S., just weaken us and invite in strong China to do zat for dem.
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