On July 22, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will provide $4.3 billion in taxpayer-funded grants to various climate projects across the country, ahead of President Joe Biden leaving office in January. Loot was secured for grateful recipients. [emphasis, links added]
The funds will be used for 25 projects in 30 states (some projects will cross state lines) and will target greenhouse gas emissions. “Transportation, electricity, commercial and residential buildings, industry, agricultural/natural and work lands, and waste and materials management,” the EPA said in a news release.
The grants are funded by the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program, which is based on the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Biden administration's landmark climate law.
Earlier this month, the Biden Department of Energy announced Allocate $1.7 billion to 11 factories to fund the manufacturing of electric vehicles and their parts.
“President Biden understands that America needs a strong EPA,” agency administrator Michael Regan told reporters, noting that the administration “has made the largest climate investment in history. Provide billions of dollars to state, local and tribal governments to combat climate change The urgency of its demands,” The Washington Times reported.
Decarbonization and its consequences
Projects generously funded by the federal government include Pennsylvania’s statewide decarbonization plan for cement, asphalt and other materials; $307 million for Nebraska’s efforts to promote “climate-smart” practices, ostensibly to reduce agricultural and waste emissions; and efforts to install electric vehicle chargers for medium and heavy-duty vehicles along the East Coast Highway.
A Southern California air management district will receive $500 million to help decarbonize the region's transportation and trucking sectorsincluding the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
EPA grants to the region will Provide funding for “charging equipment, zero-emission freight vehicles and retrofitting cargo handling equipment to reduce emissions.”
The EPA’s climate funding continues the Biden administration’s push to invest taxpayer dollars in the transition to electric vehicles. And the timing of it seemed a little off.
Unsold electric vehicles continue to pile up in dealer lots across the country, as Ford and General Motors cut production of the vehicles, Ford loses more than $100,000 on every new electric vehicle it sells.
Then there are electric school buses.
In affluent Montgomery County, Maryland, north of Washington, D.C., an electric bus company was supposed to deliver hundreds of vehicles to the state's largest school district Its school buses had “multiple missed delivery deadlines and delayed repairs,” resulting in “millions of dollars in waste.” The Washington Post reported last week.
Some electric buses delivered had to have their batteries replaced and were plagued by high-voltage wiring issues.
Citing the Montgomery County Inspector General's report, According to the Washington Post, the school district is currently spending more than $14 million to purchase diesel buses due to vehicle shortages.
in other words, Montgomery County isn’t decarbonizing its school bus fleet, it’s recarbonizing it.
Montgomery County's electric school bus fiasco stems from the same “fund it or mandate it and they will come” mentality that was part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
In 2022, Maryland lawmakers passed a law aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including increasing the number of electric vehicles in the state. The law also requires new school buses to run only on electricity — although some exemptions are allowed. Those in charge always know best.
Maryland’s experience with yellow electric school buses is not unlike the giant rotor that recently damaged an offshore wind turbine on Nantucket Beach, Massachusetts. In both cases, politically favored green technologies failed to deliver on their promises.
New England’s offshore wind plans are subsidized by taxpayers who are also footing the bill for grants handed out by Biden’s EPA in the name of fighting climate change.
Maryland’s electric school buses are purchased with tax dollars from Montgomery County residents.
The ruling class has repeatedly claimed to protect the masses from any “existential threat” that suits its purposes. Their folly is exposed time and time again—usually not in their faces, but in the faces of the ordinary people who bear the brunt of their hubris.
The billions of dollars the EPA is spreading will not impact the climate, but will result in more precious resources being wasted.
Read the Federalist Papers to learn more
