Letter: Climate change hoax continues - Bismarck Tribune
Letter: Climate change hoax continues
Several recent Tribune articles have pushed the unsubstantiated claim that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide causes global warming (“What to make of the National Climate Assessment” (11/20/23); “Tracing the origins of our current climate crisis” (11/29/23); and “Billion-dollar disasters climbing” (1/26/24)). Our Bismarck area liberal platoon (Lloyd Omdahl/Trevor Stavig) have added their uninformed opinions. The Biden Administration continues to push the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IFA) which passed without a single Republican vote. New electric vehicles (EVs) are increasing on car dealers’ lots. Ford Motor Company lost $4 Billion on its 2023 EV operations and is projecting a greater loss for 2024. Hertz will dispose of its EV fleet of 20,000 cars because they cannot lease them and the maintenance costs are high. The IFA was estimated to cost $370 Billion; the incentives/tax credits are not capped – Bloomberg has estimated the cost could triple to $1 TRILLION! The IFA also established a loan fund of $400 Billion which is administered by John Podesta (Politician Clinton/Obama). Remember Solyndra? Watch for loan losses in this slush fund!
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North Dakota (NoDak) has joined in this hoax through the Department of Environmental Quality’s (NDDEQ) development of the NoDak Priority Climate Action Plan. The NDDEQ has conducted 24 meetings and 3 online sustainability input forums to obtain public comments on NoDak's proposed plans to reduce man-made greenhouse gas emissions. NoDak has already wasted $3 million on this process and we will waste an additional $2-500 million of taxpayers’ money on the next phase depending on the grant’s size.
Jim Peluso (2/20/24) commented correctly that the Summit Carbon Pipeline won’t affect the climate. To respond to his questions, see my letter of February 21, 2023; the tax credits will cost taxpayers $12 BILLION plus the time value of the accelerated depreciation on the $5.5 billion investment.
Rod J. Kuhn, Bismarck
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