Common Sense Energy: Pictures are worth 1000 words

This week’s “Common Sense” goes to Joe Biden for correctly continuing the Trump Administration’s position of supporting tariffs on imported solar cells and modules — an industry which China dominates.

China supplied the United States 80 percent of the rare earth materials between 2014 and 2017 necessary for the creation of renewable energy sources such as solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles. Mining for these rare earth materials has caused “cancer villages” in China resulting from contaminated mine waste. Learn more about why Chinese rare earth materials are bad HERE.

This week’s “Nonsense” goes to Massachusetts for trying to phase out natural gas for cooking and heating homes, where the average temperature in January is 22 degrees.   The plan would require electric heat, which “tends to be pricier in colder climates that require more powerful heat pumps that can function in subfreezing temperatures. Such systems may require backup and can be costlier to run in the cold because they lose efficiency as temperatures drop.”

This is not the time working class Americans can afford to pay more for extreme far-left policies. But instead of making energy more affordable by embracing natural gas in America, Joe Biden is begging foreign countries to pump more oil for us to import.

That is nonsense.

Americans are now paying 46% more for gasoline now than they were a year ago. The current national average is $3.19/gallon. It was $2.18/gallon one year ago.