Chris White Tech Reporter
February 12, 2020 5:48 PM ET
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a nationwide fracking ban Wednesday as Democratic presidential candidates work to paint themselves as moderates ahead of the 2020 election.
The Democratic New York congresswoman’s bill is a companion to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s legislation seeking to ban fracking across the country by 2025. If passed, the laws would prohibit natural gas production within 2,500 feet of homes and schools by 2021 and help transition energy workers away from the industry.
“Fracking is destroying our land and our water,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote Wednesday on Twitter. “It is wreaking havoc on our communities’ health. We must do our job to protect our future from the harms caused by the fracking industry.” Sanders announced his bill in February.
Democratic Rep. Darren Soto of Florida is co-sponsoring the bill. (RELATED: Here Are The Democratic Lawmakers Who Are Trying To Distance Themselves From Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal)
“If we want to transition from fossil fuel emissions as we work towards building a 100 percent clean economy, pulling back from fracking is a critical first step,” he said in a statement. “Failure to act will only make the crisis at hand even more detrimental for future generations of Americans.”
Ocasio-Cortez and Soto’s bill comes less than a year after Ocasio-Cortez introduced the so-called Green New Deal, which, among other things, calls for “10-year national mobilizations” toward addressing climate change.
The Green New Deal would reportedly phase out fossil fuels within 12 years, but could cost trillions of dollars, reports show. Americans could be forced to pay up to $93 trillion to implement the proposal over 10 years, conservative-leaning American Action Forum (AAF) noted in a study in February 2019.
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren signed on as Senate co-sponsors of the proposal before it met its demise in the Senate in March 2019. She is running for president and is one of the progressive candidates who is demanding radical change on energy production.
Other presidential candidates are angling to paint themselves as moderates who are shunning such bans. Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, for instance, joined Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar as one of a handful of presidential candidates who prefer to regulate fracking rather than ban it outright.
AOC is guest judging Rupaul’s Drag Race……I kid you not
That’s fracked.
“AOC isn’t the first politician to show up in the franchise. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was a guest judge in a 2018 episode of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars.’”
https://nypost.com/2020/02/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-to-guest-judge-on-rupauls-drag-race/
Energy is my primary expertise. The Green New Deal cannot work, because grid-connected wind and solar power generation have two fatal flaws – diffusivity and intermittency,
Green energy is not green and produces little useful (dispatchable) energy.
Besides, as we correctly wrote in 2002:
“Climate science does not support the theory of catastrophic human-made global warming – the alleged warming crisis does not exist.”
The alleged catastrophic global warming/climate change crisis is the most lucrative scientific/politician scam in history, costing trillions of dollars and millions of lives to date.
CO2 reduction schemes such as the Green New Deal and “Carbon-free By 2050” are destructive nonsense, promoted by scoundrels and believed in by imbeciles.
The Green New Deal is essentially a suicide pact for modern society – think hard before you drink the Kool-Aid.
Regards, Allan
SELECTED PAPERS:
DEBATE ON THE KYOTO ACCORD,
Published by APEGA in the PEGG, reprinted by other professional journals, The Globe and Mail and La Presse,
by Sallie Baliunas, Tim Patterson and Allan MacRae, November 2002
http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/KyotoAPEGA2002REV1.pdf
CARBON DIOXIDE IS NOT THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING, THE FUTURE CAN NOT CAUSE THE PAST
By Allan M.R. MacRae, January 2008
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/CO2vsTMacRae.pdf
COLD WEATHER KILLS 20 TIMES AS MANY PEOPLE AS HOT WEATHER
by Joseph d’Aleo and Allan MacRae, September 4, 2015
https://friendsofsciencecalgary.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cold-weather-kills-macrae-daleo-4sept2015-final.pdf
CO2, GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE AND ENERGY
by Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., June 15, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/06/15/co2-global-warming-climate-and-energy-2/
Excel: https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Rev_CO2-Global-Warming-Climate-and-Energy-June2019-FINAL.xlsx
THE REAL CLIMATE CRISIS IS NOT GLOBAL WARMING, IT IS COOLING, AND IT MAY HAVE ALREADY STARTED
By Allan M.R. MacRae and Joseph D’Aleo, October 26, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/27/the-real-climate-crisis-is-not-global-warming-it-is-cooling-and-it-may-have-already-started/
THE CATASTROPHIC ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING (CAGW) AND THE HUMANMADE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISES ARE PROVED FALSE
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc.(Eng.), M.Eng., January 10, 2020
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/the-catastrophic-anthropogenic-global-warming-cagw-and-the-humanmade-climate-change-crises-are-proved-false.pdf
She should do THAT full time, and leave the job of “congress person” to somebody who isn’t a complete nitwit.
AOC has been awfully quiet the past few months. I guess she figured she couldn’t compete with the impeachment.
AOC is a T shy of a full TACO!
And that’s on her best day!
AOC’s last name is Occluded Cortex..nothing sensible gets through.
Occassonal Cortex
AOC is plenty smart. But she needs to appeal to ignorant people, so she has to use arguments that work on that demographic.
If she’d decided that she’d have been better off appealing to conservative voters, she’d have been equally happy to trot out policies that would appeal to them.
Surely, you meant “AOC is a T shy of an empty TACO shell!”
Jim,
Fracking is mostly a business owned and managed by Republicans.
It is very profitable
AOC does not like that.
She wants to harm Republicans business owners by calling for fracking.
Democrats make their money by owning and controlling the Government.
Obama is worth about $50 million
They do not do fracking, so they are against it
Yet another station on the Via Dolorosa that the Democratic Party seems quite unable to get off. 🙂
Cortez is a genius. You have to be very smart to get elected to congress when your district is 60% Hispanic and you have a Castilian last name.
I bet her handlers have already bought all the penny renewable stocks, and now they just need to ban their competition.
Oh yeah, don’t forget to get englightened:
https://phzoe.wordpress.com/2020/02/13/measuring-geothermal-a-revolutionary-hypothesis/
Probably a low bar for genius level in her district ?
She and the other ‘Squad’ members will likely find their next appointment at the ballot box to be something of an ordeal. Remembering what happened to Cynthia MaKinney after she tried to make waves for a certain group, its odds on that AOC and the other idiots will face well funded opposition at their own primaries. Whilst I’m sure her handlers will have profited from her tenure, it may be reasonable to assume that they have not let Ms Cortez in on the joke 🙂
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed woman is queen!
Still, AOC submitted her IQ test for evaluation and her score came back negative!
Not surprising for a city-slicker that returned her sleeing bag with the claim she could never wake it up!
What an indictment on our education system, eh?
Hmm, I heard it came back square root of negative: imaginary intelligence.
Ilhan Omar and AOC are at high risk of losing their primaries. They come of course from Deep Blue districts so whoever wins the primary is guaranteed to win the seat in the General.
The other 2 (Pressley and Tlaib) are probably safe.
I’m going to put that thought in the “wishful thinking” category. Their districts are riding the rail on the left side of the road something hard. I don’t see where anyone can go that is further out than these two. No way a moderate can pick up the primary win in either case.
“No way a moderate can pick up the primary win in either case.”
IIRC, there was only a 15% turnout in her primary election. So a well-funded get-out-the-vote effort could beat her.
It’s not AOC.
It’s her handler, Saikat Chakrabarti.
Chakrabarti is American-born. He is among those whom Mark Lilla called reckless minds. People who live in freedom and prosperity, but argue for tyranny and misery.
Chakrabarti regularly wears a Subhas Chandra Bose T-shirt. Bose was convinced that British colonialism in India was so bad that collaborating first with Nazi Germany and later with WWII Japan in their vicious war in Indochina, was a fit way to end it.
Isn’t he being investigated for campaign fund abuse ?
Was not Bose aboard a Japanese plane that was shot down during WW2?
Bose is alive and living in Argentina. link
During WW2, Finland fought against the Soviet Union, which had stolen Finnish territory, alongside the Germans. The West doesn’t hold that against the Finns.
Similarly many people do not hold it against Bose that he accepted German and Japanese help trying to drive the British from India.
Bose is a national Hero in India. Kolkata Airport and a min thoroughfare in the city are named after him.
Finland in WW2 was an odd case.
After Germany invaded Poland from the east and WW2 started, Russia invaded Poland from the west but no one declared war on Russia. Russia and Germany had a nonaggression pact and half of Poland was part of the deal. A month or so later Russia invaded Finland and gained some territory (after heavy losses) in a peace treaty.
Then Germany broke it’s nonaggression pact with and attacked Russia and Russia became one of the Allies. (Sort of. Russia never declared war on Japan until after the US dropped the A-bombs.)
Then Russia re-invaded Finland.
So, just as Russia became a de facto Ally, Finland became a de facto enemy.
commieBob, your link says that Bose died and was cremated in Japan.
Joining with Nazi Germany and Japan to rid India of the British, is like joining with a sadistic murderer during a dispute with your landlord.
India would not have a national consciousness at all, had not the British recovered it after 800 years of Muslim corrosion.
AOC auditioned and was selected by her handlers for the congressional seat. She’s just a puppet figurehead controlled by her dangerous handlers. Watch the evidence presented here and decide for yourself:
I don’t see why we in Europe should be the only ones to torch our economy by enacting green measures.
I reckon the green deal ought to be implemented within 18 months thereby enabling our economies to compete on a level paying field of bankruptcy and severe shortages.
Tonyb
Tonyb
I think this is called the “ let the child touch the hot stove” strategy.
Misery likes company.
It’s akin to hoping everyone else is as foolish as they have been, so they don’t feel so foolish.
Cortez is a genius. You have to be very smart to get elected to congress when your district is 60% Hispanic and you have a Castilian last name.
I bet her handlers have already bought all the penny renewable stocks, and now they just need to ban their competition.
Oh yeah, don’t forget to get englightened:
https://phzoe.wordpress.com/2020/02/13/measuring-geothermal-a-revolutionary-hypothesis/
Genius? Ha! — She’s a human robot ripe for programming, the winner of an acting audition for a part for which she has been directed and produced into a super star.
I figure you’re joking, but, just in case … (^_^)
Another foolish lefticrat attempt to throttle America’s energy independence.
How dare you!
She must have read the same books as the lady that did the Gillette advert.
Meh, why? We’ll all be dead in what, 12, 10, 8, 4 years anyway, right progressives? I can’t keep up with the ever changing goal posts with these nitwits.
Nitwits are smarter….
Oh? Nitwits have wits the size of nits!
Change my mind! 😉
I have to agree that nitwits are smarter than Ms. Occasionally-Conscious. She is dumber than an dead flashlight battery in the rain. (I’m being nice today.)
Her IQ is probably OK. Taleb would call her Intellectual Yet Idiot (IYI). That means, in spite of a more than adequate IQ, she still can’t find a coconut on Coconut Island.
The Democrat party is infested with IYIs.
AOC is just plain dumb – she cannot win any debate about the goodness of fracking. And ending fracking would not magically produce “clean” alternatives – natural gas is a very clean fuel. The path to a low/no carbon energy system runs thru molten salt gen 4 nuclear reactors. Other nations are dumping wind and solar as alternative power generators – China has actually banned any further wind turbines, after a period of heavy construction of these generators.
They don’t call it a ban, they call it curtailment. A Cautionary Tale
I started paying attention to wind power perhaps thirty years ago. As far as I can remember, the received wisdom was that more than 16% wind power would destabilize the grid. As far as I can tell, that figure hasn’t moved much.
The Chinese built too much wind power in the wrong places. They did the world a favor by doing that experiment. We now know that it is very possible to have too much wind power.
She doesn’t need to explain why she wants to ban fracking – we already know it’s because she is so ignorant.
I just wish Congress would do something useful and ban her!
Honestly can’t we make it a law that you have to passed a test on a subject BEFORE you can sponsor a law on it? “Understanding the subject” is such a powerful force.
Everything liberals do is intended to impoverish, humiliate, and demoralize the lower classes.
Shutting down drilling deprives working class people of highly paid jobs and forces the Untermenschen to freeze in the dark. It is a win win for liberals.
If the unemployed, cold, and demoralized become drug addicts and OD, that is a trifecta.
AOC is a fracking idiot.
Well, if she is successful in banning fracking, then she will upgrade herself to a mere “idiot”!
A fracking genius she will never be!
Stop insulting idiots.
I can’t think of anything AOC has said that has made any sense. When I listen to her talking I just sit there and shake my head in amazement.
She sounds like she knows what she is talking about because she is so confident of her talking points, but what comes out is just confident gibberish that has no relation to the real world.
These Radical Democrats live in a completely different world. We don’t want to live in that bizarre world.
AOC has a Republican woman running against her this next time around.
The ignorant are confident in their own ability because they aren’t aware how little they know. Intelligent well educated know how limited their knowledge is and make an effort to get as much information as they can
Dunning Kruger in action.
Out here in “fly-over” country, the number of small farms and ranches that run on 30-50 year old fossil fuel motors is countless. Replacing these vehicles even with modern day *fossil fuel* equivalents is out of the reach of 90% of there owners, let alone with electrical variants at the nearly 100% markup over their dinosaur burning brethren.
If one *actually* cared about climate change, fracking enables the natural gas production which cuts the specific emissions of CO2 in half vs. coal. You stop fracking, you start burning more coal — or you go back to rolling blackouts and brownouts….
Gah!!!!
“If we want to transition from fossil fuel emissions as we work towards building a 100 percent clean economy, pulling back from fracking is a critical first step,”
This proves these “humans” have a poor thinking skill set.
You cannot build the electric cars, wind turbines, solar panels without the raw organic molecules that fossil fuel industry provides. And the clearing of more natural habitat to grow the organic molecules actually increases our industrialized footprint.
I would call them morons but that would be insulting to morons.
I’m sorry but for me here in England I cannot understand why this women isn’t back waiting on tables or in a straight jacket incarcerated in a mental institution.
We have our rats here too, it’s true but you over in the USA, I suppose I look to yourselves to lead the way in crushing these commies with methods we can emulate.
For all the awful people we have here in the US, john, none of them match the incarnate evil of the UK’s George Galloway.
Simple – she won an election and her 4 year term isn’t up yet. Come November, we shall see…l
2 year term.
Gove? Look for the image of him sitting at the feet of St Greta. Then be afraid.
JF
Only 2 MPs voted against the bill declaring a climate emergency. Before that I only suspected that the place was being run by a bunch of idiots, now we have conclusive evidence.
AOC already has several Democrat primary challengers including former CNBC news anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, who is said to be quite anti-socialism. If AOC loses in the primary she’s history.
To fight obesity we should ban eating.
Am I doing this right?
not exactly…..you move all the Burger Kings to China and the 3rd world
Burger King now has its fake meat burger: The impossible Whopper. It contains bio-engineered plant heme so that it bleeds red.
🤮
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/1/20750704/burger-king-nationwide-rollout-impossible-whopper-august-8
Which makes them one the more over processed “foods” to ever exist. And yet these same lessrons argue over non-gmo (does not exist, as nature’s from of evolution requires organisms to modify themselves to adapt to changing environmental conditions) and organic farming.
Yep, you got it!
You do not ban all eating.
You only ban eating things that are metabolically efficient … you can still eat grass (no seeds though), bark, certain kinds of moss/lichen. You only get to eat things that take more energy to obtain and eat than the energy you get out of them.
I think she left a big gap in her tin foil hat. The space rays are getting and and drivel leaking out.
The UK’s high court ruling today for upholding freedom of expression. As far as I understand it you can insult anyone as long as you don’t say you hate the person. Fact that a person may be offended it is tough. Lot of minors may get into trouble running around shouting at each other ‘I hate you!’
These people always talk about “fracking” as if they mean “all” oil and gas production, including “conventional” oil and gas production. Actually, “fracking” is the part of shale production after the drilling is complete. They should read a little bit.
How much fracking actually takes place now within 2,500 feet of homes and schools? Isn’t much of this gesture already accomplished by local zoning laws? At most this is a sensible, (and virtue-signaling) control placed on the fracking boom, but hardly slows it down. A way to cast herself as an enviro heroine.
I would say that is the well is 1 – 2 miles deep, then the fracking is taking place well beyond the 2500ft mark.
From LiveScience.com:
“In simplified terms, the fracking process starts with a well that is drilled vertically or at an angle from the surface to a depth of 1 to 2 miles (1.6 to 3.2 kilometers) or more, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ”
The drilling operation starts at the surface, but the fracking takes place well below the surface. I live in upstate NY where Fracking is banned. BUT, on the other side of the NY/PA state line, farmers are reaping a good profit from allowing the drilling on their lands. I’ve heard many a family farm was saved by allowing the recovery of this clean fuel.
I would prefer to “Go Thorium!” But that’s another discussion..
NG as a 60+ year bridge then LFTR or some other nuclear tech for the next 1000+
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Fran Pavely for a new generation.
So much for the Democrats’ claim to base public policy on science and solid engineering.
Emotion and fear mongering in the pursuit of political power is what drives this kind of legislation from acknowledged Socialists like Bernie and AOC.
This can’t repeated enough these days:
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
– H L Mencken
This either –
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
– H L Mencken
(Best one line description of the “Climate Crisis” you’ll ever see or hear.)
Recently reported here on WUWT
https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/CoC_BannedFracking_FULL_v3.pdf
Highlights from a ban on fracking report from Chamber of Commerce
“The United States would lose 14.8 million jobs”
“Gasoline prices would almost double”
“Natural gas prices would skyrocket to over $12 per mmBtu”
“U.S. electricity prices would nearly double”
“COST-OF-LIVING WOULD GO UP BY NEARLY$4,000 A YEAR, WHILE HOUSEHOLD INCOMES WOULD DROP BY $873 BILLION”
“THE U.S. WOULD SURRENDER ITS STATUS AS A GLOBAL ENERGY SUPERPOWER”
“U.S. GDP WOULD BE REDUCED BY $1.6 TRILLION”
“OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA, COLORADO, AND TEXAS WOULD BE AMONG THE HARDEST HIT BY A BAN”
Oh, but all those problems…they would be solved by covering states with solar panels and building millions of windmills, and oh some wonderful new powerful battery would be invented to provide energy at night or when the wind is not blowing. AOC and Bernie don’t care about facts and the millions of average Americans that would be harmed.
…I’m just waiting for the battery!
I put that expectation in with my Lottery winnings!
Har!
Storage. The final frontier. That has always been the Achilles Heel of wind and solar. Long term, cheap, reliable storage. If you are in an area where you can do pumped hydro you might be able but aside from PH I’ve seen nothing yet.
But Bernie and AOC won’t be harmed and that is all that is important.