Chris White Tech Reporter
February 21, 2020 10:32 AM ET
Democratic 2020 candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren said at a CNN town hall Thursday that the so-called Green New Deal is not a sufficient policy to tackle what she believes is the biggest problem facing the world.
Americans need to focus on pushing the envelope further than what Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was willing to do when she proposed the GND, according to Warren. The Massachusetts Democrat has expressed support for the legislation in the past.
“What I want to see us do is get off an oil economy and not only for ourselves, but for the rest of the world,” Warren, a Democrat, said as she explained why the GND does not go far enough to prevent climate change.
She added: “I want to see us move entirely to green. And let me say on this, I not only support a Green New Deal, I don’t think it goes far enough. I also have a Blue New Deal, because we’ve got to be thinking about our oceans as well that we need to protect.”
WATCH:
The resolution, among other things, calls for “10-year national mobilizations” toward a series of goals aimed at fighting global warming. A separate fact sheet claims the plan would “mobilize every aspect of American society on a scale not seen since World War 2.””It seeks to nix oil production outright.
Recent reports suggest the GND could cost tens of trillions of dollars. Americans could be forced to pay up to $93 trillion to implement the proposal over a decade, the conservative-leaning American Action Forum (AAF) noted in a study in February.
Still, Warren is moving forward on lofty plans to wallop the industry. (RELATED: Liz Warren Pushes Bill Imposing Green New Deal Climate Goals On The US Military)
She is also supporting a ban on hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling that involves spraying high pressure water and sand underground to make tiny fractures in rock to release gas, which can then be liquified. She proposed a plan in June 2019 to spend $2 trillion over a decade to create one million green jobs.
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Perhaps this statement will gain the same popularity as “I have no recollection of that” and “I was taken out of context”
If they are proposing the banning of oil production, a consequence would be that there would be no oil exports and yet she has not thought through the ramifications of this.
It seems that they spout a word salad that will please their current audience with no thought for the consequences of those words, then it is others who cannot fulfil the promises.
So she wants to appeal to AOC fans to get votes, make herself sound “better” by taking it even farther, and sticking with AOC’s “Green New Deal” tagline but changing it to “Blue” to make it seem different.
Good gawd she’s pathetic.
What’s next…a Blue-Green New Deal from Bernie?
The Democrats, taken over by the Progressives, are a dumpster fire. If they ever come into political power again the US is finished as we know it. All this talk about ceasing fossil fuel dependency is nothing but virtue signaling hot air without an iota of critical thinking how it would be possible. They truly believe sun and wind can power the earth 100%. It’s pathetic. Unless the people can return the Democratic party to sanity they are finished.
“She is also supporting a ban on hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling that involves spraying high pressure water and sand underground to make tiny fractures in rock to release gas, which can then be liquified. “
What an atrocious sentence.
Hopefully “Chris White, Tech Reporter” didn’t actually write that.
And altruistic Big Green will back her all the way in return for favors of course. How grandiose can someone actually get. And clueless.
She ignores facts as usual. The “rest of the world” isn’t going to reduce CO2 emissions, for what good it does. Besides China and India the rest of the less developed countries are planning an all up build out of coal fired electric plants(mostly funded by China- if it doesn’t collapse from the corona virus) which will produce 3-4x what the current well-developed countries will be producing.
Well the Nevada Democratic Caucus results have Pocahontas coming in fourth place this Saturday night as I write this. And she is likely to do very poorly in South Carolina’s primary next Saturday as well.
The Faux Cherokee took Bloomberg’s scalp as a prize at last Tuesday’s debate. I have no doubt she plans a similar ambush this coming Tuesday at the debate in South Carolina. I think this debate the feminist fake Indian from Oklahoma will be aiming to take Midget Mike’s billionaire balls as a trophy before she has to drop out as her donor funding will be gone.
Warren is going to need a lot more sweaters , but she won’t need her glasse to sit in the dark and shiver.
Such a deal! At $93-Trillion for the GND that’s only $310,000 per U.S. citizen over ten years! Thanks Liz and AOC, I can look forward to my total enslavement for the next decade to pay for your junk, social-science experiment and never be able to retire.
The softer approach. Trust in me deplorables as I’m committed to changing the climate by whenever the next mob can manage it but in the meantime anoint me as I have all the politically correct motives and the subsidy miners approval and backing on this-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/anthony-albanese-says-labors-2050-zero-emissions-target-will-be-economy-wide/ar-BB10hzGp
Up the workers!
From the article: “She added: “I want to see us move entirely to green. And let me say on this, I not only support a Green New Deal, I don’t think it goes far enough. I also have a Blue New Deal, because we’ve got to be thinking about our oceans as well that we need to protect.”
Elizabeth Warren is calling for a “Blue New Deal” as a means of separating herself from the other candidates.
I think Elizabeth will be giving up the race here in the very near future, right after Super Tuesday. Sanders, Biden and Alfred E. Newman are the three winners in Nevada tonight with Elizabeth coming in a distant fourth.
Biden’s mental condition seems to be getting worse. He claimed the other day that he had been arrested in South Africa when he was down there protesting racism, but there’s no record of him ever being arrested and noone that was with him on the trip backs up his story. He’s been caught in another blooper. Another unforced error.
So it looks like Bernie Sanders will be the Demcrat nominee unless they screw him out of it at the Democrat convention, which isn’t out of the question.
I find it curious that, when I watched, the video it was immediately followed by the Billie Eilish video of “All the Good Girls Go To Hell”.
The Guardian goes with- So what if it costs whatever!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/comment-bernie-sanders-plans-may-be-expensive-but-inaction-would-cost-much-more/ar-BB10hOQA
Didn’t work for Bill Shorten and Labor in Oz last time with the line- You can’t put a price on climate change!
You’d think with a name like Bill he’d get it a lot better than the previous lemmings going down that path. It’s like this stoopids. Some free pink batts, LED light globes, shower heads, draught stoppers and some solar subsidies is fine but don’t whatever you do start talking about carbon taxes and whatever it takes or that way to the cliff and look lively lemming.
Did she walk off another private jet to make that pronouncement? Besides, lets face it, the fake Injun ain’t ever going to be POTUS. I do have to say though that I liked how she repeatedly kicked Mini Mike in the family jewels at the last debate.
Dizzy Lizzy has completely gone to town riding backwards on a donkey.
Democrats playing the long game. Warren spouting nonsense to make Sanders look like a reasonable alternative to Trump.
Well you could be right as she chopped up the Bloomer with the Metoo base so get behind another old white haired male Marxist gals. You have to contextualise the ironyng nowadays.
Again, a simple question for Liz and the others – Once you eliminate fossil fuels, how do you plan on manufacturing renewables?
She hasn’t thought about it in terms of that specific part but….cue applause
Shhh! Stop asking reasonable questions, you must believe in the unicorn farts!
Here is why no one in their party speaks out against their BS.
Whenever one does, they have an overwhelming urge to go for a walk on a desolate road and commit Arkancide:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/philip-haney-dhs-whistleblower-during-obama-era-found-dead-police-say
The Green Deal, the Dumbocrats working for a Trump landslide in the 2020 Presidential election. Have the Dumbocrats never heard of the old adage “When you are in a hole the first thing to stop doing is digging”
“Green” jobs are like growing food crops with digging sticks, fishing with wooden spears, and sleeping in hollow logs.
Ditzy Cortez and Dizzy Ms. Lizzie are leading a race to the bottom — who can obliterate the modern American economy and lead us back into the Stone Age faster?
He’s right he is driving the media totally crazy and he even tells them that’s what he’s doing and they still do it-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/what-would-happen-if-trump-refused-to-leave-office/ar-BB10iIPN
He’s the best. LOL.