By John Ubaldi, “Ubaldi Reports”

The 2020 presidential election between Republican President Donald Trump and former Democratic Vice President, Joe Biden, seeks to be a consequential choice between two individuals with deep sharp philosophical political differences; but none more glaring then on energy policy.

Throughout the presidential campaign the Democratic Party has pledged its support behind the progressive “New Green Deal” with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledging that if her party wins the White House climate change legislation will be an “early part” of 2021 agenda.

Pelosi stated that “When Joe Biden says, ‘Build back better,’ that better includes building back in a way that is resilient, that is green, that protects the planet,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. “So I don’t know if it’s one bill or it permeates a number of bills, but it is absolutely a priority.”

What Pelosi was speaking about was the Climate Action Now legislation passed in the House in May, which would recommit the U.S. to the Paris Climate Accord.

The other aspect would be to fully implement legislation she mentioned the “Moving Forward” green infrastructure package that would require states to account for climate change before undertaking projects and meet certain greenhouse gas emission goals when they accept funding.

Biden has embraced the “New Green Deal” environmental and included it into his    unity task force document he crafted with progressive Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. The central theme of Biden’s energy policy would be to reach net-zero emissions as rapidly as possible.

Democrats have committed to eliminating carbon pollution from power plants by 2035 through technology-neutral standards for clean energy and energy efficiency.  We will dramatically expand solar and wind energy deployment through community-based and utility-scale systems.

Pelosi has made her remarks on the backdrop of the devastating wildfires that have plagued the western states where close to forty people have perished, thousands of homes destroyed, and the fire scorching more than two million acres. The fire in the west has affected air quality as the sky is darkened with a red ash, blanketed by thick smoke which has blocked out the sun.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) commented that “The proof of the urgency of this situation is literally in the air around us right now. Wildfires are rampaging across the West, across an area the size of the entire state of Connecticut, polluting the lungs of countless Americans. If anyone needed any proof of how disastrously and quickly climate change is affecting our globe, look out West.”

Schumer continued, “Right now, millions of Americans are witnessing climate change in the ash and orange skies outside their windows. These catastrophic events have instigated and exacerbated climate change, and they’re not new,” Schumer continued. “Worse yet, Trump and the GOP poured gasoline on the fire by recklessly ripping apart vital environmental regulatory protections and recklessly pursuing more, not less, fossil fuel consumption production.”

What Pelosi, Schumer and Democrats fail to address is decades of failed forest management in California. The state has experienced a severe drought from 2012-2017, and in its wake has left over 129 million dead tree’s. Current California forest management restrictions prevent the state from thinning out the dead tree’s which then serves as a sort of kindling for the fires.

The solution by the Democratic leadership lead by Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden if elected president would be to duplicate California’s disastrous energy policy which have led to higher energy prices impacting low income and the minority communities.

Currently, California energy polices has resulted in energy outages, not the result of the ongoing fires, but to the states relentless quest that all energy obtained must be through renewable energy.  By eliminating fossil fuels such as natural gas, which is the cleanest of all, wind and solar are intermittent at best and cannot provide all the energy the state needs, as was the case during the recent heatwave.

David R. Henderson a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute wrote that under California law, 33 percent of electricity produced in California must come from renewable sources. The three main forms of renewable energy are solar, wind, and hydropower. In September 2018, Democratic California governor Jerry Brown signed a bill to increase that number to 50 percent by 2025, 60 percent by 2030, and 100 percent by 2045. Brown left office less than four months later, on January 7, 2019. Brown, who is now eighty-two years old, need not worry much about the mess that he and the legislature created. Current Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, and we California residents, do.

Democrats believe that wind and solar can provide the energy that the State of California needs. Unfortunately, the state of California is finding out the hard way that wind and solar are unreliable renewable energy sources. The state is beginning to realize that when the wind doesn’t blow, and the sun doesn’t shine you would need a secondary source to make up for the shortage of energy.

Polices by progressive Democrats in Sacramento, have eliminated nuclear power, and natural gas as an alternative. Thus, California pays four times for electricity and gas then what other states pay.

Just look at what Californian’s paid for electricity in 2019, with the average price per kilowatt hour (kWh) was 19.90 cents. That compares to an average of 13.31 cents for the United States as a whole. In short, Californians paid 49.5 percent more per kWH than the average American.

Pelosi, Schumer and Joe Biden want to bring California’s energy policy to the rest of America. This is a recipe for disaster!

Biden routinely states he is not abandoning fossil fuel, but past statements say otherwise.

Biden routinely stated while campaigning last month in Pennsylvania that “I am not banning fracking. Let me say that again: I am not banning fracking. No matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me.”

Even his vice presidential running mate, California Democratic Senator Kamala Harris, stated at a CNN town Hall in September 2019, while running for president , “There is no question I am in favor of banning fracking.” Now that polls are tightening Harris supports fracking as it provides “good-paying jobs in places like Pennsylvania.”

Unfortunately, for Biden he spoke differently on the campaign trail during the primaries that he would indeed end fossil fuel if elected. It’s ironic as many experts expect this would cost more than 1 Million American jobs.

For the first time since 1957, America has become energy independent and the Democratic climate energy plan would reverse that and duplicate California’s disastrous policy on the rest of America.

Instead of lower energy cost, it will be substantially higher. Instead of lower fuel prices, they would be higher. Instead of America less dependent on the Middle East, we would be more dependent.

Right now, America can view first-hand what a Democratic energy plan would like just watch California; do we want that for America?