The Biden Crises

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Mr. GROTHMAN. Okay. I don't know why the public tolerates President Biden's energy policy. Okay. I think the policy is predicated on the idea that we have some new or booming pollution problem in this country, and that is just not true.

I particularly ask young people to pull up pictures of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, or Los Angeles, California, 50 years ago, and you will see how much better things are than they were a relatively short period of time ago. The overall air pollution in this country in the last 40 years has fallen 73 percent.

Meanwhile, in the last 10 years, carbon dioxide, which everybody likes to talk about, has fallen 7 percent. At the same time, CO2 emissions in China went up 38 percent and, in India, they went up 56 percent.

Right now, what is going on is our European allies make it that much more expensive to produce any energy. Steel plants are flooding to India and China, and China isn't backing off. They are making 43 new coal-fired power plants, as we speak.

So what is the net result of chasing energy-related jobs out of this country and out of western Europe? It means the metal-producing foundries are headed to other countries with their jobs. And as the U.S. and Europe becomes economically weaker, those jobs go to higher polluting countries like India and China. And the clean countries with the clean air and clean water, like the United States, get penalized.

So it is time to treat U.S. as number one again; for President Biden to change his energy policies; and get some more of that good air pollution-free or almost free plants in the United States, and not have the manufacturing done in the polluting countries of India and China.

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