Trump’s remarks about energy during the campaign were unmistakable. When he quipped about wanting to be dictator for a day it was to close the border and “drill, drill, drill.” When asked how he would reduce the cost of living he said he would rapidly expand energy production with a target of cutting energy costs by at least 50 per cent. And on election night he said again: the United States has the oil, the liquid gold, and is going to use it.
Soon U.S. climate policy will no longer be a thing. The Biden administration delivered extravagant green energy subsidies under the Inflation Reduction Act. They were easy to bring in and will be just as easy for Trump to eliminate, especially the ones targeted at Democratic special interest groups. Trump 2.0 will not settle for merely stalling on new climate action; it’s more likely to try to dismantle the entire climate bureaucracy.
In 2016 Trump did not understand how Washington could thwart a president’s plans. But he learned many hard lessons merely trying to survive lawfare, resistance and open insubordination. It took three years for him to install people in senior positions in the climate area who could begin to push back against the vast regulatory machine. But at that late stage they had neither time nor capacity to get much done.
This term should be different. Trump’s team has spent years developing legal and regulatory strategies to bring full executive authority back to the Oval Office so it can execute plans quickly and efficiently. His top priority is hydrocarbon development and his team is in no mood for compromise. As for climate, Trump recently remarked “Who the hell cares?”
That’s the reality. Now our own policy-makers must decide what to ask of Canadians in terms of shouldering the costs of climate policies.
Far more relevant than Trump’s plans to dismantle the US climate boondoggle is the fact that the Democrats barely mentioned climate — if at all — during their entire campaign. Even they know it’s a dead issue.
What Canada needs is trade negotiators like Harper or Wall who understand the energy industry, mining industry, economics and the importance of Can/US trade and politics. What we’ll get under Trudeau are social activists and CCP compromised politicians talking about LGTBQ, abortion, Canadian culture and other non-economic social issues important to Quebec and big city Ontario.
Alberta and Saskatchewan would be better off negotiating and signing bilateral agreements on trade directly with the US.
Not Harper…
“Now our own policy-makers must decide what to ask of Canadians in terms of shouldering the costs of climate policies.”
See, this is the problem we have allowed to arise in Canada. Policy-makers should be shivering in fear, shaking in their boots at the thought of what CANADIANS are going to decide about the insane climate policies they have foisted upon us, against our will.
Ross McKitrick, like most Canadian media mouthpieces, is utterly backwards. Which is why I didn’t bother to read his article, and why I do not buy the paper. May bankruptcy take them, and swiftly.
Must be some other McKitrick you’re thinking of.
McKitrick and McIntyre flattened Mann’s hockey stick.
How much Ross McKitrick have you read? Doesn’t sound like much. Maybe avail yourself of some McKitrick before you say something.
McKitrick isn’t a Post journalist. He just looks like one in print like that, it comes with the territory.
A top priority ought to be to end the requirement for diesel engines to be zero emission. That would mean a huge drop in the cost of semis as well as construction and ag equipment. We’ll see if that pans out, or if manufacturers would now loudly proclaim that the mandates should stay in place because of the massive cost of tooling up for them.
The Spawn only knows what Butts infused him with and since he is more arrogant monarch than slimy politician, he will cling to their plans for deindustrialization along with his Green Peace felon and fellow Quebec-donated psychopath. He has the CBC and his other bought-off media who will support him to the end of his mandate. Canada will continue down the path of Germany until the next election while 4/5ths of the planet will embrace fossil fuels and the derived prosperity from its use. Given the Spawn’s vindictiveness and numeracy skills, he no doubt believes Canada alone can save the planet from spontaneous combustion by eliminating our Oil patch and with it all those nasty conservatives out west.
Envision the Lib/NDP/BQ coalition looking at USA increases in ‘carbon’ emissions and reacting by going full Khmer Rouge to neutralize the ‘global impact’.
Good! I cannot wait.
As a side note … as each year passes … the global warming scam is revealed as a complete farce. The seas don’t rise … the temps vary within completely normal and historic ranges … and CA is NOT in the grips of “neverending drought”. At the same time, all this climate nonsense has made everyone’s energy use (and everything else that is dependent upon energy) unaffordable. The normies are having the scales fall from their eyes. There is now, and will be more public support for chasing the rent-seeking scammers OUT of our government.
How will CBC and other Canadian legacy media tell their followers to vote in the next federal election? Many people think/hope Pollievre is a shoe-in, but Trump hatred in Canada, coupled with voter ignorance courtesy of their loyalty to the legacy media, can put that in jeopardy.
My thoughts also, especially in French only Quebec, the most msm brainwashed of us all…they will vote Trudeau because Trump backs Poilievre but I bet less than if it was 2016. I don’t hear many Q’ers liking Trudeau except the Gatineau area, of course, Ottawa’s suburb….many are still stuck on the Bloc but Poilievre is currently delivering solid commercial asking Q’ers what’s the Bloc’s use other than serving Liberals ease of win.
CC, it doesn’t matter what the legacy media tells Canadians. Like everywhere else in the world, numbers of viewers or listeners of the legacy goofs have been falling through the floor for the past two decades. The US national election last week confirmed for everyone that the legacy media has ZERO ability to shape public opinion. Specific groups of Canadians will vote for Justatwit because it is in their financial interest to do so. The media will be irrelevant to this.
Trump should be happy to know that the US is producing more oil than any other country, ever!
Perhaps the Liberals will try for dual-use programs?
Justin can always call his friend Hillary to find out how many BTU’s the average body produces when burnt?
I’m betting the ridiculous corn-sourced ethanol industry stays intact.
Or we could find some politicians with some balls that would say this CO2 thing is pure bullshit.
“Who the hell cares”. China doesn’t, India doesn’t, Russia doesn’t and probably every country in Africa and rest of Asia. We are just pissing into wind.
Ditching all the green grift is the easiest thing Trump can do to make the economy soar. Canadians will be left staring wistfully as the American (oil-fueled) tail lights recede in the distance.
The censorship BOT on SDA is working overtime today
// Trump’s team has spent years developing legal and regulatory strategies to bring full executive authority back to the Oval Office //
So not for just a day then.
Dizzy, from what I know now, I’m a strong supporter of the direction the Trump team is taking.
That having been said, the ‘not for just a day’ shot is a good one! I salute you.
Given some of his comments, he still doesn’t understand the limits of executive power.
Doesn’t matter. He’s got the presidency, the senate and the house.
Some things will just take a little more time.
“I’ve got a pen to talk executive actions where congress won’t. Where congress isn’t acting, I’ll act on my own. I have got a pen and I got a phone. And that is all I need.”
– Barack Obama.
Looks like we’re winning and you’re losing.
Let the deportations begin!
S*ck on it, Allah.
unDORK
he still doesn’t understand the limits of executive power.
And you are 10 times stupider than that, so STFU!
Cuba recently achieved net zero emissions a couple times – activists could go live the dream right now!
“Now our own policy-makers must decide what to ask of Canadians in terms of shouldering the costs of climate policies.”
Our policy makers don’t ask – they already know what is best for us so they proceed based on their superior knowledge. Cost is no object.
Yup. They need to ask Canadians, “How much are you willing to pay to POSSIBLY make a 0.0000000003C° difference in the (mythical) Global Average Surface Temperature by 2100?” Oh, I forgot. “…which is already being completely negated by China and India’s increased use of coal.”
Go ahead and ask. We’ll wait.
It’s not their cost, though. They have inflation-linked pensions.
It’s absurd for politicians to have “climate policies”. It’s a make believe “look, we have a reason to do what we do” otherwise they might have to do something useful. And worst of all is the municipal councils that have “climate policies” by which means ward councillors can play god. Very good for the ego but very bad for the city.
The climate is fine. No dollars spent ever did a flicking thing. The problem is that developers built stuff in areas that in known flood paths or fire-prone areas and silted deltas or unsafe cliffs. The climate never changed, but we did.
The only sensible thing that climate man Susuki said was that “BC is full now”. We can not take any more people here.
I can not imagine why someone would buy a home in Deep Cove, BC. It is mountainous and has lots of rain! It has the worst annual rainfall in the lower mainland. Or in Richmond/Delta, built on a flicking delta. My neighbourhood has tall apartment buildings erected on landfill from 1907 – that will work well in an earthquake, I don’t think.