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How About Democrats Pay KKK Reparations to Black Republicans?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:32 AM PST
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By Larry O'Connor |Townhall.com
Photo Source: AP Photo/File The Democratic Party should pay reparations to
black Republicans who have suffered at the hands of the KKK.Hear me out.
Make no mistake, the Democrats and their allies in the Marxist Black Lives
Matter organization are moving this country toward a "national
conversation" about reparations. Side note: Have you noticed that whenever
we have a race-related "national conversation," it always ends up being
sanctimonious, Marxist tenured professors lecturing the rest of us about
how evil and racist and privileged we are, and if you deny it, it proves
you're racist? And the solution to the evil racism that you exhibit is to
take more of your money and give it to Democrats in government where they
pay for big programs that enrich those tenured professors, make
inner-cities even worse, and then ten years later we are poised for
another "national conversation"? Yeah, well, they're getting us ready for
another one of those "national conversations" and this time it will be
about reparations for slavery. Before that conversation gets driven down
our throats by the Harris-Biden presidential ticket, how about Republicans
get in front of this issue? How about instead of moving toward reparations
for slavery (which has challenges logistically and judicially), we move for
something a little more tangible? I mean, let's face it, it's nearly
impossible to identify who, specifically, would be responsible for paying
these reparations, right? Descendants of the slave owners? OK, try to trace
that out, I suppose. But, logically, their reparation payment should only
go to the descendants of those African-Americans their ancestors owned.
Also, isn't it unjust to punish a person for the sins of their fathers? I
mean, this is a fundamental understanding the Western world has always
embraced. But the Left would have us punish, through taxation, the great,
great, great-grandchildren for slavery. So what do we do? Having the US
government pay the reparations would be even more unjust. It would also tax
black Americans and the descendants of immigrants who arrived on these
shores years after the Civil War. Why should their descendants' money pay
for an evil act that occurred when they were living in another country?
Also, technically speaking, the United States government did not own
slaves, so why should the government pay for the sins of some (a very small
percentage) of her citizens? Meanwhile, there are very real victims still
alive who suffered from systemic and violent racism at the hands of the Ku
Klux Klan (KKK). Many are still alive to tell their stories. Or, their
children are alive and have suffered greatly due to the terror inflicted
upon them by the Klan. The KKK's terror was specifically directed at black
Americans who dared to vote. And, how did they vote? They voted Republican.
Furthermore, the Klan was populated by Democrats. Southern, racist,
segregationist Democrats. And their reign of terror began because they had
to terrify newly freed African-Americans from voting. Because these
Klansmen knew they would vote Republican. How powerful did the Klan's
political clout grow? In 1924, organized Klansmen marched through the
streets of New York and attended the Democratic National Convention that
nominated Woodrow Wilson for the presidency. After winning office, Woodrow
screened the racist ode to the Klan "Birth of a Nation," a film produced by
racist Hollywood producers. It was the first film ever screened at the
White House. Spoiler alert: the film rationalizes and glorifies the rise of
the Klan. From the Wilson presidency, the intertwined narratives of the
Klan and Democratic Party were inseparable. It's no mistake that Exalted
Cyclops of the West Virginia Klan Robert Byrd chose the Dems when he went
into politics. Byrd rose to the level of Majority Leader of the Senate
because his fellow Democrats saw him as a leader and an inspiration. Joe
Biden had nothing but praise for the Klansman after his death. FLASHBACK:
10 years ago today Joe Biden delivered a eulogy for Senate segregationist
and former KKK "Exalted Cyclops" leader Robert Byrd. He called him
a "mentor," a "guide," and a "friend." Byrd once led a KKK chapter with 150
members. Video at: [link removed] In
short: Democrats not only benefited from the rise of the KKK by silencing
Republican votes in the South, but they also welcomed their members into
their ranks and celebrated them. Do you want some reparations? This is a
pretty easy argument to make. The violence of the KKK against black
Republicans was real, historic, well-documented, and recent. And the one
entity that benefited most (if not encouraged it and/or participated in it)
was the Democratic Party, which still exists. Why not go after those deep
pockets?
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_____________________________ RELATED ARTICLE How the Left Hijacked Civil
Rights By Robert L. Woodson Sr. and Joshua Mitchell | The Wall Street
Journal
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr with James Forman of the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee (left) and singer Harry Belafonte, April 30, 1965. -
Photo: Bettmann Archive For centuries black Americans debated how to
overcome racism—but they always emphasized human agency and individual
responsibility. The civil-rights movement, led by the Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr. , helped deliver America from the historic sins of slavery and Jim
Crow by forcing the nation to confront the full humanity of its black
citizens. King’s words and actions glorified America by transfiguring its
racial wound and revealing its redemptive promise. Yet today many black
leaders have lost sight of King altogether and are aiding and abetting the
crucifixion of their own people. Rather than hope, they see despair; rather
than the Easter Sunday of true liberation, they offer the bleak Good Friday
of never-ending misery.

The history of black American responses to slavery and Jim Crow generally
followed three paths. They were hotly debated, but all emphasized human
agency, sought liberation, and rejected despair.

First, there were the recolonization or “back to Africa” movements
championed by the likes of Marcus Garvey. These movements sought an exit
from America.

Second, there were the insurrectionists of the 19th century, who believed
that black Americans should engage in armed rebellion or vocal opposition
so that they might find a home in this country. Here lie Nat Turner and,
later, W.E.B. Du Bois. They wanted to have their resistant voice heard in
America.

Third, there were accommodationist movements of the sort undertaken by
Booker T. Washington, who thought that loyalty to America was the best
course.

Exit, voice, loyalty—however different these strategies were, each supposed
that human agency mattered, that oppression wasn’t destiny. That is why,
even amid great struggle, black Americans responded by building their own
institutions and businesses. Great universities, medical schools, hotels,
restaurants, movie companies and even a flight school sprung up. All of
this was self-financed—and made possible by two-parent families, churches
and other cultural institutions that provided shelter against the outside
storm of racism.

In the 20th century, that same creative conflict between these three
schools of thought reappeared. Debaters included the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the
Black Panther Party and the Republic of New Africa, which sought to
establish a separate black state within our borders as an exit strategy.

King offered an inspiring combination of the strategies of loyalty and
voice. In 1960, when students in Greensboro, N.C., became frustrated with
the slow pace of legal action favored by Thurgood Marshall, King was sent
to discourage them from engaging in civil disobedience. The students told
King to lead, follow or get out of the way. They were determined to
liberate themselves. They understood the difficulties and were undeterred
by the obstacles. Like King, they were willing to persevere toward justice
even when it was inconvenient, and to suffer the consequences of their
actions. Hope, not hopelessness, animated all that they did.

King paid a heavy personal price for his hope that America was redeemable.
Twice his home was bombed; once, his wife and daughter were nearly killed.
Surrounded by hundreds of angry, armed black men after that bombing, he
discouraged retaliatory violence. He was assaulted several times, and
jailed as well, but he remained steadfast in his commitment to nonviolence.
He united black Americans behind the proposition that racism is evil in
itself, not simply because white people visited it upon blacks, and that
all must unite to combat evil. He warned us about the self-destructive path
of violence, not only for blacks but for the whole nation.

One of the original arguments to justify slavery was that blacks were
morally inferior and thus incapable of self-government. John C. Calhoun
famously asserted: “There is no instance of any civilized colored race of
any shade being found equal to the establishment and maintenance of free
government.” Black efforts at self-liberation in the 19th and 20th
centuries were based on the opposite assumption.

Today many black leaders defer to angry white progressives who make the
same arguments about blacks’ lack of moral agency, reject the country’s
founding principles, and seek to undermine its institutions. For months,
the radical left has been exploiting the country’s genuine concern for
fairness to keep blacks in a constant state of agitation, anger and
grievance, urging them toward behavior that lives down to the slanderous
stereotypes of white supremacists. The leaders of these movements insist
that every inequity suffered by blacks is caused by institutional and
structural racism, that they have no power to liberate themselves, and that
they will remain oppressed until white people change. Even to raise the
issue of what role self-determination plays for blacks earns you the label
of “racist.”

Civil-rights organizations and their leadership, as well as the
Congressional Black Caucus, need to wake up before it’s too late. A faction
of black leaders has been silent about, or complicit in, the takeover of
the civil-rights movement by the radical left. The effect of this is not to
glorify black achievement but to crucify low-income blacks, who are
represented in national media outlets by their worst-behaved members, and
bear the brunt of the attacks by the woke radical left on the cities where
they live.

“Justice” for black America cannot be achieved by framing it solely through
the distorted lens of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others
in fatal police encounters. For every unarmed black American killed by the
police, hundreds are killed in neighborhood homicides.

Those who call for the defunding of police departments, such as leaders of
the official Black Lives Matter organization, are silent about this
inconvenient truth. They have a narrative and cannot let the facts get in
the way. Their story is that the whole of American history is stained and
the whole of America must be overthrown. When citizens declare that they
support Black Lives Matter, do they share its opposition to the nuclear
family, its objective of abolishing the police, and its view that the
Christian cross is a symbol of white supremacy? These positions of the
organization—language that has largely been scrubbed from its website—in no
way improve the lives of black Americans. They give up on black America and
encourage its needless suffering.

Like all Americans, blacks have triumphed over their circumstances only
when they have adopted bourgeois virtues such as hard work, respect for
learning, self-discipline, faith and personal responsibility. In the 19th
century, Frederick Douglass found reading to be the key to his own personal
liberation amid slavery, and he understood that whites deliberately
withheld literacy from blacks precisely because it was so valuable.
Bourgeois values drove blacks to build the powerful religious, fraternal,
and other voluntary associations that helped them thrive in the worst days
of Jim Crow and cultivated the essential virtues in the next generation.

There would have been no civil-rights movement without this. But radical
progressives now insist that such virtues are the legacy of white
supremacy, colonialist values that reflect the continuing bondage of blacks
to oppressive Western culture. The only “authentic” expression of blackness
in America, they claim, is the opposite of bourgeois self-restraint and
discipline—indulging in the passions of the moment, whether anarchic
rioting, insulting teachers or other unsalutary forms of expression. The
radical left—disdaining exhortations toward work, family and faith as
“respectability politics”—argues that blacks should feel free to indulge
their “true” nature, echoing the age-old white-supremacist notion that said
nature is violent, lascivious and incapable of self-restraint.

The slave masters’ trick of old was to dissuade blacks from adopting
bourgeois values precisely so they could be kept in servitude. Marriage was
forbidden and families were split apart. Douglass observed that slaves were
encouraged to indulge in drink and debauchery during the holidays so they
would be “led to think that there was little to choose between liberty and
slavery. We felt, and very properly too, that we had almost as well be
slaves to man as to rum. So, when the holidays ended, we staggered up from
the filth of our wallowing, took a long breath, and marched to the
field—feeling, upon the whole, rather glad to go, from what our master had
deceived us into a belief was freedom, back to the arms of slavery.”

But there were always those who saw through the trick and used the holidays
to hunt, make items for sale, visit distant family members, and hire out
their own labor. Some of these were even able—eventually—to purchase their
freedom.

Tellingly, leftist elites teach their own children the values of working
and studying hard even as they encourage behavior among blacks that will
make sure they remain uncompetitive but “authentic.” By the time young
blacks today discover, as did the slaves of Douglass’s time, that freedom
understood as “do whatever you feel like” is no way to build a worthwhile
life, it will be too late. The fruits of the civil-rights movement’s hard
labor—teaching the young to be so self-disciplined that they were able to
resist responding in kind to hatred and abuse from whites—will have been
lost.

We must turn away from the present course, which preaches despair rather
than hope. Black achievement must be glorified. The crucifixion of black
America by the radical left must halt. There is a grander, more fruitful
future for us all.

Mr. Woodson, a veteran of the civil-rights movement, is founder and
president of the Woodson Center and author, most recently, of “Lessons From
the Least of These: The Woodson Principles.” Mr. Mitchell is a Washington
Fellow at the Claremont Center for the American Way of Life and author of
“American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time.”

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EDITOR’S
NOTE: For additional information about civil rights history, see
the posting on this blog ”Republicans and Democrats Did Not Switch Sides On
Racism” at:
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Rush Speaks

Posted: 17 Feb 2021 02:43 PM PST
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“My days on earth are numbered; But before I fade away, there is
something important I need to say. It may not be important to anyone else;
but it's important to me. Win, lose or fraud. President Trump, I just want
to say thank you for the last four years. Thank you for making it cool to
be an American again. Thank you for showing us that we don’t need to be
under China’s thumb anymore economically, or any other way. Thank you for
one of the strongest economies we’ve ever experienced in my lifetime. Thank
you for all you have done for the minority communities, and the outstanding
decrease in the unemployment rate you had. Thank you for making it feel
good to love our country and to be a proud patriot again. Thank you for
supporting our Nation's flag and the men and women who fought for the
freedom that stands behind that flag. Thank you for supporting our nation's
law enforcement organizations, and understanding how difficult their job
really is. Thank you for quelling the flood of illegal immigration, and
bringing to justice the thousands of criminals that flood brought us. Thank
you for giving corporations a reason to come back to America to make our
own products and put Americans back to work. Thank you for bringing our
troops home from endless deployments that presented us with little more
than body bags; and for your commitment to strengthen our military. Thank
you for operation warp speed and keeping your promise to bringing the Covid
19 vaccine to us in less than a year. Thank you for your never-ending
attempts at bringing peace to the Middle East and your support for Israel.
Thank you for your Tax relief, and thank you for our energy independence.
Most of all though...THANK YOU for taking a damn rotten job that you never
had to take!! Thank you for caring enough for this country to want to try
and make a difference. Thank you for showing America how little Career
Politicians actually work for their constituents; and for showing us how
much those politicians despise you for showing America how easy it is to
build a great nation, rather than rape her to line their own pockets and
stock portfolios.
Thank you for allowing us to experience a President that wasn’t a lifelong
politician, but a lifelong American.
THANK YOU MR PRESIDENT... YOU DID YOUR BEST…"




________________ RELATED STORY President Donald Trump Makes A Statement
Following the Death of Rush Limbaugh
President Donald Trump issued statement on Wednesday, saying, "The great
Rush Limbaugh has passed away to a better place, free from physical pain
and hostility."
"His honor, courage, strength, and loyalty will never be replaced a
patriot, a defender of liberty and someone who believed in all of the
greatness our country stands for. "Rush was a friend to myself and millions
of Americans — a guiding light with the ability to see the truth and paint
vivid pictures over the airwaves," Trump continued. "Melania and I express
our deepest condolences to his wonderful wife, Kathryn, his family, and all
of his dedicated fans. He will be missed greatly." Calling into Fox News on
Wednesday, Trump said he last spoke with Limbaugh three or four days
ago. "He was very, very sick … He was fighting until the very end. He was a
fighter," Trump said.

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Rush Limbaugh's wife, Kathryn, announces his death on radio show

Posted: 17 Feb 2021 12:38 PM PST
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By Tyler Olson | Fox News
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh gestures as he makes remarks at the
National Association of Broadcasters October 2, 2003 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images) - Limbaugh was
known as the conservative talk radio pioneer. Kathryn Limbaugh says Rush
will 'forever be the greatest of all time' in a message to listeners.
Kathryn Limbaugh, the wife of conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh,
announced his death Wednesday on his radio show to his millions of
listeners.
Limbaugh died Wednesday at 70 years old from complications of lung cancer.
He first learned of his cancer diagnosis in Jan. 2020. Former President
Donald Trump awarded the radio host the Presidential Medal of Freedom
shortly thereafter during his State of the Union Address. "I, like you,
very much wish Rush was behind this golden microphone right now welcoming
you to another exceptional three hours of broadcasting," Limbaugh's wife,
Kathryn, said on his show Wednesday. "For over 32 years, Rush has cherished
you, his loyal audience, and always looked forward to every single show. It
is with profound sadness I must share with you directly that our beloved
Rush, my wonderful husband, passed away this morning due to complications
from lung cancer." "As so many of you know, losing a loved one is terribly
difficult. Even more so when that loved one is larger than life. Rush will
forever be the greatest of all time," she continued. "Rush was an
extraordinary man. A gentle giant. Brilliant, quick-witted, genuinely kind,
extremely generous, passionate, courageous, and the hardest-working person
I know."
Limbaugh single-handedly revolutionized the medium of talk radio, turning
it into fertile ground for conservative opinion-makers who followed him. He
commanded a daily audience of millions, which he last addressed on Feb. 2.
In December, Limbaugh opened up his final broadcast of 2020 by thanking his
listeners and supporters for supporting him throughout his career and his
health struggle. "My point in all of this today is gratitude," he said at
the time. "My point in all of this is to say thanks and tell everybody
involved how much I love you from the bottom of a sizable and growing and
still-beating heart." Limbaugh was known for his bellicose and blustering
on-air persona, but he's been widely praised for his kindness to others
when not behind a microphone, including by his wife Wednesday "Despite
being one of the most recognized, powerful people in the world, Rush never
let the success change his core or beliefs," Kathryn Limbaugh said. "He was
polite and respectful to everyone he met. Even most recently when he was
not feeling well in the hospital, he was so appreciative to every single
doctor and nurse and custodian." Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this
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The Political Making of a Texas Power Outage

Posted: 17 Feb 2021 09:42 AM PST
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By The Editorial Board | The Wall Street Journal
Electric Utility trucks are parked in front of the Oncor facility in
preparation of power outages due to weather, Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 16. -
PHOTO: RALPH LAUER/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK How bad energy policy led to rolling
blackouts in the freezing Lone Star State. Why are millions of Americans in
the nation’s most energy-rich state without power and heat for days amid
extreme winter weather? “The people who have fallen short with regard to
the power are the private power generation companies,” Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott explained. Ah, yes, blame private power companies . . . that are
regulated by government. The Republican sounds like California’s Democratic
Governor Gavin Newsom, who lambasted private utilities for rolling
blackouts during a heat wave last summer. Power grids should be able to
withstand extreme weather. But in both these bellwether states, state and
federal energy policies have created market distortions and reduced grid
reliability. Mr. Abbott blamed his state’s extensive power outages on
generators freezing early Monday morning, noting “this includes the natural
gas & coal generators.” But frigid temperatures and icy conditions have
descended on most of the country. Why couldn’t Texas handle them while
other states did? The problem is Texas’s overreliance on wind power that
has left the grid more vulnerable to bad weather. Half of wind turbines
froze last week, causing wind’s share of electricity to plunge to 8% from
42%. Power prices in the wholesale market spiked, and grid regulators on
Friday warned of rolling blackouts. Natural gas and coal generators ramped
up to cover the supply gap but couldn’t meet the surging demand for
electricity—which half of households rely on for heating—even as many
families powered up their gas furnaces. Then some gas wells and pipelines
froze. In short, there wasn’t sufficient baseload power from coal and
nuclear to support the grid. Baseload power is needed to stabilize grid
frequency amid changes in demand and supply. When there’s not enough
baseload power, the grid gets unbalanced and power sources can fail. The
more the grid relies on intermittent renewables like wind and solar, the
more baseload power is needed to back them up. But politicians don’t care
about grid reliability until the power goes out. And for three decades
politicians from both parties have pushed subsidies for renewables that
have made the grid less stable. Start with the 1992 Energy Policy Act
signed by George H.W. Bush, which created a production tax credit to boost
the infant wind industry. Generators collect up to $25 per megawatt hour of
power they produce regardless of market demand. The credit was supposed to
expire in 1999, but nothing lasts longer than a temporary government
program, as Ronald Reagan once quipped. The renewables lobby found GOP
allies in windy states like Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa. Former Enron CEO Ken
Lay, who had made a big bet on wind, begged then Texas Gov. George W. Bush
in 1998 to lobby Congress to extend the credit for five years. Congress has
since extended it more than a dozen times, most recently in December. Wind
producers persuaded former Gov. Rick Perry to back a $5 billion network of
transmission lines to connect turbines in western Texas to cities. This
enabled them to build more turbines—and collect more tax credits. Because
the Texas grid is often oversupplied, wind producers sometimes pay to
off-load their power, though they still turn a profit with the tax credits.
Coal and nuclear are more strictly regulated and can’t compete, and many
coal plants have shut down in Texas and elsewhere. Over the last decade
about 100 gigawatts of coal power nationwide has been retired—enough to
power 60 million homes. Many nuclear plants are scheduled to shut down,
including large reactors in New York and Illinois this year. Renewables and
natural gas are expected to substitute, but Texas is showing their
limitations. In the Lone Star State, bad weather has constrained the supply
of gas, but government policies do the same in other states. New York Gov.
Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey’s Phil Murphy have blocked pipelines to deliver
shale gas from Pennsylvania to the Northeast. Their pipeline blockade has
driven up the cost of electricity. The average retail price of power is
about 50% higher in New Jersey and New York than in Pennsylvania. They and
other governors have also poured subsidies into wind and solar, though
neither can provide reliable power in frosty weather. Many states also have
renewable mandates that will force more fossil-fuel generators to shut
down. New York has required that renewables account for 70% of state power
by 2030. Then layer on Democratic policies at the federal level that limit
fossil-fuel production and distribution. The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission is supposed to ensure grid reliability, but under Barack Obama
it promoted renewables over reliability. Democrats opposed efforts by Trump
appointees to mitigate market distortions caused by state renewable
subsidies and mandates that jeopardized the grid. On present trend, this
week’s Texas fiasco is coming soon to a cold winter or hot summer near you.
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__________________ RELATED ARTICLE A Deep Green Freeze By The Editorial
Board | The Wall Street Journal
Oil rigs are seen in a icy landscape near Interstate 20 in Odessa,Texas,
Feb. 12. - PHOTO: JACOB FORD/ASSOCIATED PRESS Power shortages show the
folly of eliminating natural gas—and coal. Gas and power prices have spiked
across the central U.S. while Texas regulators ordered rolling blackouts
Monday as an Arctic blast has frozen wind turbines. Herein is the paradox
of the left’s climate agenda: The less we use fossil fuels, the more we
need them. A mix of ice and snow swept across the country this weekend as
temperatures plunged below zero in the upper Midwest and into the teens in
Houston. Cold snaps happen—the U.S. also experienced a Polar Vortex in
2019—as do heat waves. Yet the power grid is becoming less reliable due to
growing reliance on wind and solar, which can’t provide power 24 hours a
day, seven days a week. While Texas is normally awash in gas and oil, the
Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which oversees the state’s wholesale
power market, urged residents this weekend to conserve power to avoid power
outages. Regulators rationed gas for commercial and industrial uses to
ensure fuel for power plants and household heating. Texas’s energy
emergency could last all week as the weather is forecast to remain frigid.
“My understanding is, the wind turbines are all frozen,” Public Utility
Commission Chairman DeAnn Walker said Friday. “We are working already to
try and ensure we have enough power but it’s taken a lot of coordination.”
Blame a perfect storm of bad government policies, timing and weather. Coal
and nuclear are the most reliable sources of power. But competition from
heavily subsidized wind power and inexpensive natural gas, combined with
stricter emissions regulation, has caused coal’s share of Texas’s
electricity to plunge by more than half in a decade to 18%. Wind’s share
has tripled to about 25% since 2010 and accounted for 42% of power last
week before the freeze set in. About half of Texans rely on electric pumps
for heating, which liberals want to mandate everywhere. But the pumps use a
lot of power in frigid weather. So while wind turbines were freezing,
demand for power was surging. Gas-fired power plants ramped up, but the
Arctic freeze increased demand for gas across the country. Producers
couldn’t easily increase supply since a third of rigs across the country
were taken out of production during the pandemic amid lower energy demand.
Some gas wells and pipelines in Texas and Oklahoma also shut down in frosty
conditions. Enormous new demand coupled with constrained supply caused
natural gas spot prices to spike to nearly $600 per million British thermal
units in the central U.S. from about $3 a couple weeks ago. Future
wholesale power prices in Texas for early this week soared to $9,000 per
megawatt hour from a seasonal average of $25. Prices jumped in the Midwest
too, though less dramatically because there are more coal and nuclear
plants. Illinois and Michigan have more gas storage than Texas, which
exports much of its shale gas to other states and, increasingly, around the
world in liquefied form. Europe and Asia are also importing more fossil
fuels for heat and power this winter. U.S. LNG exports increased 25%
year-over-year in December while prices tripled in northern Asian spot
markets and doubled in Europe. Germany’s public broadcasting recently
reported that “Germany’s green energies strained by winter.” The report
noted that power is “currently coming mainly from coal, and the power
plants in Lausitz” are now “running at full capacity.” Coal still accounts
for 60% of China’s energy, and imports tripled in December. China has some
250 gigawatts of coal-fired plants under development, enough to power all
of Germany. Unlike Democrats in the U.S., Chinese leaders understand that
fossil fuels are needed to support intermittent renewables. “Power
shortages and incredibly high spot gas prices this winter are reminding
governments, businesses and consumers of the importance of coal,” a Wood
Mackenzie consultant told Reuters recently. California progressives long
ago banished coal. But a heat wave last summer strained the state’s power
grid as wind flagged and solar ebbed in the evenings. After imposing
rolling blackouts, grid regulators resorted to importing coal power from
Utah and running diesel emergency generators. Liberals claim that prices of
renewables and fossil fuels are now comparable, which may be true due to
subsidies, but they are no free lunch, as this week’s energy emergency
shows. The Biden Administration’s plan to banish fossil fuels is a greater
existential threat to Americans than climate change.
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