Biden Energy Dept. Giving $6 Billion for Projects Targeting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Rhetorical question: Why are WE subsidizing these projects?! Make it stop!
President Joe Biden’s Energy Department announced $6 billion for 33 projects in 20 states to combat those evil greenhouse gases and ozone layer killer carbons.
Six. Billion. Dollars. The projects sound great if the companies can pull it off.
But why are WE subsidizing the projects?! Make it stop.
The administration boasted that the money would support jobs. But not just any jobs. Good-paying union jobs.
It makes sense since the projects will “decarbonize energy-intensive industries, reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions…revitalize industrial communities, and strengthen the nation’s manufacturing competitiveness.”
“Spurring on the next generation of decarbonization technologies in key industries like steel, paper, concrete, and glass will keep America the most competitive nation on Earth,” stated U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “Thanks to President Biden’s industrial strategy, DOE is making the largest investment in industrial decarbonization in the history of the United States. These investments will slash emissions from these difficult-to-decarbonize sectors and ensure American businesses and American workers remain at the forefront of the global economy.”
The *evil* industries Biden plans to save us from:
- Chemicals and refining
- Cement and concrete
- Iron and steel
- Aluminum and metals
- Food and beverage
- Glass
- Process heat
- Pulp and paper
I see familiar companies around Houston.
The administration awarded ExxonMobil in Baytown, TX, $331.9 million for the Baytown Olefins Plant Carbon Reduction project. The DoE hopes the project will “enable the use of hydrogen in place of natural gas across high heat-fired equipment using new burner technologies for ethylene production” at the plant.
“The equipment modifications aim to enable the use of up to 95% clean hydrogen fuel,” according to the project description. “When fully implemented, the modifications would expect to avoid 2.5 million metric tons of carbon emissions per year—equal to more than 50% of the plant’s total emissions—and would reduce criteria air pollutants.”
The Dow Chemical Company’s Novel CO2 Utilization for Electric Vehicle Battery Chemical Production will get $95 million. It’s located on the Gulf Coast. I know one refinery is located in Houston.
Anyway, Dow wants to build a facility on the Gulf Coast that will “capture and utilize approximately 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year to produce essential components of electrolyte solutions needed for domestic lithium-ion batteries.”
I asked a chemical engineer about these two projects. He said the hydrogen project by ExxonMobile is legit. But that natural gas won’t just go away. ExxonMobile will likely sell it off to a company that will burn it up.
He is kind of iffy on the carbon dioxide project. It can work but doesn’t know if it would make a difference or become profitable. If it’s not profitable then why would a company continue the process?
So why are we subsidizing these projects? The chemical engineer told me these companies are trying something new. With all the money from the government, it’s likely the company won’t own the technology (I need to look that up to make sure), so it could be used elsewhere.
But then again, we all know they are forcing us to subsidize it to take away our freedom and choice. We all have to drive those electric vehicles in a few years!
Unilever gets $20.9 million to decarbonize ice cream manufacturing in Tennessee, Missouri, and Vermont. That includes Ben & Jerry’s:
The Decarbonization of Unilever Ice Cream Manufacturing project, led by Unilever, plans to replace natural gas boilers with electric boilers and industrial heat pumps using waste heat recovery across four ice cream manufacturing facilities in Tennessee, Missouri, and Vermont. This project would reduce emissions associated with the production of Ben & Jerry’s, Breyers, Klondike, Magnum, Popsicle, Talenti, and other packaged ice cream and frozen novelty products.
But I thought Unilever unloaded its ice cream division?
$170.9 million will go to Kraft Heinz for its Delicious Decarbonization Through Integrated Electrification and Energy Storage project.
The project occurs in Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, New York, Minnesota, Iowa, and Virginia.
The project aims “to upgrade, electrify, and decarbonize its process heat at 10 facilities by applying a range of technologies including heat pumps, electric heaters, and electric boilers in combination with biogas boilers, solar thermal, solar photovoltaic, and thermal energy storage.”
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Going broke while doing dumb things.
Accelerated the process.
There is a good movie on you tube and destroys all the data of the last few decades. We actually need more CO2, not less.
Movie: Climate, The Movie
might desire to google before going to you tube as they are not recognizing it, as usual.
Its a shit film, its arguments have long been debunked.
America’s DUMBEST cabinet secretary.
I should downvote your comment.
It’s not that she isn’t dumb. She is, in fact, an idiot.
It’s that she has so much competition for the claim of dumbest.
“Rhetorical question: Why are WE subsidizing these projects?”
1. We have money to burn
2. We enjoy flushing money down the toilet
3. Throwing money away is a lot of fun
4. Stupid azz people are running the government
5. The money is actually going into someone’s pocket
#1 is NOT true
We’re broke and and they are throwing the kitchen sink at us to cripple President Trump and us.
Or, collectively, the Republicans have no balls.
The GOP gives invertebrates a bad name.
By all means fire away but let’s direct that fire onto those individuals responsible. We gotta be willing to look at the Senators and member of HoR that represent us in DC and hold THEM accountable.
Blaming politicians as group for spending taxpayer dollars on questionable to stupid things seems redundant and frankly unproductive. That’s what politicians do.
It is up to each of us in our Congressional District and State to hold to account the politicians we are responsible for. In the latest budget deal not one GoP member of the Alabama Congressional delegation from HoR or Senate voted in favor; ALL voted NO. If your Congressional delegation didn’t do the same ….you have more work to do to either make them afraid of the electoral consequences or to replace them.
“industrial decarbonization” equals national destabilization.
I think Democrats have been wargaming this kind of thing for years. If they run the industrial component, the financial component will follow. They want it all and as a bonus for them, only token opposition from a splintered and broken Republican party.
But President Trump couldn’t have $5 billion to finish the wall?
How are the Republicans not stopping this crap
Oh, they’re in on it
I’m ready to plant my carbon footprint where photosynthesis does not occur.
But composting does!
That woman does not do the number 2.
Biden and leftists want to regulate the US industrial base out of existence, and replace it with imports from lesser developed countries like mexico and china with less regulation. It will result in the accelerating of the hollowing out to the american industrial base, while global greenhouse gas emissions won’t be reduced. Net result, fewer american jobs, more pollution.
The Marxists are heavy pushers of de-growth strategies. It’s a key component of any & all “green new deals,” and it’s all part of their agenda.
Circling the green drain…
Maybe they bought some DJT stock this am
It’s went to 16,000 a share
From $66 dollars to 16,000 a share
Congrats to all
Ok, lol I was just kidding
When the country has debt they shouldn’t be spending money on anything, let alone this nonsense.
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They want to kill us all.
Granholm is stupidly inept going back to her MI governor days.
Energy Barbie throws billions of dollars down a limitless rabbit hole, never to be seen again (exception campaigns and kickbacks)