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 Democrats are making one insane argument after another to push their green agenda.The international Left has gone all-in on the radical environmentalist movement. And the Democrat Party has been particularly bad on the issue in the United States. For at least 30 years, the radical environmentalist movement has been a Trojan horse for socialism.

Leftists have openly strategized about using care for “the planet” in order to justify all sorts of regulations that take control of the economy. And Democrats really give up the game when they use climate fear-mongering to push their other priorities.

        For example, environmental leftists in California are claiming that diesel trucks are now racist. Townhall reported that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) claimed that “the state is considering new regulations to ban the sale of all diesel semi-trucks by 2040 to fight climate change and to amend a history of ‘racist’ practice. CARB believes that the large freight trucks should be banned because the diesel emissions that are excreted from them ‘disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities due to racist zoning policies.’”

        This is truly absurd and is indicative of how Democrats cynically use race in order to guilt people into adopting bad policy. There is also zero consideration to the economic costs associated with such a ridiculous policy.

“Racist” trucks, roads, and climate “emergency” solved in one government program

         Regardless of Democrats’ hopes and dreams about green technology, it is nowhere near efficient enough to service the needs of 330 million Americans, let alone a planet of 7 billion. CARB said in a statement, “Decades of racist and classist practices, including red-lining and siting decisions, have concentrated heavy-duty vehicle and freight activities in these communities, with concomitant disproportionate pollution burdens…CARB has legal and moral obligations to lessen these burdens…Black and Latino populations experiencing significantly greater air pollution impacts than white populations…[C]ommunities in and around ports move much of the nation’s freight, and so experience pollution on a national scale in their neighborhoods.”

        Warehouses and heavy freight are the biggest emitters of carbon, and for good reason. They require a lot of energy to function, and fossil fuels are by far the cheapest and most efficient form of energy. Trying to handle logistics for the entire state of California without diesel trucks would be a nightmare that would destroy supply chains, and cause prices to go even further through the roof. But radical leftists don’t care about such things. They’re too busy creating a fake reality that could never exist."     Pete Buttigieg went through the roof when one agency snatched the rug from under his “racist” roads ploy - Blue State Blues News

Typical hypocritical Democrat telling us that we cannot do what they can do. Arrogance, self-righteousness and smugness defines these awful fake human beings. Quote: "Tim Ryan Says Americans Need To Give Up Gas Cars as He Drives Around Ohio in Gas Guzzlers. Rep. Tim Ryan (D., Ohio) says the United States is ready to ban gas cars, arguing in 2019 that socialist Bernie Sanders's plan to ban gas vehicles wasn't ambitious enough. On the Senate campaign trail, Ryan is sticking to gas guzzlers.

Ryan's first Senate campaign ad features him riding around with his son in a 2020 GMC Yukon, which gets roughly 14 to 15 miles per gallon around town. When leaving a campaign stop in Zanesville, Ohio, last month, Ryan boarded a 15-mile-per-gallon Chevrolet Tahoe. 

        Sometimes Ryan prefers his comparatively eco-friendly 2020 GMC Sierra, a truck, which gets around 23 miles per gallon. GMC does make an electric truck, the Hummer EV, which can get around 350 miles on a single battery charge, but it will set consumers back nearly $110,000. "Tim loves his UAW-built American-made Tahoe," Ryan campaign spokeswoman Izzi Levy told the Washington Free Beacon, "and wouldn't trade it for anything—not even the $70,000 BMW that chauffeurs J.D. Vance around Ohio."

         The debate over how much the United States should embrace electric cars has been a flashpoint in Ohio's Senate race, in which Ryan is facing off against Republican J.D. Vance. Although Ryan is a rubber stamp for President Joe Biden's green agenda, which has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into renewable energy initiatives, he has remained mum on how much the federal government should be regulating what cars Americans drive.

         "When Tim Ryan ran for president, he fully embraced banning gas-powered vehicles and said that Bernie Sanders's climate change plan didn’t go far enough," a spokesman for the Vance campaign told the Free Beacon. "Now that he is running for Senate in Ohio, he's doing everything he can to run away from those radical, far-left positions. Simply put, Tim Ryan will say whatever it takes to get elected and then sell out working-class Ohioans at the first chance he gets."

Ryan, who votes 100 percent of the time with President Joe Biden, has championed the Democratic Party's green push. A campaign spokeswoman told a local outlet earlier this month that the "auto industry is quickly moving toward electric vehicles." After Ryan voted for Biden's infrastructure bill in February, the congressman's office released a statement applauding provisions for, among other things, an "equitable network of chargers" for electric cars.

That money for green infrastructure is not much immediate help for Ohio voters. In the last week alone, gas prices there have spiked 10 cents per gallon, according to AAA.

          As Ryan can testify, current electric vehicle models also do not offer enough space for large families—or campaign staff. Ryan was spotted last month exiting a gas-powered Forest River Forester RV in Zanesville with his family.

Upon arriving at a fundraiser earlier this month with Paul Simon in Gahanna, Ohio, Ryan exited a Prevost H3-45 passenger bus. The miles per gallon? Seven to eight, according to an owners' forum. Ryan will face off against Vance in November for the Senate seat occupied by retiring Republican Rob Portman. A RealClearPolitics average of recent polls finds Vance leading by over 1 point. The site rates the race as "Leans GOP."     Tim Ryan Says Americans Need To Give Up Gas Cars as He Drives Around Ohio in Gas Guzzlers (freebeacon.com)