Biden Administration Shackles Taxpayers in Carbon-capture Scheme
Billions of our tax dollars are funding carbon dioxide (CO2) harvesting across the United States. Experts say the senseless ventures have no impact on global temperatures yet are helping to fuel the energy crisis and raise already-skyrocketing prices you pay for just about everything.
CO2 — a simple molecule that is a crucial plant food and helps make life on earth possible — has been demonized since 2007, when the U.S. Supreme Court irrationally labeled this important atmospheric gas as an “air pollutant” and granted regulatory free rein to the Environmental Protection Agency. Now, in some apparently warped spirit of Dr. Seuss, the Biden administration wants to build huge machines that suck CO2 directly from the sky.
Carbon-capture technology has been around for decades, trapping CO2 as it is released from refineries, manufacturing facilities, and power plants. The process is known as carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), or carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). These methods either store the gas underground or put it to various uses such as producing high-value chemicals or extracting more petroleum from otherwise depleted oil wells. The Obama administration significantly ramped up requirements for power plants to implement inefficient CCS measures, which were lifted temporarily during Trump’s White House tenure.
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