Posted on 03/10/2023 6:27:03 AM PST by Twotone
HOUSTON, Texas — The world will need fossil fuels for decades but they must be paired with technologies that capture their greenhouse gas emissions, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Wednesday.
The Biden administration wants the U.S. to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 to help limit global warming. It is seeking to displace oil, gas, and coal with renewable energy and electric technologies, but forecasts, including those by the Energy Information Administration, indicate prolonged demand for traditional energy sources.
"We know that even the boldest projections for clean energy deployment suggest that, in the middle of this century, we’ll be using abated fossil fuels," Granholm said during remarks at CERAWeek by S&P Global, an annual industry conference in Houston.
"Abated" refers to fossil fuel combustion linked with carbon management technologies, which capture emissions so they can be kept from entering the atmosphere.
"We need both traditional and new energy," added Granholm, who, along with President Joe Biden, has asked the oil and gas sector to increase production to alleviate high energy prices at home and in the larger global energy marketplace.
Her pronouncement comes as many environmental interest groups and some lawmakers in Congress push for policies to block new oil and gas development and related infrastructure to slow climate change.
The administration has supported increased oil and gas production in response to higher prices and the war in Ukraine.
The Inflation Reduction Act, the Democratic energy and healthcare spending law passed in August, strengthened federal tax incentives for carbon capture and storage technologies.
It also included hundreds of billions of dollars in incentives and subsidies for other green energy technologies and environmental programs.
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Nope, wrong again, will be needed much longer than that.
“..Nope, wrong again, will be needed much longer than that....”
^THIS^
They pull these dates out of their sorry gay arses to “kick the can down the road” so that they can gracefully exit without taking the heat from the insane left for “not doing anything”.
Oil and gas products will be needed waaaaayyyyyy longer than these morons will ever be alive.
G1. These darn dimwit Dems are climate change idiots. Many Dems make the dumbest remarks.
EVs, windmills and solar are fads; they’ll be gone in 7-10yrs.
There is no such thing as “fossil fuels”, anymore; it’s PETROLEUM.
2050 eh? That’s just before the oceans flood the coasts and the end of the world.
From the brow of the superbrain...Jennifer Granholm???
They don't care about anything other than using the general population like livestock from "womb to tomb".
Like the monarchs of old, these people are delusional psychopaths, and will use any and every means available to obtain and preserve their power.
Maybe sooner if the left ceases it’s war against nuclear power.
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