President Joe Biden is steering U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) investments and inducements into “green energies” to meet his goals of a 100-percent “clean electricity grid” by 2035 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Much of the DOE’s $52 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request implements or enhances carbon-free energy development funded through programs established in 2021’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and 2022’s $437 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
The proposed budget and landmark bills, adopted when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress during Biden’s first two years in office, flatten allocations for oil and gas infrastructure and permitting while promoting “renewable energies” such as solar, wind, hydroelectricity, hydrogen, geothermal, and biomass….