New Biden Climate Change Strategy: Don’t Leave Your House

Biden’s “blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization” emphasizes remote work and virtual interactions.

A new Biden administration plan to combat climate change claims that the COVID-19 pandemic was not all bad. “highlighted major opportunities” To reduce travel demand and to lower carbon emissions “remote work and virtual interactions.”

The Plan—which President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency and Energy, Transportation, and Housing departments Released in January—aims to “eliminate nearly all greenhouse gas emissions” By 2050, the transport sector will be largely eliminated through a shift to electric vehicles. However, the plan includes controversial calls to reduce emissions. “commuting miles” Through “an increase in remote work and virtual engagements,” including in education.

“Telework and other components of a digital economy … can improve convenience by reducing travel demand, especially for work commuting,” The plan says so. “The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted major opportunities for telework, with some studies showing the possibility of 10 percent long-term reduction in annual vehicle miles traveled.” The plan continues to identify “remote access to services like health care and education” One of the “key determinants of future travel demand.”

Leading green energy groups are certain to be satisfied by the administration’s COVID inspired call to reduce travel demand. Similar rhetoric has been echoed since the pandemic began. The Rocky Mountain Institute, for instance, will launch its April 2020 program. touted “opportunities to reduce vehicle miles traveled via telework.” The plan has already caused outrage among small-business advocates. They point to the fact the plan could be detrimental to their business. More than 100,000 small business owners The only reason that the Pandemic closed down permanently was because of decreased demand. Alfredo Ortiz (President of Job Creators Network) believes that the same history would be repeated if widespread telework were adopted under the guise of climate change.

“Once again, the Biden administration is blindly pursuing a ‘green’ agenda despite the unintended consequences it poses to the economy and, more specifically, small businesses,” Ortiz stated that Washington Free Beacon. “Small businesses struggled to survive the pandemic and we don’t need to return to a similar environment in which in-person consumer demand is severely compromised.”

Even the most prominent Democrats echo Ortiz’s rhetoric. Just minutes into Muriel Bowser’s third term as Washington, D.C. Mayor, Democrat Muriel Bowser, in early January Pressed the White House Take “decisive action” Federal workers must be allowed to return to their offices. Biden made a March promise that federal workers would return to their offices. “vast majority of federal workers will once again work in person,” He has so far failed Bowser’s warning to listen. According to Kastle System, D.C. had a mere 45 percent office occupancy before Christmas 2013.

Requests for comment from the Transportation and Housing departments were not returned. The emissions plan “will be followed by more detailed sector-specific plans … to realize an improved and sustainable transportation future,” According to the Jan. 10 Energy Department Press release.

The U.S.’s energy consumption has fallen to its lowest level in over a decade. lowest level in decades The pandemic saw a rise in travel, which also resulted in a 10 percent decrease of emissions. Since then, travel is a major part of our lives. “largely returned to pre-pandemic levels,” January’s plan by the Biden administration, and U.S. Carbon Emissions subsequently The number of people who voted for the campaign rose by 3% last year. “The pandemic has shown that rapid change can occur in both total transportation demand and how that demand is met,” The plan notes.

Climate change activists from the top have long compared it to COVID. In August 2020 blog postBill Gates, liberal billionaire Bill Gates, said that climate change was a problem. “could be worse” That could be a pandemic. “people afraid to leave home.”