World Economic Forum Calls for Higher Gas Price to Safeguard 'Democracy'

Yea, you read that correctly. The WEF has now declared that in order to preserve "Democracy" Fuel and energy prices should be higher. It's a complicated read and somewhat disingenuous in its presentation but basically they are calling for an end to any and all tax credits for oil, gas and coal production along with higher taxes. This isn't new; basically this is the same idea as "right" pricing fossil fuels based upon their carbon content.

www.weforum.org...

First, leading democracies should agree to end the underpricing of fossil fuels, which is the principal factor preventing a clean energy transition. The underpricing associated with producing and burning coal, oil and gas amounted to $5.9 trillion in economic costs in 2020. Nearly a quarter of these losses – $1.45 trillion – occurred in 48 major and smaller democracies.

The leading democracies of the G20 should collectively commit to phasing out cost and tax breaks for the production and consumption of fossil fuels. They should also phase in more efficient pricing of fossil fuels through taxes or tradable permits to cover the costs of local air pollution, global warming, and other economic damages.

There are 3 more provisions you can read about at the link, all of which would severely increase the price of fossil fuels across the board. They justify this with this statement.

By delaying a clean energy transition, leading democracies are making their economies more vulnerable through continued reliance on fossil fuels. Collectively acting to foster a green transition is not only good for the climate but also critical for protecting democracy.

A key point in this of course is that fossil fuels are presently "underpriced". Of course, US consumers are presently paying the "market" price for these fuels. Apparently the "market price" is too low for the WEF.

My question is, how long, weeks, days, months, before we see the Biden administration take regulatory behavior to comply with this WEF edict? How about an Executive Order?

I would guess that these people are leading by example and not using fossil fuels in the cars or planes.

"Clean" energy is an oxymoron, like mostly peaceful riots.
Poop comes in the color green too.

a reply to: TonyS

Don't think the WEF give a toss about democracy Tony.

That's why they themselves are 'unelected' and 'unaccountable'.

For what it's worth there's an old VHS video here where the WEF is being discussed in relation to 'the controlled demolition of first world economies'.

At the current rate of consumption, the world's oil supply (literally the estimated amount of oil in planet earth) will be exhausted in 40 years.

I think that's a pretty good reason to ween off of oil, regardless of where anyone stands politically and regardless of clean energy being a liberal "agenda".

originally posted by: Kocag
I would guess that these people are leading by example and not using fossil fuels in the cars or planes.

Yeah, they fly private jets around everywhere and have the largest carbon foot prints in the world using copious amounts of fossil fuels.

originally posted by: karl 12
a reply to: TonyS

Don't think the WEF give a toss about democracy Tony.

That's why they themselves are 'unelected' and 'unaccountable'.

For what it's worth there's an old VHS video here where the WEF is being discussed in relation to 'the controlled demolition of first world economies'.

Which is what the great reset is, controlled demolition of first world countries to 3rd world ones.


Speaking of controlled demolition, Klaus Schwab who doesn't live in the US nor ever has was conveniently seated in a restaurant with a perfect view of the 911 WTC collapse on the day it happened.

a reply to: TonyS
Oh
So they were in on the dnc plan?

originally posted by: shooterbrody
a reply to: TonyS
Oh
So they were in on the dnc plan?

Other way around. The DNC is implementing their plan.

This is the worst kept secret known to mankind.

The Reset Engineers have been doing everything in their power to make energy more expensive since at least the early 2000's.

The WEF should, in the context of U.S. jurisdiction, be labeled a terrorist organization and dealt with appropriately.

I am not interested in the WEF crusades to rob Peter (us) to pay Paul (not us).

We (the U.S. collectively) had nothing to do with other regions of the planet procreating out of control and exponentially growing their population.

We didn't force their governmental systems to squander resources, abscond with public money, or defraud their constituents.

We didn't force them to poison water supplies, improperly manage agriculture and damage the ecosystem.

We are not the driving force behind climate change no matter what, NO MATTER WHAT, you are indoctrinated with. Research the change in atmospheric composition in the past geological eras, specifically the Carboniferous Period, the time of the most Oxygen-rich atmosphere in Earth's history (peaked at 35%), after which the level of Oxygen in the air dramatically dropped to current levels (21% or so). But but BUT...how could the balance of Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide have fluctuated in Earth's atmosphere so greatly, 300 million years before man existed? o_O.

So are you telling me that, despite being a good citizen, only driving a Prius, eating bugs instead of meat, and submitting to rolling power blackouts....the Earth might simply evolve into a totally different air composition 100 or 1000 years from now...despite my best efforts, no matter how "Green" I become?

Oh. So....what's the point of the WEF "Green All the Things" crusade again?

These WEF people are snake oil vendors, grifters, seeking to set up a worldwide socialist Utopia, with the set of "some animals are more equal than others" comprised of them and their ilk.

The WEF has no place, no charter, no authority, and no justification for influencing anything done here in the U.S.

People will either recognize this, respond accordingly, or they will find (or their descendants will find) themselves one day car pooling in cramped, rented EVs, living in rented property only, eating bugs, rationing power, and generally "owning nothing and loving it".

I think the world would be a better place if gas was 20 bucks a gallon, that way people like me who could afford it would have open roads to drive on. We could go back to being called Honkies as we drive past and honk at all the people who can not afford it no more.

originally posted by: SleeperHasAwakened


The Reset Engineers have been doing everything in their power to make energy more expensive since at least the early 2000's.

Have you ever read the book, confessions of an economic hitman? One part talks about going into an under develop country and paying off a few leaders and then build a damn, or setup power plants. They then supply electricity to the masses at a cost most could hardly pay. People would then lose their lands and the people supplying the power would make massive profits off the population and have full control over them using power. They then just keep the few at the top rich so they are out of the way. This is how they use to buy a whole country without anyone really knowing what was happening.

What we are seeing today isn't much different....

originally posted by: Thrumbo
At the current rate of consumption, the world's oil supply (literally the estimated amount of oil in planet earth) will be exhausted in 40 years.

I think that's a pretty good reason to ween off of oil, regardless of where anyone stands politically and regardless of clean energy being a liberal "agenda".

Yes, yes, "peak oil".

A theory devised by a rogue researcher, in 1998, that claimed that world oil reserves would reach maximum levels in 2004-2005, and then start an irreversible descent.

20 years ago, in 1998, Scientific American published a paper by Colin J. Campbell and Jean H. Laherrère titled “The End of Cheap Oil” [1], starting a debate on oil depletion continuing to the present day. It was the return of a viewpoint on oil depletion which had been proposed more than 40 years before by Marion King Hubbert [2]⁠ and, in later years, largely forgotten. In their paper, Campbell and Laherrère updated Hubbert’s model with new reserve estimates and proposed that the world’s crude oil production would peak around 2004–2005, and then start an irreversible decline. Shortly afterward, Colin Campbell proposed the term “peak oil” for the highest global oil production level. The term was to become popular over the following decade, generating a true movement of ideas sometimes called the “peak oil movement.” Today, these predictions turn out to have been only partially correct, mainly because the role of “non-conventional” oil was underestimated. The peak oil movement seems to have faded away, while the concept seems to have disappeared from the debate and to be commonly described has having been “wrong.”

Yes, "peak oil", another failed prediction akin to the "rising sea level!" scare, that predicted parts of the East Coast U.S. should already have been submerged by now (looking out my window 2 miles from Long Island Sound.....not seeing any waves or ripples, or in fact, any water)

It would behoove people to start really, and I mean REALLY, scrutinizing the work of academics who specialize in doom porn, that is used and abused as a cudgel to manipulate human behavior.

You are getting duped friend. Unscrupulous people are cherry picking research (i.e. predictive modeling and theories) that in many cases, turns out to be wrong, and they are using that as fodder for changing what you buy, where you reside, how you live. Wake up, it's not too late, and you're on the correct forum to help this awakening along.

Dp

originally posted by: TonyS
Yea, you read that correctly. The WEF has now declared that in order to preserve "Democracy" Fuel and energy prices should be higher. It's a complicated read and somewhat disingenuous in its presentation but basically they are calling for an end to any and all tax credits for oil, gas and coal production along with higher taxes. This isn't new; basically this is the same idea as "right" pricing fossil fuels based upon their carbon content.

www.weforum.org...

First, leading democracies should agree to end the underpricing of fossil fuels, which is the principal factor preventing a clean energy transition. The underpricing associated with producing and burning coal, oil and gas amounted to $5.9 trillion in economic costs in 2020. Nearly a quarter of these losses – $1.45 trillion – occurred in 48 major and smaller democracies.

The leading democracies of the G20 should collectively commit to phasing out cost and tax breaks for the production and consumption of fossil fuels. They should also phase in more efficient pricing of fossil fuels through taxes or tradable permits to cover the costs of local air pollution, global warming, and other economic damages.

There are 3 more provisions you can read about at the link, all of which would severely increase the price of fossil fuels across the board. They justify this with this statement.

By delaying a clean energy transition, leading democracies are making their economies more vulnerable through continued reliance on fossil fuels. Collectively acting to foster a green transition is not only good for the climate but also critical for protecting democracy.

A key point in this of course is that fossil fuels are presently "underpriced". Of course, US consumers are presently paying the "market" price for these fuels. Apparently the "market price" is too low for the WEF.

My question is, how long, weeks, days, months, before we see the Biden administration take regulatory behavior to comply with this WEF edict? How about an Executive Order?

It's almost like the WEF has invested in green energy industry and wants to leverage the market to discourage competitive business.

The biggest threat facing the west now seems to be 'climate action'. Look what happened to Sri Lanka, total implosion of economy, look at Netherlands trying to put farmers out of business.

These loony climate action policies will cause the economy to collapse if allowed to. Trying to run a whole country on wind and solar is unviable if you want reliable 24/7 power. This climate action stuff is starting to get quite sinister and alarming IMO.

originally posted by: karl 12
a reply to: TonyS

Don't think the WEF give a toss about democracy Tony.

That's why they themselves are 'unelected' and 'unaccountable'.

For what it's worth there's an old VHS video here where the WEF is being discussed in relation to 'the controlled demolition of first world economies'.

That is pure gold, Karl! Thank you for posting that link. That was the 'spoiler alert' to what's happening today; the elephant in the room that got poo-pooed.

It's hard being open minded enough to consider the big picture and seeing what's happening- where it's all headed- in a world filled with biased, close-minded people who refuse to even look at any evidence of what's happening and going to happen....soon.

originally posted by: Thrumbo
At the current rate of consumption, the world's oil supply (literally the estimated amount of oil in planet earth) will be exhausted in 40 years.

I think that's a pretty good reason to ween off of oil, regardless of where anyone stands politically and regardless of clean energy being a liberal "agenda".

Yeah except these "experts" really suck at making predictions. Don't forget we should all be underwater by now.

a reply to: TonyS

Notice they all talk about "democracy" now and don't say a word about freedom?

originally posted by: Thrumbo
At the current rate of consumption, the world's oil supply (literally the estimated amount of oil in planet earth) will be exhausted in 40 years.

I think that's a pretty good reason to ween off of oil, regardless of where anyone stands politically and regardless of clean energy being a liberal "agenda".

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