By Kenny Webster
Greetings from the former Energy Capital of the world: Houston, Texas.
I know it s been a while since we ve talked about local news on this blog. In my defense Washington DC has been absolutely bonkers lately (perhaps you ve heard) and now our state lawmakers are back in Austin, Texas for another legislative session. So there s been plenty to distract us.
But if you ve been following President Joe Biden s executive orders you already know Democrats are destroying jobs all across the country, including (and especially) here in the Lone Star State. And somehow Mayor Turner has managed to find a way to throw gas on the fire.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File
Climate Czar John Kerry held a press conference on Wednesday ahead of President Joe Biden signing an executive order that will cause every department and every member of the Cabinet to be thinking a lot about the weather for the first six months of their jobs. It creates new task forces, requires in-depth strategic plans, and looks like a lot of busywork. It marks the beginning of $2 trillion in taxpayer dollars that Biden has pledged to spend.
The order also requires measures that will impact employees in the fossil fuel industry. It includes everything from cutting any current subsidies, to trying to eliminate industry financing globally, to eliminating new leases of natural gas and oil exploration on federal land, to putting renewable eyesores like wind and solar farms on those same lands. It goes on for dozens of paragraphs. Just canceling the Keystone XL pipeline cost 11,000 jobs.
By Kenny Webster
Greetings from the former Energy Capital of the world: Houston, Texas.
I know it s been a while since we ve talked about local news on this blog. In my defense Washington DC has been absolutely bonkers lately (perhaps you ve heard) and now our state lawmakers are back in Austin, Texas for another legislative session. So there s been plenty to distract us.
But if you ve been following President Joe Biden s executive orders you already know Democrats are destroying jobs all across the country, including (and especially) here in the Lone Star State. And somehow Mayor Turner has managed to find a way to throw gas on the fire.
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President Joe Biden has been on the job for just over a week and has already destroyed any credibility he is a “moderate.”
On his first day in the Oval Office, Biden signed an executive order mandating biological males be allowed to participate in women’s sports, effectively ending them and destroying Title IX. Last week, President Joe Biden wasted no time in pushing policies that threaten to gut legal protections for women and girls. Unfortunately, we’ve already gotten a glimpse of what this means. The past few years, we’ve watched as female athletes have increasingly lost out on championship titles and opportunities to advance to the next level of competition. All because of policies like those President Biden is pushing,” Alliance Defending Freedom, which has sued on behalf of female athletes in the past,