{"id":25894,"date":"2021-10-15T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25894"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T17:52:20","slug":"statistic-of-the-day-going-carbon-free-would-cost-every-american-11300-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25894\/statistic-of-the-day-going-carbon-free-would-cost-every-american-11300-per-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistic of the Day:  Going Carbon-Free Would Cost Every American $11,300 PER YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From realistic climatologist Bjorn Lomborg, <a href=\"http:\/\/ereader.wsj.net?selDate=20211014&amp;goTo=A019&amp;artid=2\">writing<\/a> in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> this week, a jarring analysis of the cost of imposing the Biden\/Pelosi\/Schumer\/AOC carbon-free &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; agenda for every American annually:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"Fid_4\">A new study in Nature finds that a 95% reduction in American carbon emissions by 2050 will annually cost 11.9% of U.S. gross domestic product. To put that in perspective: Total expenditure on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid came to 11.6% of GDP in 2019. The annual cost of trying to hit Mr. Biden\u2019s target will rise to $4.4 trillion by 2050. That\u2019s more than everything the federal government is projected to take in this year in tax revenue. It breaks down to $11,300 per person per year, or almost 500 times more than what a majority of Americans is willing to pay.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But don&#8217;t you dare ask any questions.\u00a0 Just do what they say (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizpacreview.com\/2021\/08\/11\/john-kerrys-family-jet-emitted-around-30-times-more-carbon-than-average-american-does-all-year-1116957\/\">not what they necessarily do<\/a>, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From realistic climatologist Bjorn Lomborg, writing in The Wall Street Journal this week, a jarring analysis of the cost of imposing the Biden\/Pelosi\/Schumer\/AOC carbon-free &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; agenda for every American annually: A new study in Nature finds that a 95% reduction in American carbon emissions by 2050 will annually cost 11.9% of U.S. gross [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[860,26,196,205,5061,36,2124],"class_list":["post-25894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-biden","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-green-new-deal","tag-pelosi","tag-schumer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25905,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25894\/revisions\/25905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}