Dear Editor,

In 2018 President Trump spoke in a UN speech about how dangerous it was for Germany to become dependent on Russia. The German diplomats at the UN openly laughed at Trump. Now that Russia has cut off the supply of natural gas to the German economy, no one in Berlin is laughing. The brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops has forced the European Union to pull away from Moscow.

There is a “dark winter” approaching the world. It didn’t need to be because the world had plenty of fossil fuel to supply itself for hundreds of years while working on clean air technology. The world will not end by 2030 or 2040. This hysterical climate change response has gone on for decades. But when man doesn’t trust God he allows men of power and greed to determine what is truth. It is very dangerous to become over-dependent on one form of energy. For example, many areas of China rely heavily on hydropower for the production of electricity. A drought has forced China to close factories because there is not enough water to run turbines. Texas learned about the need for energy diversity when cold weather in 2019 greatly hampered its supply from windmills and gas wells. It has become very popular to ban the usage of fossil fuels by a given date. The California Air Resources Board just approved regulations that ban the sale of new gas-engine vehicles by 2035, requiring all new cars to run on electricity or hydrogen. The board mandated that by 2025, 40% of all cars should be carbon neutral. There is no chance they will meet this goal. They might as well vote that all cars should be able to fly by 2030. We do not have the capability of transmitting the power needed to charge that many vehicles. We do not produce enough key metals to build that many cars. Something in the order of about 90% of the lithium that’s used in batteries is processed in China right now, which we could be at war with very soon.

The Democratic Republic of Congo produces 70% of the world’s supply of cobalt. With an average price of an electric vehicle currently $66,000, most people cannot afford one. The Paris Agreement on climate change is a key reason why energy prices are so high. As soon as it was adopted by 196 Parties on 12 December 2015, oil companies quit investing in fossil fuels. Some people are waking up and are trying to prepare for the coming energy disaster in Europe. In Poland, people have lined up for days to buy coal. There has been one factor that has forced people in Europe to face reality. In the past few months, businesses have started receiving shocking gas and electricity bills. One pub owner in Great Britain was told her annual gas bill would go from $30,000 to $60,000 over the next year. Most bills have doubled, but some have gone up as much as 500%. Millions of businesses still weak from the COVID-19 lockdown will be forced to close forever. Europe is on the verge of collapse. This could have been averted if the “green new deal” madness hadn’t infected the world leadership. Now wars, starvation, mass riots and death seem very possible for western civilization. I firmly believe that demonic insanity is the only way to explain why world energy policies have become removed from basic common sense. As the world becomes more evil, the devil has greater control over the minds of people.”But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).

Randy Marple

Shadyside