Joe Biden's Green New Deal impact

 Joe Biden talked frequently about the benefits of going green when Biden's Build Back Better Bill was passed by the House. Having thought that we'd saved America by killing the bill, it was stunning to hear Joe Biden say during Wednesday's presser that he planned on splitting up BBB. Still, it's worth hearing of the total impact of BBB. It's time to crush this bill once-and-for-all.

Salena Zito's latest article highlights how the Democrats' policies are hurting Blue Collar America. In the article, Ms. Zito writes about "Berks County dairy farmer Lolly Lesher." Specifically, Ms. Zito writes that the Democrats' Green New Deal is hurting farmers in a new, unanticipated way:

The matriarch of this seven-generation dairy-farming family said weather is one of the three variables farmers traditionally have no control over, and that keeps their lives and livelihood in a constant state of uncertainty. "The other two are the politics of trade and the fluctuating tastes of the American consumer, a great example of that would be recent dietary fads like almond and oat milk," said Ms. Lesher of the plant-based drinks that now stand carton to carton with milk in the dairy aisle.

Now, there's a fourth variable that's beyond farmers' control:

Ms. Lesher says that now a fourth variable has emerged, and it is gutting the farming industry. "Energy costs," she said, shaking her head. "They are wreaking havoc on our inputs both in terms of access as well as costs."

Ms. Lesher explains that it all begins with the equipment she needs to operate her 250-plus acre farm: "My tractor has 385 horsepower to plow the field, to plant the grain, to harvest the grain, so we spend thousands and thousands of dollars on fuel just for that tractor."

It isn’t just the cost of products that come from energy; it's also availability. "We are having a very hard time even buying fertilizer," Ms. Lesher said. The farm uses the manure it generates as fertilizer, of course, "but we also buy urea, which is a petroleum-based fertilizer,” Ms. Lesher said, "and it's tripled in price. Am I going to get triple for the product when I sell it? No. Our profit margins are really slimming down because of the huge impact of increases in petroleum."

The saying is that farmers are the only businesspeople who buy on the retail market and sell on the wholesale market while expecting to make a profit. The Biden administration isn't familiar with that saying. That's just part of why Democrats don't understand farmers and other blue collar Americans. Today's Democrats are as familiar with farming as penguins are with the tropics.This is how familiar with farming Democrats are:

Mr. Bloomberg's explanation of farming drips with elitism. That explains why Democrats have morphed into a bi-coastal political party. They aren't the blue collar or heartland party anymore.