Trump right about Paris accord

I’m not a scientist proficient in the environment. I only graduated high school. However, with 76 years of experience, I can tell a bad agreement from a good one.

Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord was a good one. Under President Obama, the U.S. contributed $1 billion to the accord (which cannot be accounted for) and committed to another $2 billion.

China and India still continue to build coal plants. Due to the accord’s environmental restrictions that U.S. policies adhere to and police (China and India do not), we closed 138 coal plants and 207 were slated to close. U.S. compliance with the accord’s restrictions would result in the loss of 2.7 million American jobs by 2025.

Following were Obama’s contributions to eliminate climate change by investing tax dollars in solar energy companies that went bankrupt during his administration: Evergreen Solar ($25 million), SpectraWatt ($500,000), Solyndra ($535 million), Beacon Power ($43 million), Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million), SunPower ($1.2 billion), FirstSolar ($1.46 billion), Babcock and Brown ($178 million), EnerDel’s Energy ($118.5 million), Amonix ($5.9 million), Fisker Automotive ($529 million), Abound Solar ($400 million), A123 Systems ($279 million), Willard/Kelsey Solar ($701,000). In addition, 19 more solar companies went bankrupt, totaling $1.238 billion.

The money gambled by Obama is lost forever. We should be thankful Trump is our president. Taxpayer money will not be wasted again.

This story was originally published July 13, 2017 at 2:42 PM with the headline "Trump right about Paris accord."