CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/JOE BIDEN: “I headed up the Recovery Act, which put more money into moving away from fossil fuels to — to solar and wind energy than ever has occurred in the history of America.
Look, what we have to do is we have to act right away. And the way we act right away is, immediately if I’m elected president, I’ll reinstate all the mileage standards that existed in our administration which were taken down. That’s 12 billion gallons of gasoline — barrels of gasoline to be saved immediately…
We’re the only country in the world that’s ever taken great crisis and turned it into great opportunity. And one of the ways to do it is with farmers here in Iowa, by making them the first group in the world to get to net zero emissions by paying them for planting and absorbing carbon in their fields.”
-Joe Biden as quoted by Des Moines Register, “Read the full transcript of Tuesday night’s CNN/Des Moines Register debate,” desmoinesregister.com, Jan. 14, 2020