Posted on 04/06/2022 4:01:40 AM PDT by JV3MRC
The Associated Press couldn’t bring itself to outright admit that President Joe Biden falsely promised to Americans that they would save big on transitioning to green energy. Instead, AP just said he “misspoke” and “vastly overpromised.”
AP hedged in its fact-check by spinning that “Biden vastly overpromised Thursday when he told Americans they can expect savings of $500 a month by transitioning to renewable energy.” AP still brazenly attempted to salvage what Biden said by trying to act as the White House public relations team: “It’s possible they might save that much over a year, not per month.” AP even tried to peddle its cushioned fact-check on Twitter: “An AP Fact Check shows he misspoke.”
But aside from the bold-faced falsehood Biden told, even The New Yorker’s leftist editor David Remnick suggested in an August 2021 interview with Biden’s climate czar John Kerry that transitioning to green energy would cost Americans. “Transitioning to renewables is going to cost trillions of dollars and upend huge industries. We’re likely to have to eat less meat, use more public transportation,” said Remnick. Meanwhile, Blaze Media mocked AP on Twitter for its lackluster critique of Biden: “When Democrats get fact checked it's because they ‘misspoke.’”
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Braindead is basically an automoton.
Cue Emily Litella...
Shirt version:
Brandon lied again.
ap has declared biden president elect.
Plastered all over like the propagandist do
“But even AP couldn’t effectively protect Biden from his own folly. Biden reportedly claimed: “‘If your home is powered by safer, cheaper, cleaner electricity like solar or heat pumps, you can save about $500 a month on average.’””
There is some truth to that, actually. If you’re willing to invest about $100,000 and replace resistance electric heating with a heat pump, and live in a climate where heat pumps work efficiently (basically Southern California and the Gulf Coast), and buy a Tesla. Yes, you can probably save close to $500 a month on gas and electric bills.
But if you don’t live in a warmer climate, you can’t save the money, and if you live in a warmer climate but don’t invest the $100k for a heat pump (or close to it), you also cannot save that amount of money.
If course if you do spend the above, the 200 month payback time (17 years), still makes it a stupid ‘investment’, not to mention the depreciating value of the Tesla.
Meh. Nothing to see here.
Those promising all that savings & prosperity from “green energy” need to be placed somewhere where they will never be heard from again.
Leave it to Agit Prop to complain that commie biden isn’t commie enough.
Oh, thanks for the tip. “Overpromised” is the new word for lied.
Only Republicans lie, cheat, and steal. Democrats merely overpromise, exaggerate, bend the rules, or are otherwise careless. But none of those things are as bad as Republicans - even when the acts are just as bad or worse.
“vastly overpromised.”
Decoded commie speak: He lied.
“vastly overpromised.”
Decoded commie speak: He lied.
I spent $40K on a 10kW solar panel system with 30kWh battery storage and replacing my A/C and natural gas heater with a variable speed heat pump and also replacing my natural gas water heater with a hybrid water heater (electric water heater using mainly a built-in heat pump to slowly but efficiently reheat the water -- great for just 2 or 3 people). Right now, I barely break even with what it saves me compared to the monthly payment on the HELOC (2nd mortgage) I took out to buy all of it. Some months my savings is barely above the HELOC payment, other months below.
But as my HELOC balance is paid down my HELOC payment goes down with it. About near the end of this year (the 2nd year of owning it) I'll be saving on average net $40/month. At about the end of the 10th year it will have finished paying for itself.
Am I 100% on green energy? Nope. That's a pipe dream believed only by people smoking a Biden crack pipe. But it produces 56% (on average) of all the power I consume. So it's given me an inflation hedge against the Dims jacking up energy costs.
If that is the goal of someone "going green" then it's a do-able project (assuming like you say you live in the southern half of the U.S. and certain other variables go your way too). The same kind of thing with getting an EV (again, only if you're in the right circumstances like being married and having two cars anyway -- might as well have one an EV and the other a gas car to have the best of both worlds).
overpromised = lied
The greenies seldom mention ANYTHING about the COST of electricity, just the savings from not buying gas. They also never talk about the availability of electricity, which I suspect is severely lacking.
If you take out all the government subsidies for green energy, there is no savings. It is very expensive. If you work in green energy, you are a soulless leach on society. You suck tax dollar and are a contributor to the inflation that we are experience. Get a real eff’n job in a oil field or coal mine..
Utopians shocked slower ones hit hardest.
What you did makes sense for your case, but often won’t make sense for others. In my case, my neighbor has a huge tree right in front of the only good surface for panels...and he has no plans to remove it, regardless of my green dreams. So I’m stuck on the grid. I suspect many others are in that boat or have similar problems (such as living in apartments, particularly high rises).
Also, the amount of battery storage required to be off the grid is huge - to the point of simply not having the raw materials to build the batteries, and so the grid has to be ready to take over all loads after a bad day or two. This leaves the huge cost of the grid in place. Here in Texas, 60% of my power bill is for the grid, the other 40% is for the power generation. Should I only use the grid, say, 10% of the time, I will no longer be paying anything close to my fair share of the grid costs. Fine, of course, if it makes sense at a personal level, but if a lot of people do the same, then the grid will have to convert to flat-rate charges for everyone hooked up, solar or not.
Bottom line is that what you’re doing is fine, and I would likely do the same if I knew I could get decent energy from panels, but if everyone does it, the savings won’t be as much as people may think.
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