Energy Poverty Around the World

canadafreepress.com ^ | 3/16/2016 | Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

[rktman]

The global warming/climate change industry has been aggressively pushing renewable energy, wind, solar, and biofuels for a long time even though the economies of various industrialized countries need much more energy than what renewables generate.

The green activists have been zealously lobbying Congress and the EPA to change the laws, rules, and regulations that would make it much more expensive and difficult for fossil fuel energy producers to survive while passing the higher costs onto consumers, impoverishing those customers on fixed incomes and taking away disposable income from the rest.

Green energy causes electricity poverty around the world. Today the Fraser Institute of Canada, an independent, non-partisan public policy think-tank released a study that found that energy poverty is on the rise in Canada.

“Government policies that raise electricity prices may push some families into energy poverty and further stretch the household budgets of families already in energy poverty,” said Taylor Jackson, study co-author and policy analyst at the Fraser Institute.

[rktman]

Yup. But, hildebeast again last night yakked about clean energy and puttin' coal miners out of work and shutting down coal companies. I guess that's her way of creating jobs? Weird huh?

[Paine in the Neck]

Wealth is, at its most fundamental level, measured by how much energy you can command. The more energy you have access to the richer you are, individually, as a business, as a society.

This effort to make energy less available, less reliable, and more expensive is at a level of societal insanity comparable to that which overwhelmed the Xhosa in 1856 when the prophetess of doom, Nongqawuse, convinced them that salvation lay in destroying all their cattle and crops. It will not turn out well.

Turning our backs on cheap, plentiful energy from any source is just as bad a move.

[rktman]

Individually, in some place solar may work of a single home but power storage is the issue. I have a big enough chunk of space on the south side of my house(No, not on the roof like my neighbor. Pigeon heaven now) that I could easily put panels in place for our house. But, probably won’t do it. Large scale? I’m not sold on either wind or solar.

[G Larry]

This is the true oppression by the left.

Population control.

They don’t want the third world people competing for their own resources.

Imagine if we’d helped Africa with hydro-electric power or natural gas plants?

[rktman]

Then we’d lose the romanticism of dung fires in the morning wafting over the quaint mud huts and stick shelters.