Green New Deal: "Air Travel Stops Becoming Necessary" & More!

https://www.atr.org ^ | February 7th, 2019 | Michael Palicz

[rxsid]

"Green New Deal: "Air Travel Stops Becoming Necessary"
Michael Palicz on Thursday, February 7th, 2019, 11:27 AM

This morning, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released an overview of her “Green New Deal” which threatens "a massive transformation of our society."

Below are the details of the proposal.

Rebuild every single building in the U.S.
“Upgrade or replace every building in US for state-of-the-art energy efficiency.”

Will end all traditional forms of energy in the next ten years.

The Green New Deal is “a 10-year plan to mobilize every aspect of American society at a scale not seen since World War 2 to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.”

Plans to ban nuclear energy within 10 years if possible.
“It’s unclear if we will be able to decommission every nuclear plant within 10 years, but the plan is to transition off of nuclear and all fossil fuels as soon as possible.”

Build trains across oceans and end all air travel!
“Build out highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary”.

Don’t invest in new technology of Carbon Capture and Storage, just plant trees instead!
“We believe the right way to capture carbon is to plant trees and restore our natural ecosystems. CCUS technology to date has not proven effective.”

Mandates all new jobs be unionized.
“Ensure that all GND jobs are union jobs that pay prevailing wages and hire local.”

May include a carbon tax.
“We’re not ruling a carbon tax out, but a carbon tax would be a tiny part of a Green New Deal”

May include cap and trade.
“…Cap and trade may be a tiny part of the larger Green New Deal plan”

How much will it cost?
No estimate of the total cost of implementing the Green New deal is offered by Ocasio-Cortez. However, as Ocasio-Cortez admits, “even if every billionaire and company came together and were willing to pour all the resources at their disposal into this investment, the aggregate value of the investments they could make would not be sufficient.” She does provide one estimate that the cost to “repair and upgrade infrastructure U.S. infrastructure” alone will cost “$4.6 trillion at minimum”. How will it be paid for? Don’t worry about that.

Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t provide any insight into how the trillions of dollars in spending will be paid for other than claiming, “The Federal Reserve can extend credit to power these projects and investments and new public banks can be created to extend credit”. Bus as Ocasio-Cortez says, “the question isn’t how will we pay for it, but what will we do with our new shared prosperity”.

[VanDeKoik]

I’m sure we’ve yet to read the part about a unicorn in every garage and a Prius in every pot.

[Kickass Conservative]

If you go out for a Drink, run this by your local Bartender and see what they say.

[lakeman]

I see a sting coming her way that will discredit her forever probably run by the old guard democrats and their corporate partners. I don’t believe she is smart enough to protect herself from herself. Think bribes or other but I expect it.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

AOC is daft as a brush.

[tet68]

Trying to argue with the insane makes you as crazy as them.

[Army Air Corps]

This is like the Great Leap Forward...only worse.

[HotHunt]

Sounds like satire but I'm afraid it's what she actually believes.

Handing the future of our Republic over to a former broke bartender is about as smart as allowing a former bus driver to run Venezuela into the ground.

Didn't we learn anything from electing a community organizer as president twice?

[rxsid]

Why print 1 million dollar bills...when you can print 1 billion dollar bills?

[Sgt_Schultze]

We need airplanes until this is a reality

[Sicon]

If this is true, she’s dumber than a bag of hammers, and considerably less attractive.

[Grampa Dave]

"She really is insane!"

I’m in love with those eyes. Does our Congressional Health insurance cover that operation? If so, where do I sign up?

[liberalh8ter]

At first I was like, “someone must be compiling a plan for her to introduce” but then it came out and I was like, “Nope, she’s the only idiot that could dream this up”.

[Army Air Corps]

“Like, yannow, you can jus’ plug ‘em into a wall or sumpthin’ like those toy trains!”

[wbill]

Don’t invest in new technology of Carbon Capture and Storage, just plant trees instead

So, she's batting 1 for 10. That's well below the Mendoza line.

[The Pack Knight]

Will end all traditional forms of energy in the next ten years. The Green New Deal is “a 10-year plan to mobilize every aspect of American society at a scale not seen since World War 2 to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.”

Plans to ban nuclear energy within 10 years if possible. “It’s unclear if we will be able to decommission every nuclear plant within 10 years, but the plan is to transition off of nuclear and all fossil fuels as soon as possible.”

And replace it with what? Fairy dust? Care Bear rainbow rays? Homeless guys on hamster wheels?

Build trains across oceans and end all air travel! “Build out highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary”.

They're just now breaking grown on high speed rail between Houston and Dallas, and the (wildly optimistic) completion date is 2024, with a (wildly optimistic) price tag of $15 billion. They're going to build a GLOBAL high speed rail network in 12 years?! The price tag on that ALONE is going to be more than the $4 trillion estimate for the whole Green New Deal

Don’t invest in new technology of Carbon Capture and Storage, just plant trees instead! “We believe the right way to capture carbon is to plant trees and restore our natural ecosystems. CCUS technology to date has not proven effective.”

Heh. Don't they know trees lower Earth's albedo, causing it to absorb more solar energy?

May include a carbon tax. “We’re not ruling a carbon tax out, but a carbon tax would be a tiny part of a Green New Deal”

May include cap and trade. “…Cap and trade may be a tiny part of the larger Green New Deal plan”

Uh, ok. So how are they going to pay for all this, then?

Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t provide any insight into how the trillions of dollars in spending will be paid for other than claiming, “The Federal Reserve can extend credit to power these projects and investments and new public banks can be created to extend credit”. Bus as Ocasio-Cortez says, “the question isn’t how will we pay for it, but what will we do with our new shared prosperity”.

Oh, yeah. She must have been talking so some Freepers. We're going to make the currencies of Argentina or the Weimar Republic look pretty stable by comparison.

[Red Badger]

The Dem-Commies want you immobilized so you cannot leave their paradise.

Just like North Korea and East Germany, the walls were to keep people IN not out...............

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Fiddlstix]

[redshawk]

Hell yeah.
Bette Davis eyes !

She is so far off the hot/crazy matrix.
NYC you suck

[I want the USA back]

A carbon tax? Surely they mean a CO2 tax! but they don’t. They are too stupid to understand that carbon combines with other elements to form complex molecules. It no longer acts as carbon when combined.

A high speed rail system would be great, but would they move TSA to train stations and harass us for bringing a bottle of water on board?

I reject it all, because it’s nothing more than government takeover of the economy, which is communism.