Posted on 02/07/2019 9:07:42 AM PST by 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”.
No No.
Sails. Use the wind.
It needs to be pointed out - loudly - that none of AOC’s nor the larger Left’s dreams can be accomplished without a large force of government law enforcement officers ready and willing to take normal Americans who disagree with said dreams and shoot them in the head.
” which threatens “a massive transformation of our society.”
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Have they tried doing focus groups about framing their proposal like this?
I’m pretty sure that the naive suburban women living in their liberal bubble always thought that it was just some fat-cat, mean, old male exploiter types who were going to suffer under green radicalism. They really don’t want to hear that society is going to undergo a massive transformation.
“She’s Got Charlie Manson Eyes”
Yes she does and here is a song about Charlie’s eyes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yvAgmRU49c
1 Billion = 1.0 x 109
LoL!
They'd probably kick ya outa the place thinking you were wasted on drugs or infected with rabies or mad-cow disease.
You have to admit, this is a case of swinging for the fences, or better yet, “go big or go home”.
I think that they will be going home in two years.
This is squirrels juggling knives crazy.
She might as well be typing this up from her parent’s basement. Does she think she is the emperor of the world?
hahahahaha... so use as much fossil fuel as possible to rebuild EVERY building in the US in 10 years....
then stop all progress in the US...
I can’t stop laughing....
This twit is like a kid running free in a candy store, stuffing his gut with sugar.
Soon the pain will be unbearable...................
Uncle Sugar is going to give me a new house for free!
“”””I attempted a logical reply and gave up. It’s impossible to be logical with people who are delusional psychopaths.””””””
Ditto. Right on man.
Now if you could only talk to the Mrs.....
Occasional-Cortex is a poster-child for the Dunnung-Kruger effect.
“Rope is pretty cheap...”
...and it’s biodegradeable also.
At last - all my investments in unicorn farm futures are about to pay off!
“”but what will we do with our new shared prosperity””
Why we will do exactly what her buddies are doing in Venezuela - go without!!! I bet she wouldn’t even give up her lipstick.
We could return to 19th century technology. Since steam engines burn wood for fuel you can kiss every forest goodbye.
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