Lost in this Green New Deal is how it would affect food production in this country. Farmers use internal combustion driven machinery to plant, harvest and transport agricultural products to markets. Fossil fuels are also needed to produce fertilizers and pesticides. Would AOC propose we go back farming with horses and oxen... note these animals are also flatulent. The production of plant based foods would have to increase to accommodate the banning of farting cows, pigs and chickens as we move to the Spartacus Booker diet. The Green New Deal would mean mass starvation.
Farmers use internal combustion driven machinery to plant, harvest and transport agricultural products to markets.
Elon Musk has shown us that the "electrification" of long-haul tracks is feasible. The same technology could be used to develop electric power plants for tractors, combines, and other farm machinery. Now, the cost of retrofit will be huge, but AOC doesn't care about the cost -- or who pays for it
Fossil fuels are also needed to produce fertilizers and pesticides.
I would tend to argue with you on this point. Transport of raw material would be done using pure-electric rail, replacing the diesel-based electromotive train engines. The actual formulation of fertilizers and pesticides would be done using renewable energy sources. The amount of hydrocarbons actually put into said fertilizers and pesticides would be minuscule compared to the amount used to move the stuff.
Implementation time? Longer than AOC would like. Also, someone would have to make the investment in new eco-friendly train engines -- who would step up to the plate? Musk wanted electric trucks to tote battery packs from Gigafactory in Nevada to his auto plant in California. Anyone know if any company is working on the same for rail?
Another example of the lefties wanting things paid for by other people's money.
Greenpeace Co-Founder Patrick Moore views the consequences of the Green New Deal in terms of a famine driven cannibalism as an end result.
"In a distant field, beyond the town, they saw the figure of a man moving slowly, contorted by the ugliness of a physical effort beyond the proper use of a human body: he was pushing a plow by hand." -- Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged
“Farmers use internal combustion driven machinery to plant, harvest and transport agricultural products to markets.”
Uhhh, excuussse me. Why do we need farmers and all of their messy dirty things?
People can just go to the grocery store for their food.