Posted on 01/06/2015 3:50:23 PM PST by raptor22
Environmentalism: Re-upping on delusional climate-change fantasies, "Governor Moonbeam" asked in his inauguration speech Monday for the Golden State to meet half its energy needs with renewable energy by 2030.
Gov. Jerry Brown, who leads the state that hosted Solyndra, embraces bird-chopping wind turbines and builds crispy critter-producing solar panel farms, is a leading advocate of renewable energy and environmental protection.
As pollution from coal-fired plants and industries in China wafted across the Pacific, he took a deep breath at his fourth inauguration as the state's chief executive and doubled down on green energy's failed promise by tasking California to fight so-called climate change by committing to get half its electricity from renewable energy within the next 15 years.
"We must demonstrate that reducing carbon is compatible with an abundant economy and human well-being," Brown said in his speech.
Well, good luck with that. Part of the 2014 Republican wave can be traced to the Obama administration's war on coal that took its toll on states such as West Virginia and Kentucky, giving Senate control to the GOP.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
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I really think he is a sociopath. He knows the facts, the voters wishes; but ignores them.
Only bright spot is that he is less radical than a likely successor.
Re-call is not an option. Remember Arnold?
Maybe he is just having one of those flashbacks from LSD we were promised in high school?? Since there has been NO WARMING and in fact slight cooling for the last 18 or so years, one must question his sanity.
Well, he did stop the global cooling that was going on the last time he was governor ...
Remember Arnold?
You mean “rehab is for quitters” Arnold?? The guy born and raised a Nazi, Marxist piece of crap, and comes to the US and Marries into the leadership of the Communist Party, then calls himself a republican. That Arnold??
Governor Moonbeam used to drive a Saturn because that’s where he thought they were made.
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He’s the reason for term limits. Too bad he wouldn’t honor the intent of the law and the wishes of the people.
Isn’t this the same jackass who is welcoming foreign invaders into our country by the millions and giving them driver’s licenses? Da boy needs to shut the ... and stop preaching to us. California has a huge “carbon footprint” and he’s making it bigger every day by putting more vehicles on California’s roads and highways. Shut up Moonbeam!!!
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Interesting. The title of the referenced article brought Don Quixote’s preemptive attack on windmill “giants” to mind.
Gov. Jerry Brown has a disordered mind, as does all of his staff in my opinion, because they have no common sense.
The wind turbine and solar panel approach to clean energy have serious drawbacks and even more unintended consequences. Plus, they may NOT be economically viable.
Because the USA has coal and oil resources, why would Jerry Brown not look into what it will take to eliminate the undesirable products of combustion for coal and oil? It may cost much less.
We are many years away from having cost effective renewable energy from solar and wind turbines. For one they do not work 24/7 but only when there is sunshine and wind, unlike coal and oil.
Our country has been truly dumbed down by 30 or 40 years of affirmative action.
Who is going to fight with? The legislature is run by liberals
for liberals it is a love fest in California.
come here to Virginia and tell us how warm it is. Windchills of -7 on the way.
Supposedly they turn with the wind, but when they stop rotating, they use fossil fuels as backup to get them turning again.
Wouldn't that be a huge net LOSS of energy ?
Did I misunderstand that?
Plus PRODUCING solar panels and gigantic steel towers for the windmills must take a $hit ton of fossil fuel energy.
Wouldn't it take literally centuries to "pay off" the costs of producing these energy "creators"?
I'm not even counting the maintenance costs either. EVERYTHING breaks down, and needs fixing, eventually.
Please someone correct my ignorance.
That sounds like a lot of heat those things bounce back into the atmosphere - they very well could be causing actual global warming the more them that are put out. Has anyone considered this as a possibility?
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