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Why New York Could Be the New National Model for Climate Policy
The New Republic ^ | April 6, 2023 | by Liza Featherstone

Posted on 04/06/2023 4:55:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

In recent weeks, both houses of New York’s legislature have approved a historic plan to start a publicly funded renewable energy program, the state’s best hope for meeting its own emissions reductions goals.

... New York’s Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA) could potentially be the boldest challenge yet to the fossil fuel industry. That’s because of the principle it establishes: that the state should be empowered to provide clean energy if the private sector fails to. The bill is therefore seen by proponents and detractors alike as a possible foundation for socializing and centralizing control of all energy in order to effectively address the climate crisis and keep energy affordable and accessible to all. It provides a way of ensuring that public interest, rather that the profit motive, dominates energy generation.

The idea for public ownership comes from socialist activists, while the momentum comes from Democratic Socialists of America’s organizing, but also from the broad appeal to young people who see the urgency to push for climate solutions that don’t leave their futures in the hands of the same corporations that have already put them in jeopardy.

(Excerpt) Read more at newrepublic.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; newyork; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 04/06/2023 4:55:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It still sounds likes communism.


2 posted on 04/06/2023 4:57:27 AM PDT by Fzob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re going to need a lot of other people’s money to survive.


3 posted on 04/06/2023 4:59:50 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because it makes no economic sense?

“that the state should be empowered to provide clean energy if the private sector fails to.”


4 posted on 04/06/2023 5:00:34 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they wacnto diese for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds insane but then that’s a definitieon of Communism.


5 posted on 04/06/2023 5:01:55 AM PDT by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“publicly funded” = Taxpayer funded or printing press funded.


6 posted on 04/06/2023 5:03:49 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“in order to effectively address the climate crisis”

Ah, it’s comedy. I get it now.


7 posted on 04/06/2023 5:04:33 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LOL!! ANOTHER block taken out of the JENGA city!


8 posted on 04/06/2023 5:05:52 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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But if it succeeds, New York’s Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA) could potentially be the boldest challenge yet to the fossil fuel industry. That’s because of the principle it establishes: that the state should be empowered to provide clean energy if the private sector fails to. The bill is therefore seen by proponents and detractors alike as a possible foundation for socializing and centralizing control of all energy in order to effectively address the climate crisis and keep energy affordable and accessible to all.

Reading this simply provides images of productive New Yorkers shivering in the cold. while the elites and poor have the heat up to 75.

9 posted on 04/06/2023 5:06:37 AM PDT by Fzob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The object is to take over and operate all our utilities. We will be metered and allotted...and cost to the consumer will go up up up.


10 posted on 04/06/2023 5:08:11 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Dispatch-able Emissions Free Resources.” This is the term used in New York’s net zero Scoping Plan. It stands for technologies that have not yet been invented. Their whole plan depends on DEFRs because they don’t have the courage to just say “Miracles.”


11 posted on 04/06/2023 5:09:56 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes.

Absolute Propaganda.

Total Lies.

Sad Part? Many believe this nonsense. A fatal error.


12 posted on 04/06/2023 5:12:12 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Sacajaweau

So how do we make these people and there commie ideas go away? Don’t say elections either, they also have that covered.


13 posted on 04/06/2023 5:12:49 AM PDT by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
the state’s best hope for meeting its own emissions reductions goals.

Never going to "meet its own emission goals" and in the meantime will destroy the NY economy.

Trying To Head Off New York's Total Self-Destruction

The CLCPA’s overarching goal is an 85 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and a net-zero state economy by 2050. Intermediate steps on the way include 6,000 megawatts of installed solar and 185 trillion BTU savings in energy efficiency by 2025, 70 percent renewable energy production and 3,000 megawatts of battery storage by 2030, 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind production by 2035 and 100 percent zero-emissions electricity production by 2040.

To say the CLCPA’s goals are ambitious is an understatement, and yet they will not be adequate to provide the state with sufficient clean energy to ensure the continuing reliability of the electrical grid

One place where Hanley makes a real contribution to the debate is by producing a chart, based on data from the federal Energy Information Administration and Department of Energy, that makes the absurdity of the CLCPA goals apparent:

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-3-23-trying-to-head-off-new-yorks-total-self-destruction

14 posted on 04/06/2023 5:14:16 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: Sacajaweau

BINGO!! ALL ABOUT CONTROL OVER US!


15 posted on 04/06/2023 5:17:55 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There’s a lot of hot air coming out of that dump that can be used and the trash can make mountains of compost.


16 posted on 04/06/2023 5:18:18 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: dforest

High Velocity Lead Pills????


17 posted on 04/06/2023 5:24:53 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: 2banana

You energy allocation will depend on your social score.


18 posted on 04/06/2023 5:29:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Flee New York. Run for your lives.


19 posted on 04/06/2023 5:34:34 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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“ The bill is therefore seen by proponents and detractors alike as a possible foundation for socializing and centralizing control of …”

That the above doesn’t, after all this time and history, resonate in their heads as a massive negative, is truly astounding. This lack has to be that it transfers power through the few and that that is the only reason for it.

We’re dealing with pure relentless unadulterated evil here, nothing less.


20 posted on 04/06/2023 5:39:51 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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