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“GREEN” ENERGY WILL BANKRUPT US
Powerline ^ | 14 Sep 2022 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 09/15/2022 8:06:42 AM PDT by Rummyfan

It is remarkable that, with the example of Europe before us, and with blackouts in California and Texas in the immediate past, our masters are plunging ahead with plans to do away with fossil fuels in favor of solar and wind energy. I have written many times about what folly this is, and won’t repeat those arguments here. Instead, something new.

Minnesota’s far-left Governor Tim Walz has proposed to make 100% of Minnesota’s electricity–not all energy, just electricity–carbon-free by 2040. Of course, he and his backers had no idea what would be required to meet that goal when they announced it. But my organization’s energy experts know how to do the math. They have just released a report that calculates the cost of that one “green” initiative.

Their conclusion: the 100% carbon-free electricity plan would cost $313 billion and would still lead to blackouts.

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I think a global economic meltdown is possible as a result of “green” fantasies. I don’t mean just a recession or garden-variety depression, I mean a collapse in which homes can’t be heated, lights don’t go on, factories shutter, supply lines break down, agriculture is devastated resulting in acute food shortages, a generation’s accumulated wealth vanishes, civilization begins to break down, and hundreds of millions of people–maybe more–may die. “Green” energy doesn’t mean unicorns and fairies frolicking in meadows. It means grim, fatal dystopia.

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


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Emphasis mine.
1 posted on 09/15/2022 8:06:42 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

That’s the plan.


2 posted on 09/15/2022 8:09:35 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Rummyfan
From another thread earlier today, but still appropriate.
3 posted on 09/15/2022 8:10:59 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Rummyfan
“GREEN” ENERGY WILL BANKRUPT US

As per the WEF GloboHomoNazi Plan.

4 posted on 09/15/2022 8:13:19 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Rummyfan

As obvious as the nose on your face, as people used to say.


5 posted on 09/15/2022 8:13:45 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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6 posted on 09/15/2022 8:14:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Us freepers are smarter than the average bear. Are the voters? Remember the rats start off with 45% of them 47 is you ask Mittens.


7 posted on 09/15/2022 8:14:15 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Exactly the plan.
And Think they’ve got a lot of people conditioned to have their lives ruined for “equity” “save the planet” etc.
If you read comments on Facebook, I swear a lot of these people (usually women but not only) would support houses being bulldozed to save a deer because “they were here before us”.


8 posted on 09/15/2022 8:14:22 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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See it coming...controlling your thermostat


9 posted on 09/15/2022 8:14:57 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: facedown

10 posted on 09/15/2022 8:16:06 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Rummyfan

You cannot power modern civilization on wind and solar, it cannot be done. The best evidence of this is that there is NO large scale, or really even small scale, example of this working anywhere. Yet we’re supposed to let them get rid of all mineral and gaseous fuels on the promise they can make it work?

FIGHT THIS every way you can, as if your life depended on it. Because it might.


11 posted on 09/15/2022 8:19:29 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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No one cares until it happens. The public has been brain washed to follow this “religion” regardless of how destructive or nonsensical it seems to be.

Eventually, it will hurt so much that even the morons in the American public will have to re-evaluate their membership in the cult.


12 posted on 09/15/2022 8:20:22 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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“Blackouts in California and Texas in the immediate past, our masters are plunging ahead with plans to do away with fossil fuels in favor of solar and wind energy.”

You give Democrats power and your home will be without power.


13 posted on 09/15/2022 8:20:55 AM PDT by Round Earther
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That’s its purpose.


14 posted on 09/15/2022 8:21:33 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: Sacajaweau

“See it coming...controlling your thermostat”

I read that the small portable electric heaters are in high demand.


15 posted on 09/15/2022 8:23:34 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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“And this is just one tiny slice, a relatively insignificant one, of the catastrophic “green” future that liberals are trying to inflict on us. That future will never arrive; the laws of physics don’t permit it.”

Indeed.


16 posted on 09/15/2022 8:25:04 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America!)
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That’s the plan. The globalists want to deconstruct America economically and culturally to transform it into a pliable clog in their elite run, socialist new world order. If American freedom and liberty are to be preserved, these globalists need to be stopped by any means necessary.


17 posted on 09/15/2022 8:26:42 AM PDT by allendale
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If the Chinese were paying the Bidens and the Western left to destroy the Western republics as competitors to China, they would be getting their money’s worth.


18 posted on 09/15/2022 8:29:33 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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Can’t bankrupt when you own the bank


19 posted on 09/15/2022 8:30:59 AM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: Rummyfan
A sane people and government would make sure the alternative energy works, is accessible and plentiful, plus economically feasible before forcing us to switch over.
Their plan of "head full speed towards the cliff and let's build a bridge when we get there", is just not going to work.

20 posted on 09/15/2022 8:31:16 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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