Posted on 04/14/2022 4:36:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
As reported in my last post, even the U.S. government’s own Energy Information Administration in the Department of Energy doesn’t believe for a minute that any kind of rapid transition to “net zero” carbon emissions is about to occur in this country. Although President Biden has supposedly committed the entire federal bureaucracy to the “net zero” by 2050 transition, the EIA projects steady and even increasing fossil fuel usage in the U.S. through the entire 28 intervening years.
But surely there must be somebody taking this green energy transition thing seriously. The obvious place to look for such serious commitment would be in New York State, and most particularly New York City. Here, deadly earnest climate campaigners dominate local politics. New York State’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, enacted in 2019 and effective in 2020, commits the State to the energy transition. And to prove its own bona fides, the City Council just enacted legislation at the end of 2021 banning new buildings from burning natural gas starting for smaller buildings (up to six stories) in 2024, just two years from now, and then applying to all new buildings by 2027, just five years away. Yup, natural gas is definitely on the fast train to oblivion around here.
All of which led me to be greatly curious when I heard the jackhammers going out on the street starting around 8 AM for the last several days. On closer observation, they seem to be putting in new pipelines of some sort:
So I picked out a guy who looked like the job foreman, and asked him what is going on. Sure enough, they are installing new gas mains in the neighborhood. According to the foreman, it’s a new higher-pressure natural gas system, to replace the old low pressure system. He said that the old mains were close to 100 years old.
So it’s great to know that we will shortly have a new natural gas distribution system in Greenwich Village, ready for the next hundred years or so. Do you think that they will just shut off the gas one day? I’m willing to bet that that’s not going to happen.
The natural gas will just be shut off if your social credit score drops too low.
Correct, Only good Comrades will be allowed heat and food.
Only in that I believe these guys are serious about destroying us and we are taking steps to be as prepared for whatever they try to inflict on us as possible.
The only people who take this thing seriously are the people who know how to parlay government money on BS projects into INCOME for themselves. 😁
Reality is a B!#(h. Under the Woke strategy, we will not only NOT be ‘net zero carbon’ by 2050, we will NEVER be. You simply can’t pass laws that negates physics. There is no technology that will store wind and solar power long enough to sail through the seasons.
It might be theoretically possible with some MAJOR changes are not possible with the current strategy:
1. MUCH-MUCH more nuclear power. This includes electricity generation, as well as trains, ships, and trucks, and also small portable units.
2. Allow things that fly that carry people and cargo. There are simply no batteries with the energy density even on the horizon that can do this with electricity.
3. Stop wasting money on ALL expenditures for “Climate Research”. Use the money for realistic research.
Until this and more happen, there will be no such pipe dream that actually happens.
The price of natural gas and other fuels will continue to skyrocket making home heating increasingly unaffordable especially for the elderly. We have already seen thousands of deaths of the elderly in Europe when ever there are arctic vortex type cold events that plunge temperatures. Similarly there have been thousands of deaths among the elderly in Europe when ever there are heat waves. The reason is that the cost of heating or cooling their homes is beyond what they can afford. We can expect the same here in the near future.
Indeed chumps are slow to get the idea never smarten up a chump more money in it.
Seriously enough to screw over our economy.
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