"As with many things it was basically Monty Python’s idea"
Posted on 12/18/2018 10:33:43 PM PST by zeestephen
The Trump administration isn’t about renewable energy, but thanks to the Washington, D.C., city council, it could soon be running on clean power. The council passed one of the most ambitious climate bills in the country on Tuesday requiring the District to get all of its energy from renewables by 2032...."This is only the beginning," Reverend Yearwood, the head of the Hip Hop Caucus, said at the press conference after the bill was passed.
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I guess every member of the DC city council will never fly on a plane again either, right?
Well, if the scholarly “Hip Hop Caucus” is for this, then it must be good. /s
What could possibly go wrong?
The problem is that these big trendy socialist projects in DC are paid for with Federal tax dollars
When they fail miserably they just start a new one
When there is a shortage of electricity in DC, the federal government will appropriate it all, leaving nothing for private citizens who will be forced out of the district.
WTH is the “hip hop caucus”?
>>.”This is only the beginning,” Reverend Yearwood, the head of the Hip Hop Caucus, said at the press conference after the bill was passed.
But what did the Marvel Universe representative have to say about it and are the Furries on board?
"As with many things it was basically Monty Python’s idea"
>>Correction: “Respec My Vote”
Corre-X-tion - “Don’ Dis My Vote”
Both of your links go to the same place (click bait MSN). Why does one of the links say Earther?
So far in the future that it is meaningless. They could pass an even more “courageous” bill and mandate that all energy must come from fairy dust by 2032.
or Republicans, being that most power plants, especially solar, wind, and hydro, are built in Republican voting areas.
Democrats get most of their food, water, power, fuel, heat, from us gun-toting Republicans. We have so much power over them it's laughable. We need to collude a little and start taxing our exports to the cities. A blockade now and then would remind them "who's your daddy" and nip many problems in the bud.
He sure does look pissed off to be at peace with his maker and spreading the good news of Christ’s redemption.
Just sayin.
Soylent Green, anyone?
I’ve read a serious, well documented, study on this subject as it pertains to the District of Columbia. The DC government can pass all the legislation they want, but they simply cannot violate physics or generate the mountains of cash required to beg, borrow, or steal enough so-called renewable energy to satisfy their SJW souls. The best they can do is arrange for energy purchases from outside the District and pray that the cost of each and every alternative source of power is dramatically reduced by their self-imposed time limit.
If they put too many solar panels in the slums, a lot of buildings will collapse under the weight...
We move out of town. Didn't DC vote 97% for Hillary?
DC is the living history museum of the failures of socialism. They can't even clear the snow off the roads or catch murderers.
The DC community electric bill is going to triple in size. Renewable energy is not cheap.
They said they divested their pension funds away from fossil fuel investments. Maybe they invested in Solyndra? Uh oh.
The DC City Council is having a serious stupidity attack. Since DC doesn’t produce its own electricity, all Pepco can do is buy renewable credits on the open market and allocate those costs to DC ratepayers. I’ve not seen any estimates on what that will mean to utility bills. If this actually goes forward, it will be another powerful spur to gentrification. Low income people will be hammered and will have an added incentive to move. The calculation will be different for middle and upper-income residents. Most of them are in the city now because they don’t want to deal with ridiculous suburban commutes. It’s an arbitrage calculation between electric bills vs. gasoline, tolls and time.
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