Never mind the restrictions; the impact this Great Reset has had on many Americans’ discretionary income will be felt for years. Between employers’ belt-tightening and still-high grocery prices (despite the lack of shortages), it is clear more and more of us are just working for room and board - and many can’t even do that.
All we had to do was destroy lives and our economy.
As of 1 January, Colorado adopted the stupid-ass California emissions, rendering a replacement catalytic convertor prohibitively expensive. So the insurance is just totaling or salvaging the vehicles. I'm waiting on a salvage title for mine.
I got a cool little Accord (which passed emissions yesterday), because I need a car for work, but now I have to start the whole car payment thing all over again. I had two payments left on the Element!
Another emission in big fall is the emission of paychecks to employees.
The Green New Deal would result in similar effects. GDP and energy consumption are measures of the same thing, the latter being more honest and precise.
If you take minimum detectable yearly “increase” in temperature via measurement resolution and normal variation (say 0.1 deg C) and multiply it times the number of “new record high temperature years”, the cumulative increase in mean temperature would be several degrees Centigrade.
This has obviously not happened and we are still looking at mean temperature increases or decreases that are still in the uncertainty of the mean which makes it debatable whether there has been any true measurable increase or decrease in mean temperature .
It’s due to the consequences Covid-19. More people are working at home and FAR less air travel. Personal travel of almost every kind was way down.
joe biden is amazing... is election has spurred even pollution to leave the country...
>> Overall the demand for electricity was down just 2% but emissions fell by over 10%. <<
What happened? Renewable energy FINALLY became economically feasible for general-purpose applications. I know conservatives have been complaining for decades that solar, etc., are economically nonsensical, but sound technology has finally come... and not because of government investment. That only helped crowd out successful products. But technology which began as cost-effective only for niche applications has become cheaper and cheaper in a manner astonishingly similar to Moore’s Law.
Ain’t hard to do when your government drives 60% of our businesses out of business...
How much is due to fracking and cheap natural gas? And how long will that fracking last after January 20?
Greta Thunberg is pleased.