Soloring away also
Posted on 10/02/2022 7:17:31 AM PDT by rktman
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) wanted regulatory reform, in part to reverse some of the Biden Administration's reversals of Trump-era reforms intended to expedite permits for fossil fuel projects.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) needed Manchin’s vote in the 50-50 Senate to enact his latest spending extravaganza, the Inflation Reduction Act, which was primarily a massive climate and “green” energy subsidy arrangement. It gives Schumer allies some $370 billion in wind, solar, battery, and other funding, tax credits, and subsidies. In exchange, Schumer would offer a path for Manchin’s reform bill.
Manchin voted YEA and promptly got bushwhacked. Once he’d helped enact the IRA, he had zero leverage. Schumer, he discovered, had promised an opportunity, maybe a vote, but not actual support. House and Senate members told him, we weren’t part of your secret negotiations with Schumer; we didn’t shake hands on any deal; we don’t want easier permitting for drilling, pipelines, and LNG terminals that could help send US natural gas to Britain and Europe.
In the end, it’s probably a good thing Manchin’s bill went nowhere.
Yes, it provided some much-needed and long overdue reforms to curb the paralysis by analysis and endless litigation that have plagued fossil fuels, highways, airports, and countless other projects for decades.
But it also had Trojan horse provisions that would have unleashed hordes of newly subsidized wind, solar, and transmission marauders on much of the Lower 48 USA, to send pseudo-clean electricity to mostly Democrat cities and states that don’t want even “renewable” power generation in their backyards.
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We’re a combination of Idiocracy, 1984, and a Brave New World...
Whatever happened to folks suing(and winning) when their “view shed” was destroyed by some sort of project? I hate the solar fields and REALLY hate seeing the wind turbines in the middle of nowhere.
That suit can only be won by rich & powerful people now.
It’s an eyesore and completely inefficient.
Nuclear power is the answer, so that’s why we aren’t building any.
I agree. In our area, solar farms are taking over the farms and landscape. Ugly and electric bills going up!
Our grid cannot handle the load as it is today. What happens when they add 10 million ‘plug ins’?
Wonder how the tesla charging stations did with Ian....... Just wait until “they” install them every 50 miles on the interstates. Hard to fine a rest area some places for over a hundred miles out west yet plug ins every 50 miles? No doubt with diesel generators to supply power?
The nation was built by engineers who had a solid sense of what was practical, economic and efficient. Once the major construction was finished, the lawyers and green kooks were able to take over. They have ZERO sense of what is possible or practical.
California built its infrastructure for 20 million people tops, but now has 40 million. The nation built its infrastructure for 150 million people, but now has 330 million. All the old infrastructure is at or nearing the end of its life.
We are going pay a dear price for failing infrastructure and the naive child-like belief that “green” can replace what used to work reliably.
Salt water and wind aren't kind to wind farms - fast moving or slow.
Lucky for us parts and labor used in repairs and replacement of windmills are energy free... /s
They forced many to entertain their mental illness and the mental illness of the woke dopes just like they want us to believe their climate scam
Congress passed laws in the '90s that destroyed the hyper-reliable regulated vertical monopoly model of power delivery, and replaced it with something called Regional Transmission Organizations.
Now, RTOs own the grid network, and must buy power from independent generators according to a Byzantine set of "market rules" that, rather than reducing cost to the consumer, have actually raised it.
The system is being gamed relentlessly, (remember Enron?)
The worst gamers are the solar & wind suppliers, which would not even exist in the mix were it not for the mandated RTO system.
With the RTO system it seems that "renewables" get only a small fraction of their revenue from actually selling power to the grid. The rest is subsidies. And for all that, what power they DO supply is so highly variable that it is destabilizing the RTO grids to the point where rolling blackouts are almost certain to occur this winter.
This matters not to the "green energy" oligarchs who have bought out the Democrat party. Follow the money, a great man once said.
We’re going to be back to riding horses when the power grid crashes.
Sweet. I have 16 of them.
It’s insanity, but also deliberate.
What would be left of all those off shore windmills after a hurricane like we just experienced with Ian? Instead of millions without power in the hurricanes path half the country would experience rolling blackouts.
Hay now! Get it! 16 hayburners. Nice.
“to send pseudo-clean electricity to mostly Democrat cities and states that don’t want even “renewable” power generation in their backyards.”
If the so called green energy ever becomes practical, the econazis will be the first ones to want to kill it.
They’re against anything that actually works.
Soloring away also
You clearly got that right!
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