Posted on 01/16/2023 6:22:10 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The green energy group behind a study cited in Consumer Product Safety commissioner Richard Trumka Jr.'s call to ban gas stoves has partnered with the Chinese government to implement an "economy-wide transformation" away from oil and gas.
Colorado-based nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute, which published the December study that attributes 13 percent of U.S. childhood asthma cases to gas-stove use, is hardly staffed by an objective group of scientists.
The organization is demanding "systemic change and economy-wide transformation" to address a climate crisis it says we must go to great lengths to avoid. In 2013, for example, the Rocky Mountain Institute joined forces with China's National Development and Reform Commission—the government agency tasked with planning the communist nation's economy—to produce a report that advised China to replace existing appliances and generators with "clean energy technologies." The commission went on to set climate goals that included energy reduction targets. When local provinces in 2021 failed to meet those targets, the commission pushed them to implement electricity rations, prompting "dimmed traffic lights that cause chaos" and "half-cooked rice in rice cookers."
The Rocky Mountain Institute is far from the first green energy group to advocate for the banning of gas stoves, which nearly 40 percent of U.S. homes use. But the nonprofit's newfound influence reflects the Biden administration's alignment with the left's loudest climate activists. President Joe Biden has already proposed a natural gas phaseout in federal buildings, which would ban fossil-fuel equipment in new buildings by 2030. Leading green energy groups applauded the move, which will cost taxpayers millions of dollars annually, the Washington Free Beacon reported in December.
Beyond its public mission statement and work with the Chinese government, the Rocky Mountain Institute's biases are reflected in its gas-stove study, academic leaders told the Free Beacon . . .
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Scratch a green, find a Red.
There is no such thing a a million dollar gooberment expense. No gooberment expense is ever less than BILLIONS of dollars.
“Biden has already proposed a natural gas phaseout in federal buildings, which would ban fossil-fuel equipment in new buildings by 2030. Leading green energy groups applauded the move, which will cost taxpayers millions of dollars annually, the Washington Free Beacon reported in December.”
Virtue signaling is not a policy.
There's no such thing as a government expense. It's all taxpayers' expense.
China a d Biden words always seem to be connected on just about anything.
They’re called watermelons.
China. Teaching democrats the finer points of implementing communism. This will end well.
These wouldn’t be the same “greens” who depend on coal fired (or nuclear) power plants to charge their Tesla and who keep their thermostat at 74 in winter...are they?
Biden’s order could let China control US electric grid
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bidens-order-could-let-china-control-u-s-electric-grid
SHOOT a Green, will they BLEED Red is the question to ask.
Until these F-ing Greens live by their stupid ideas, their ideas will remain stupid.
The Chinese Communist Party want all the Gas for their Woks
China seems all in on the USA using, converting to, and dependent on “Green Energy”, but not so much for themselves. Gee, I wonder why?
You are correct of course. Caesar’s money is ours first.
“Scratch a green, find a Red.”
They sure earned the watermelon name!
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