Posted on 02/05/2023 12:23:51 PM PST by Twotone
Since Grover Cleveland was president, no one has accused the average politician of being principled or even consistent. Year after year, Republicans claim to care about fiscal prudence but, when in power, spend like Democrats. In their turn, Democrats insist that they want to engineer a transition to a green energy economy, but their actions contradict this goal.
Of course, you would miss these contradictions if you looked only at the effort Democrats pour into distributing green energy subsidies. The infrastructure bill of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act adopted last year included enormous subsidies for green energy. Then Congress doubled down by enacting the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill at the end of 2022. This bill includes large funding increases for clean energy and other climate-related programs, including the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, biofuel research and development, and other agencies' climate research agendas.
Looking at the subsidies alone, you could believe that Democrats are all in on using the government to impose green energy. But such a focus is too narrow.
For one thing, most innovations capable of truly addressing climate change are likely yet to be discovered by the private sector. Betting that the few options picked and heavily favored by government officials—namely solar and wind—will prove to be the best options is risky. And, in fact, government incentives could be counterproductive as they direct investment toward politically alluring but scientifically or economically unpromising options, while leaving genuinely promising options underfunded regardless of their merits. We have seen this happen before with the Section 1705 green energy program, when DOE funding attracted many private investors to the now-defunct Solyndra and Abound solar.
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Warp speed some new nuke plants.
Every green effort that has been made has created an even worse environmental problem elsewhere.
Green is an area where we want them to be hypocritical.
More accurately look at how they live. None are following the “ideals” for being green they want to impose on the rest of us.
I know a whole lot about how the wealthy ones live, and it would shock the vast majority of people.
Visit just the primary home of the celebrity environmentalists you know of and you will see the commercial-size water meters, gas meters, and electric meters, it takes to feed their homes.
You should see the daily traffic to and from their homes, of servants and yardmen and repairmen/installers and more.
The hotels they stay in, the restaurants they eat in, the way they travel, their world is a very energy-intense world with perfect lighting, perfect temperature control, huge staffs driving into work, commercial laundry services, elegant entertainment venues, and they don’t set up a tent and cook hamburgers at the local campground for vacations.
3 Billion people on the planet SUFFER from a lack of energy. Many must drag home a branch or gather dried animal dung if they want to have cooked food or boil water.
The Climate Alarmists are planning to save the planet by denying more energy to those already suffering.
The primary power green energy produces is government power it’s why the sudden urge before the 2024 election.
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