Posted on 08/24/2024 10:07:47 PM PDT by CFW
At a recent town hall meeting in Jackson, Wyoming, Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., offered a simple proposal. If Boulder, Colorado, truly believes that fossil fuels are so destructive, why not prove that life is better without them by giving them up?
Anti-fossil fuel crusaders and renewable energy proponents have been unsuccessful in producing a demonstration project in which a small town powers its electricity grid entirely on wind, solar and batteries for at least one year. The idea of such a project was first proposed by Francis Menton, who publishes the “Manhattan Contrarian.” If we’re investing trillions of dollars on this energy transition, Menton asks, shouldn’t we prove it will actually work?
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Boulder, a progressive Colorado town of just over 100,000 residents, is known for its hostility to oil and gas. The town filed one of the first climate suits against oil companies in the nation. As with many of these claims, the Boulder lawsuit alleges ExxonMobil and Suncor knew for decades that burning fossil fuels would lead to climate change but concealed this knowledge from consumers.
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“If they want to transition 330 million people to a non-fossil fuel future, how about it starts small? How about we start with a pilot project like Boulder, Colorado? Let’s take out all their gas stations, let’s take out all their gas stoves, all their water heaters, all the pavement and return them to dirt roads, right?” Hageman said. Asphalt is made with petroleum.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
“Despite fervent plans to eliminate all use of fossil fuels in a very short timeframe, Boulder City Councilman Mark Wallach told Wyofile that he’s not behind Hageman’s proposal.
“Nobody on the Boulder Council suggested we can do without all the fossil fuels at this point. We make efforts to do better — to recognize that climate change is real and we do things we can do to combat it,” Wallach said.
How the councilman believes that Hageman’s “ridiculous” proposal will become completely reasonable in six years is unclear. The town’s net zero goals don’t call for Boulder to “do better” and “recognize that climate change is real” as Wallach stated. They call for the elimination of all energy derived from oil, gas and coal by no later than 2040. None of the members of the Boulder City Council or its mayor responded to requests for comment on this story asking if they’d support Hageman’s proposal or how they thought what isn’t possible now would become possible in six years. “
Back in college I had the bumper sticker. Ban Mining. Let the Bastards Freeze in the Dark.
Ping
+1
Great grandson of a PA coal miner.
even climate alarmists at RenewEconomy are having to admit the failures:
25 Aug: RenewEconomy: Second turbine blade failure hits world’s largest offshore wind farm, in fresh blow to GE Vernova
by Sophie Vorrath
A wind turbine blade failure been reported at the site of what will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the first phase of the massive 3.6GW Dogger Bank project in the North Sea off the coast of the UK...
The incident marks the second blade failure for Dogger Bank A, after an incident at the beginning of May. For GE Vernova, it is the third incident in a matter of months involving of company’s Haliade-X turbines, including the failure and detachment of a blade at the 800MW Vineyard Wind project – the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm to be built in the United States...
China’s Goldwind has had a 16MW turbine in operation since the end of last year and fellow China outfit Mingyang last month completed construction of a 16.6MW twin-rotor floating wind turbine platform dubbed OceanX...
In January 2023, Siemens Gamesa revealed that faulty components had blown a €472 million hole in its December quarterly result, and in June adjusted up the bill to fix its troubled wind division to more than €1 billion ($1.6 billion), as it scrambled to get on top of high turbine failure rates.
By November of last year, the German government had agreed to bail the energy giant out to the tune of €7.5 billion as part of a larger €15 billion package designed to help the company overcome ongoing turmoil in its wind turbine unit.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/second-turbine-blade-failure-hits-worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-in-fresh-blow-to-ge-vernova/
I was skeptical about Harriet Hageman when she ran for congress. She’s been a pleasant surprise.
The elimination of fossil fuels should be considered a direct threat to the survival of you & your family.
“This is a great idea! Boulder, you go first!”
Yeah. Isn’t there slogan “Act locally, think Globally”?
I never doubted Hageman after seeing her debate Lez Cheney. She’s the real deal. She’s someone that Trump should consider for his administration.
My thoughts exactly.
I agree.
Of course it won’t work. It’s not supposed to work. It’s supposed to centralized power over peasants.
The right just needs to say “fossil fuels will eventually be eliminated, but we need to go a few decades to find the efficient technology that will replace it, because renewables are too ineffective and inefficient to do that, and they’re harmful to the environment.”
When I read the title and it just mentioned “a Colorado City,” I immediately said to myself “Boulder.”
It's called 4 seasons that change every 3 months...and has since before Adam & Eve.
Leftists are so anti-science they make up their own $cience reality.
I am no where near Wyoming, but when I first saw her, I, shamefully, thought she was a KOOK.
I was sooooo wrong...SHE IS THE MOST INTELLIGENT, ARTICULATE, THOUGHTFUL CONGRESSWOMAN I HAVE EVER LISTENED TO.
Her taste in hairdos and jewelry are a little excentric, but SHE IS A GEM.
I wish she were my rep.
A marvelous change from Cheyney.
Let it be known that those politicians and thier lemmings who oppose fossil fuel thier a##es will be warm while you and your families a## will freeze
“I was skeptical about Harriet Hageman when she ran for congress.”
I was hoping that she might be a candidate for VP.
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