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Wind and solar are both terrible methods of generating electricity, both expensive and unreliable. The one thing that can make the situation worse is the drive to electrify everything, including motor vehicles. The impracticality of this “green” vision has become blindingly obvious, and the “green” movement has begun to fall apart. Steve noted this afternoon the collapsing share prices of renewable energy companies. Here are some more indications that the “green” movement is spiraling downward: From the Telegraph: “Electricity prices ‘must rise by 70pc to pay for more wind farms.’” No new wind farms will be built off Britain’s shores...

While this post may specifically concern Australia, the intent can be carried across to any Country where radical Greens Party politics gains a foothold. Those Greens Party politicians have just gained effective control of the Australian Senate, and at every turn they will seek to impose their agenda on all legislation and attempt to introduce their own legislation on their favourite agendas, a Tax on CO2 emissions foremost among them, a tax that is huge and will ultimately be passed directly on to consumers of electrical power, all of us.

For conservatives who would like to think the whole government should be handed over to the liberals for a few years until the Reagan wing of the Republican Party can get its act together, a quick look at a monstrosity under consideration by Congress is in order. Liberal Democrats and "green" Republicans are proposing a massive reorganization of the American economy to fight so-called global warming. Worse yet, proponents of this bill are attempting to sell this eco-socialism as a "market-based" policy, and their allies in the national media are going along with the charade.