Expensive Green New Deal

 

The election is a referendum on the Green New Deal.  If fracking is outlawed, natural gas prices will triple, and gasoline prices will double or triple.  Do people really want to vote for $4.50 a gallon gasoline?  About 87% of US electricity generation isn't renewable.  About 63% is fossil fuels.  Do you really believe we can scrap and replace 63%, or 87%, of US electricity generation withing 15 years?  It would be impossibly expensive.

The US has gradually substituted natural gas for coal in electricity generation, based on fracking natural gas.  As a result, the US is the only major economic power to have declining CO2 emissions since the Kyoto Agreement.  Outlawing fracking will force us back to coal, or turn the lights off in the US.

Renewable energy is intermittent.  There are times when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow.  At the moment, the technology for storing energy from renewable sources to fill in for when they are not generating is both inefficient and prohibitively expensive.  The end result of strong ideology and weak engineering is California rolling blackouts.

The US is the only country that has met its goals for reducing carbon emissions.  The US did this by switching from coal to natural gas for electricity generation.  The increase in natural gas came from fracking.  The Green New Deal eliminates fracking.

The Green New Deal will outlaw gasoline cars.  Less than 1% of US cars are battery driven now.  It will take a tremendous amount of investment to switch from gas stations to electric charging stations.California and New York already have versions of the Green New Deal.  Democrats have a history of running as moderates then switching to their real progressive positions once elected.  Leftists try to block every pipeline they can.

The bottom line is that you're smoking wacky tobaccy if you believe that Democrats won't implement major parts of the Green New Deal if elected. 

Do you expect the woke to be rational about their goals?  They have shown they have no rationality when it comes to canceling anyone who deviates even slightly from their ideology.  Do you think women are people who menstruate?  Wrong and unwoke!