Democrats want to waste money on wind and solar and fine real energy

 Seth Grossman:

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The premise of both bills is that by enjoying safe and comfortable lifestyles, we are causing floods, fires, and droughts that are ruining the planet.  They say this is because we are burning too much fossil fuel.  The goal of both bills is to cut America’s fossil fuel use in half during the next nine years.  If these bills become law, the federal government will heavily fine every power company that does not systematically shut down most of its coal, oil, and natural gas power plants by then.  It would also pay billions as bribes to companies to build and use new solar panels and wind turbines instead.

The federal government would also pay people, businesses, and schools to buy electric cars, trucks, and buses. It would also pay for more solar panels.

This would permanently end prosperity in America.  Solar panels and wind turbines cannot power a modern economy.  The electricity they generate is too weak, intermittent, unpredictable, and unreliable. Solar and wind energy is often wasted. It cannot be stored when not needed.  It saves little if any fossil fuel.  That is because backup generators must always be running to give the grid steady power whenever the wind stops, night falls, or a cloud goes by.

Nuclear power plants are a reliable, cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels.   They provide 71% of the electricity in France.  Of course, neither bill promotes new nuclear power plants. 

If both bills pass, power companies will be in an impossible situation.  If they keep fossil fuel plants to provide reliable power, they will pay big fines and pass that cost to their customers.  Everything we buy will then cost more.  If power companies comply and rely on unreliable solar panels and wind turbines, frequent power failures will become normal.    

People with electric cars, trucks, and buses will often find it difficult or impossible to charge them.  As in the days before railroads and steamships, every long trip will be difficult and uncertain.

Americans will again walk or ride horses or bicycles in the heat, the cold, and the rain. Homes, schools, and businesses will again be cold in the winter and hot in the summer.  The comfortable, middle-class American Dream will be gone for all but the rich.

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Democrats have sold out to Big Green and they want the rest of us to pay the exorbitant cost of that sellout because of their paranoid fears of "climate change."   In the real world, their projections of global warming have been serially wrong for decades.  The poles are not ice-free and New York City is still not underwater.  In fact, the South pole just set a new record for low tempteratures.