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Bernie's climate play: A federal takeover of electricity production. Sanders wants federally owned utilities to build massive amounts of wind and solar to compete with private generators
Politico ^ | February 2, 2020 | Gavin Bade

Posted on 02/02/2020 5:58:30 AM PST by karpov

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To: karpov

Total Communist


21 posted on 02/02/2020 7:05:06 AM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: sphinx

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bADTlEo0Y30


22 posted on 02/02/2020 7:14:34 AM PST by 1066AD
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To: AndyJackson

23 posted on 02/02/2020 7:18:37 AM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: karpov

Is anyone keeping track of how much all his schemes will cost the American taxpayer?


24 posted on 02/02/2020 7:25:48 AM PST by AlaskaErik
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To: karpov

More hydropower seems nifty to someone who don’t mind displacing millions of people from their homes, disrupting ecosystems, annihilating numerous species, creating massive humidity zones that change regional weather, disrupting transport routes, etc. But communists don’t care about things like that.


25 posted on 02/02/2020 7:38:10 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Stevenfo

I believe that a fundamental issue common among Leftists in particular is that they simply do not understand complex systems that will tend to experience diminishing returns the harder you push on them trying to get them to do their thing.

This is true if it’s failing to understand how pilot programs are not representative of real programs — if only because there can be a significant difference between doing something vs nothing, never mind that pilot programs are often staffed by the more competent, creative and motivated, have organizational flexibility etc — or failing to understand how some farmer’s cheap windmill doing good work doesn’t translate over to a huge and expensive wind farms everywhere where once his farm was.

Failing to understand complex systems they feel no twinge of awareness when they constantly push ever more complex “solutions”.


26 posted on 02/02/2020 7:38:45 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: AndyJackson

His head has disappeared up his own butt ... how would he know it’s sunny out?


27 posted on 02/02/2020 7:39:58 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Victor

See BS Sunday morning covered the democRAT candidates;
Biden, buttplug, grandpa Sanders, liawatha, klaubucher. What a group of idiots. I laughed at the entire skit. One of those goofballs is going to beat Trump?
Ha haa no friggin way.
Bernie is so frail I’m not sure how he pulls up his Depends. Biden is just senile. His “look”, before every statement is annoying, and someone please tell him he is not a tough guy!
I’ll poke your eye out greybeaver is a joke, and who is going to vote for that guy to be the first gay wife?
Pardon the language but what a bunch of dumbasses!


28 posted on 02/02/2020 7:57:34 AM PST by 9422WMR
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To: karpov

While I personally am sympathetic to solar especially and some wind power, as backups to our more reliable traditional sources, we have to recognize just how corrupt and wasteful - As well as often just plain incompetent -, government often is. The more these things can be done in the “free market” the better, imho .


29 posted on 02/02/2020 8:21:17 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE).)
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To: karpov

Bernie be nuts.


30 posted on 02/02/2020 8:27:14 AM PST by OKSooner (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: karpov
Because the state, run by political hacks who could not make it in the private sector, can do everything better than private companies can.

31 posted on 02/02/2020 8:33:36 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: karpov

Bookmark


32 posted on 02/02/2020 8:41:53 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: The Great RJ

There isn’t enough land in the US . . . Sun doesn’t shine . . .
= = =

So we need to take over Iran and fill it with windmills and solar panels, and a install little bit of extension cord.

Now, that makes more sense than any of Bernie’s plans.


33 posted on 02/02/2020 8:50:42 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: mountainlion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_blackouts


34 posted on 02/02/2020 8:53:51 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: karpov

Better stock up on candles!


35 posted on 02/02/2020 8:57:22 AM PST by CFW
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To: Stevenfo

Reality is not part of their plan.


36 posted on 02/02/2020 9:12:33 AM PST by Oldexpat (Stand strong VA.)
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To: karpov

OMG


37 posted on 02/02/2020 9:22:34 AM PST by sauropod (If women are upset at TrumpÂ’s naughty words, who bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Grey?)
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To: Chewbarkah

No, sorry, hydropower is out. Greenies want to tear down the dams we have now so the fish and the rivers can run free. Surprised Bernie hasn’t gotten the memo.


38 posted on 02/02/2020 9:27:59 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: karpov

Nationalized electricity and electric cars, what could wrong with that.
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39 posted on 02/02/2020 9:36:45 AM PST by FreeReign ("Please sit down, resume your seats, put your flags away - youÂ’re leaving - and take them with you.)
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To: karpov

Remind us all of what Solydra cost the US taxpayers.


40 posted on 02/02/2020 9:38:59 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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