Posted on 01/19/2017 7:34:21 AM PST by Olog-hai
Hawaii has the most aggressive renewable energy targets in the nation, aiming for its utilities to get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2045.
Now advocates want to extend that goal to the transportation sector to urge all forms of ground transportation to fuel up using renewable sources by 2045.
“The majority of our fossil fuel goes into transportation, and that’s a challenge that we have to solve, and we currently don’t have a vision for what that future looks like,” said Jeff Mikulina, executive director of the Blue Planet Foundation, which is pushing the bill.
But Hawaii officials aren’t planning to make everyone get rid of their fuel-powered cars — at least not yet. …
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Already in place! Take your car down to the dealership and trade it in and get a new one!
Liberal loon state. It’s beauty is all that saves it.
Considering their location and the rate at which technology expands, I think a place like Hawaii could become 100% renewable eventually. I also think that a free market would be able to bring that reality with no government mandates.
Because the laws of physics and thermodynamics to not apply on Oahu...
What? We can’t legislate physics?
And there it is. In order for a few liberals in Shangri La to live out their wet dreams, the entirety of the United States should sacrifice.
This means they'll want regulation to force automakers to build a car they 'like' that has some modicum of efficiency they deem "renewable." Of course a massive subsidy and influx of tax dollars will be needed to realize it all. Give Hawaii back to whoever had it before.
So instead of a modern/efficient gas or oil-fired plant with 2 acre footprint - they’ll spend 20X more, to cover 2000 acres of beautiful mountain top or ocean with windmills, to get 20% of the energy, with far less reliability.
Leftists are evil.
Well, Jeff, I'll tell ya - in 2045 H1 will look just like it does now - full of combustion-engined vehicles moving residents, tourists and delivering your Kahlua.
Aloha!
Hawaii wants to go back to the good old days of relying on sailing ships for supplies?
They really will feel the isolation of being in the middle of the Pacific Ocean if they get their wish.
Hawaii has two oil refineries, I think.
Will they go dark ?
Maybe we should have let Wo Fat have Hawaii.
So Hawaii will return to bicycles, walking and land sailing for transportation....
Good luck with that.
What, they don’t have any horses or buggies in Hawai’i?
Liberals won, we are a nation and world of dumb$$s. Cultic "science" has completely destroyed real science.
Very interesting stance to take for a state that relies exclusively on ship-delivered fuel. Do those idiots think that tankers are sail-driven?
Hey bruddah! You go surf, da kine, Makapu eh!
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