Posted on 06/07/2022 6:34:55 PM PDT by lightman
How is everyone enjoying our preview of the Green New Deal? As American families wake up every day to record gas prices, President Joe Biden continues to hit new lows in his approval rating. The situation has grown so dire that Ron Klain, the embattled White House chief of staff, checks the price at the pump first thing every morning.
For nearly a month, the United States has “welcomed” a new high gas price...every single day. This streak of failure so large, I actually thought it had to be some kind of record. So, when I reached out to AAA to try and find out if this is the longest streak of daily record-breaking gas prices, they kindly and quickly responded that they don’t know. They don’t track consecutive days of increases or decreases but noted “this has been a long run.” The result? Gas prices have doubled since Joe Biden took office and we’re not even halfway through his first term.
Unfortunately, the worst may lie ahead in the form of widespread blackouts. Think about it: as families all over the country sitting around the kitchen table trying to balance their budget, they may soon have added benefit of trying to do it in the dark.
We didn’t arrive here overnight. In 2015, extreme environmentalists cheered as then-President Obama and Vice President Biden brought plans that pushed Arizona and other states to more wind and solar. Just a few year later, they were beside themselves with joy as the largest coal power plant in the west was closed down in Arizona. Wind and solar were the future and they weren’t looking back! As it turns out, it took less than three years for reality to set in for Arizona and the rest of the country.
From the Southwest to the Midwest and back out to California, blackouts are real possibility this summer. One major reason is the environmental left and their war on affordable and reliable fossil fuels. Biden, along with his environmental supporters, are now all-too-quiet about the threat of not just one, but multiple summers of electrical blackouts.
It’s not that the President Biden and his green agenda supporters don’t know these blackouts are in the future – it’s that they just don’t care. As we’ve seen from the baby formula shortage and the pain at the pump, the Biden Administration’s modus operandi is to ignore the problem until it’s too big and then deflect blame. Don’t be surprised if you see a #PutinsBlackouts hashtag in the next few months.
When it comes to crisis delivered by their failed energy agenda: the pain is the point. They want gas prices to hurt so bad because they actually believe you will suddenly find $60,000 or more for an electric car. Then it should come as no surprise that when temperatures are in triple-digits and the electricity goes out, their callous response will be, “We should’ve embraced a carbon-free grid faster!” Keep in mind, the lights won’t flicker at the White House, just your house.
Let’s be clear, the first 18 months of the Biden Administration is America’s taste of life under the Green New Deal. Record gas prices, once-in-a-generation inflation and the real possibility of blackouts. It is also a trial run for how pushers of this radical agenda will react when our families start feeling the pain. So far, it looks like the best they can do is respond with callous detachment.
It’s not noteworthy that Biden’s Chief of Staff checks the price of gas every morning. It’s noteworthy that he, his boss and their green choir know how much you’re struggling, and they immediately go back to work to keep forcing their failure.
The pain is the point of Joe Biden’s energy agenda, and it doesn’t matter who gets hurt. If our current crisis is the preview of the Green New Deal, let’s all walk out before the main attraction. We’ll have our chance in November.
Larry Behrens is the Communications Director for Power The Future, a non-profit that advocates for America’s energy workers. You can find him on Twitter @larrybehrens or you can email him: larry@powerthefuture.com
”Green” on the outside
but RED on the inside!
More electric cars just means more strain on the electrical grid which means more blackouts.
Once again, as with vaccines, the proposed solution is intended to make the problem worse, not better.
American Blackout
National Geographic
By September we will be hearing about how the term “blackout” be rasiss.
I have been laying in all manner of solar power gear and lots of food supplies and sundries...
Building from scratch, getting more than I really need...just in case.
My goal is to be able to always power the following..
-electric blanket
-small microwave
-small window air unit
-fans
-various computers
-hot-air rework station for an hr a day
-ham gear
-lights of course
-a hot plate so I can make stir-fry
-a good size DC refrigerator and a freezer
When the balloon goes up I want a warm blanket, a cold drink, a hot meal, a cool night..even in July, microwave popcorn, a roundtable on 75mtrs, starlink internet and a PC....
But electric cars are magic! /super-sarc
Just ask post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
Michigan Democrat Sen. Debbie Stabenow Brags That She Passed “Every Single Gas Station” in Her Brand New Electric Vehicle and ‘It Didn’t Matter How High Gas Was’ (VIDEO) (6.7.22)
Also, Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Insights welcome.
We installed a 26 kW generator last November mainly for winter blackouts when trees fall on lines in big storms. But it may be even more handing for the summer blackouts. Of course, that is assuming that the natural gas supply holds up, but that is going to be more reliable than the electrical power supply for the next few years.
26 kW will keep all the lights on, the oven running, the AC on, and the electric dryer going plus other miscellaneous loads.
Hmmm...who will be punished and forced to die in the summer sun? Could it possibly be Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska? Whatever do these places have in common?
They all have aardvarks? No, not that.
They all are kind of flat? Hm, no Illinois is flat.
They are all white? Well, no guess not that. Oklahoma has Native Americans.
They are Republican states? No, impossible, that’s like saying the US Census would screw up the results favoring only Democrat-leaning states.
What are you,, a conspiracy theorist?
The Green Fraud Deal 🤪
We’ll end up as the GreenFraud Dead.
I abandoned the idea of running a dryer on solar and settled for running the washer...I can hang stuff up..
I also decided to buy a pile of scrub-suits. Easy to wash and dry, both daywear and nightwear, cheap at 18 bucks a set... got a few sets in black, for recon you see...lol
The past few years we read headlines that the corrupt government of California is fine with blackouts if the grid can’t be upgraded due to the phony man-made climate change myth. And thousands of new cell towers and EV charging stations are being added by the month. On windmill farm and solar panel electricity that cannot cope with this.
Does anyone know how the citizens of CA liked it? The rest of the country hopefully won’t all follow CA but I’m just wondering how it worked out.
We have to get the story out: Climate change is not man-made climate change. That is the key to fighting this BS.
Otherwise the wimps say “Don’t you care about stranded polar bears on floating ice?”
You have a nice minimalist list. I am curious about the hot-air rework station, though. I think I would rather have a hot water heater.
The irony is that all of us with the means to have an off grid capable solar power system will be just fine. The only way I would know the Texas grid was down is my auto transfer switch would trip and I would stop exporting power during the day. At night my power banks would go from their usual overnight charge mode to deletion mode. The government can’t turn off solar panels on your roof of in the back 20 acres and that’s a fact. It’s crazy to me that independently minded people hate on roof top solar even if you don’t go fully off grid it will cut your power usage by half or more. Over the last few years solar has been so cheap that for under $4000 in panel costs one could do a self or semi self install and go grid free and that’s for a huge 16,000+ watt system. Inverters have been around 20 cents per watt for a few years too. Makes zero sense but then again people get blinded by politics and not reality. The international energy agency has mountains data that shows local solar is the cheapest energy humans have come up with in our entire history. Google it I don’t do a the leg work for lazy boomers.
Can you provide a link to the IEA study?
>>Of course, that is assuming that the natural gas supply holds up,<<
Are you relying on a natural gas supplier with a meter on your home? If so, it’s not reliable.
The greenie weenies within this administration are trying to shut down natural gas.
https://energy.wisc.edu/news/solar-now-cheapest-electricity-history-confirms-iea
Link is embedded it’s 400+ pages of nerdy goodness.
Bookmark.
They shut down the Navajo power plant. The largest coal fired power plant in the West.
I had its own coal mine and railroad to deliver the coal to the plant.
It provided lots of jobs for the Navajo and Hopi tribes. Now they are trying to retrain them to IT?!
I remember it provided 80% of income for the Hopi tribe and 50% (or30%)? of income for the Navajos.
It also costs a lot money to destroy it. Unfortunately, it is gone now.
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