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Posted on 09/26/2019 4:56:07 AM PDT by The Houston Courant
Hope you have an extra $12,000 in your checking account.
That’s how much the Green New Deal could increase the average Texas households’ annual electricity bills, according to new research unveiled by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF). An in-depth analysis of Texas electric utility data shows that transitioning Texas to 100% wind and solar electricity generation by 2030 would cause yearly costs to increase nearly tenfold.
For a resolution that claims to fight economic injustice as well as climate change, the Green New Deal isn’t much of a deal after all.
TPPF researchers found that if the Green New Deal’s renewable energy directive was fully implemented by 2030, the annual cost of powering Texas would rise from $13 billion today to a whopping $120 billion.
Of course, $120 billion is an unthinkable, almost laughable, burden to saddle the people of Texas with. But unfortunately, champions of the Green New Deal are deadly serious.
Getting renewables from 8% to 100% of our electric generation nationwide isn’t a problem of politics, but of scale and physics. Even a partial switch to renewables would be prohibitively expensive. Transitioning Texas to just 50% wind and solar by 2030—a relatively modest increase, given that we are the number one state for renewable generation—would cause annual costs to rise by 250%.
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You can post your blog junk right here in full.
Get a job.
Great to see this analysis, thanks for posting.
This increase in price may be only part of the problem. Doing away with conventional sources of energy could mean NO energy at certain times.
Silly Texans... you gotta look at the BIG picture. Look how much “free stuff” you’re gonna get for that $12,000! #FeelTheBern!
Don’t forget they wil come for your guns first.
Yes, excellent information. Thanks.
BTTT and ping!
The Green New Deal would destroy Texas’ economy.
In addition to that, the Democrats want to grab their guns and throw open the borders. Any Texan who votes for that has rocks in their head.
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