[Gen.Blather]

A couple of thoughts. The entire Green Transition is about destroying the US economy and reducing us to poverty, so we’ll accept communism. (Notice none of the strident “Green” voices are attacking China or India or Russia.) The other thought is, suppose you did eliminate the need for oil generated power for some significant percentage of your requirement. This means the economic incentive to invest in, maintain and operate the oil burring capacity necessary will become unsustainable as the fixed costs don’t go away when you’re not using them. Personnel and trucks for example. Therefore, the truly necessary generation capacity will not be there when needed. Remember, that oil burning capacity has to be maintained at 100% even if it only used 15% of the time.

[Tell It Right]

True that. IMHO, the only situation where solar and/or wind power for the grid makes sense is if a country can’t produce it’s own coal or natural gas. I can see a country wanting to reduce its dependency on energy imports. I wish we had more of that mentality.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It has been established that a lot of environmental agitation in the 1970's, including opposition to nuclear power, was abetted by the KGB. The Russians could not believe there luck. The useful idiots were lobbying to destroy Western countries' economies. These days the Chinese are in on the game, funding universities that support DEI and environmental extremism, while merrily annihilating minorities in their own country and building one new coal fired power plant a week.