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The leftard science of unicorn farts
WestlinnDuck
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So, Governor Inslee and the Washington legislature want to decree that the Washington will have a carbon free electrical grid by 2030. No coal. No natural gas. So, in the winter, at night, when the wind doesn’t blow I guess freezing to death is just going to be the responsible choice for the citizens and illegal aliens living in Washington. If the Washington leftards were serious about this, then they would be supporting the construction of several nuclear plants to provide the base load electricity for those rare instances when it gets dark and when the wind doesn’t blow. But they won’t. It’s just pray to the green gaia goddess for carbon neutral unicorn farts. And yet our participant ribbon wearing leftards feel that the conservatives are anti-science.
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Political leaders in a college town in central Texas won wide praise from former Vice President Al Gore and the larger Green Movement when they decided to go “100 percent renewable” seven years ago. Now, however, they are on the defensive over electricity costs that have their residents paying more than $1,000 per household in higher electricity charges over the last four years.
That’s right - $1,219 per household in higher electricity costs for the 71,000 residents of Georgetown, Texas, all thanks to the decision of its Republican mayor, Dale Ross, to launch a bold plan to shift the city’s municipal utility to 100 percent renewable power in 2012 when he was on the city council.
In short order, Ross was elevated to celebrity status, appearing in scores of articles and videos, both at home and abroad. Al Gore made it a point to feature the Texas Republican mayor at renewable energy conferences as well. Ross was even featured in one of Gore’s documentaries.
But while Ross was being lauded far and wide, the residents of his town were paying a steep price. His decision to bet on renewables resulted in the city budget getting dinged by a total of $29.8 million in the four years from 2015 to 2018. Georgetown’s electric costs were $3.5 million over budget in 2015, ballooning to $6.3 million in 2016, the same year the mayor locked his municipal utility into 20- and 25-year wind and solar energy contracts to make good on his 100 percent renewable pledge.
By 2017, the mayor’s green gamble was undercut by the cheap natural gas prices brought about by the revolution in high-tech fracking. Power that year cost the city’s budget $9.5 million more than expected, rising to $10.5 million last year, according to budget documents reported by The Williamson County Sun.
Whether Mayor Ross and his colleagues on the Georgetown City Council were motivated by good intentions, political machinations, or mere vanity is unknown. What is known is that Georgetown’s municipal utility, an integral part of the city budget, is hemorrhaging red ink thanks to those long term renewable energy contracts.
Since I worry more about my pocket book, I'm always against total reliance on renewable energy.
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They care so much they price you out of electricity