What could possibly go wrong?
NY is introducing its own Green New Deal
As Washington debates the controversial Green New Deal, New York City is forging ahead with its own measures in a bid to curb climate change.
The city council will announce Thursday a batch of proposed legislation, dubbed the Climate Mobilization Act, that aim to curb carbon emissions in the country’s largest metropolis and would force landlords to cut emissions by 40 percent by 2030, according to HuffPost.
The most drastic measure would require landlords with buildings over 25,000 square feet to conduct retrofits like new windows and insulation that would make the building’s more energy efficient.
NYC has one of the largest carbon footprints in the world (this site ranks them #3). It is a city that depends on fossil fuels. Taxis, private vehicles, limos, buses, cop cars and fire trucks, ambulances, and all the trucks and ships which bring goods to and from the city. Think you can power all those skyscrapers with solar panels and wind turbines? Good luck.
And who will pay for all those retrofits? NYC is also one of the most expensive places to live: that will get worse. Who gets hurt the most? Certainly not the rich Warmists pushing this. And what happens with jobs? What happens when companies whose costs skyrocket leave, also taking their tax money with them?
Other measures in the act, which would be implemented by 2024, would require solar panels or plants to cover the roofs of some buildings, or install miniature wind turbines. A second batch of legislation, that is expected to be introduced in coming months, would require all school buses to be electric. [HuffPost]
Whelp, good luck with this, citizens of NYC. But, hey, you voted for this stuff. Now you can deal with the fallout.
