What hyper-Warmist Chris Mooney fails to mention is that all the elites will continue to fly their fossil fueled jets, cruise in their fossil fueled yachts, and drive in their fossil fueled limos while living in their mega-mansions with their manicured lawns while eating expensive, imported food, all while the non-elites will suffer
The year is 2050, and everything in your home — perhaps in your entire life — is electric.
Your car runs on battery power. Your home heating runs through a highly efficient heat-pump system that has long since replaced the gas furnace. Not even the burners on your stove produce combustion or flames any longer.
And all of it is powered by an array of solar and sometimes distant wind installations, which route electricity across the country thanks to a gargantuan network of power lines that triples the scale of the United States’ current transmission infrastructure. You see them — the panels, the turbines, the lines — everywhere you drive, everywhere you go.
By 2050, in President-elect Joe Biden’s vision of the country — even more ambitious than what the Obama administration proposed — the United States would no longer be putting greenhouse gases into the air. And for that to happen, it is likely that our world would have to look a lot like what was just described.
And what, exactly, is the cost of all this? What’s the cost of that heat-pump system? Unless you can afford almost $40k and up for a vehicle, you won’t be driving. You can essentially kiss goodbye all those in the gig-economy doing deliveries and rides, because they won’t be able to afford those vehicles. Perhaps we’ll all be taking long commutes on battery powered scooters, or those little electric vehicles like they make tourists use in Bermuda.
Of course, unemployment will be sky high, so, a huge percentage won’t have to worry about going to work. Huge sectors of the economy will be put out of work, some forcibly.
In Joe’s World all those suburban and rural areas will be forced to slap up wind turbines and solar farms all over, ruining property values and destroying the landscape. Warmists, of course, do not want this stuff near them and ruining their views.
That is the gist of what an extremely detailed study from energy experts at Princeton University describes in 344 exacting slides outlining what it would take for the United States to be “net zero†in 30 years — meaning any remaining greenhouse gas emissions would be offset by subtractions through forests, agriculture or perhaps directly sucking carbon from the air.
“The costs are affordable, the tool kit is there, but the scale of transformation across the country is significant,†said Jesse Jenkins, a Princeton professor and one of three leaders of the study, along with the university’s Eric Larson and Christopher Greig. “This is a major national undertaking that will only happen if we have the right national commitment.â€
So, let me ask: what if 49% of us do not want to participate with this? Will we be force? What say those who are Believers start by changing their own life? What about China Joe and his people, oh, and the Washington Post, start using pure electric vehicles for their operations?
And hands will be tied not only by national politics, Tierney noted. There could be all kinds of “friction†that energy system modelers say they’re not able to include in their scenarios, she said: Legal issues. Permitting issues. Changes in consumer behavior, or resistance to changes. People wanting to keep their gas burners on their stoves, for instance, or not wanting to buy an electric car.
You will not be allowed a choice, Comrades.
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