from Moonbattery:
According to the media/Democrats, we have undertaken a noble yet inevitable transition from fossil fuels to wind and solar, for which no price is too high to pay. But the ballyhooed transition will not happen this year or next. It won’t happen ever:
Globally, we spent almost $2 trillion in 2023 to try to force an energy transition.
Thanks to extravagant (not to mention corrupt) subsidies, solar/wind use has risen.
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But that hasn’t reduced fossil-fuel use, which increased even more over the same period.
For a transition to actually happen, the new source of energy would have to be better or cheaper than the old. Yet fossil fuels are not only less expensive but superior to wind and solar at everything except complying with liberal ideology.
An energy transition would require far greater subsidies for solar and wind, as well as batteries and hydrogen. We would have to accept less-efficient technologies for important needs like steel and fertilizers. Politicians would have to impose massive taxes on fossil fuels to make them less desirable. McKinsey & Co. estimates that achieving a real transition would cost more than $5 trillion annually. This splurge would slow economic growth, making the real cost five times as high. For rich-world voters, the annual cost could be more than $13,000 a person, according to energy researcher Vaclav Smil.
This is in exchange for exactly zero benefit, unless you believe John Kerry types that the weather would be nicer.
The average Democrat voter may be that gullible. But climate ideology aside, no informed person could expect wind/solar to generate more than a fraction of the energy provided by more efficient and reliable fossil fuels.
To impose a complete green energy transition would result in the collapse of the economy and death by starvation of most Americans. Considering how much the leftists controlling the media and the Democratic Party hate us, maybe that’s the plan.
