The good news about
the Green New Deal (GND)
is that it allows voters
to determine
that some candidates
are too stupid to be
a good president !
Too stupid would be
anyone who favors
the Green Bad Deal,
that in a dozen years,
would eliminate fuels
needed for US cars,
trucks, tractors,
airplanes, diesel trains,
lawnmowers, snowmobiles,
electric power plants
using coal or natural gas,
and home heating systems
burning oil and natural gas.
Send them all to the garbage dump !
The GND sounds like
a devious plan developed
by a junior high student
in Iran, or North Korea,
whose goal was to destroy
the US economy !
Of course we all need
food, clothing and shelter.
All three require energy.
That may make energy
our most important resource.
You'd never know it
from the leftist fantasies
of a "Green New Deal",
an infeasible,
incredibly expensive,
economic experiment,
to "fight" beneficial
CO2 emissions
... which real science
sees as a net benefit
- 'greening' our planet ,
and accelerating
growth of C3 plants
used for food by
humans and animals !
Hopefully Dumbocrats
will not get much support,
but then relatively
intelligent Germans
in the 1930s, were
somehow convinced
that Jewish Germans,
a relatively hard working
and low crime rate minority,
were actually evil.
With that sad history in mind,
fools in the US are being
convinced that CO2,
the staff of life, is evil,
is spite of the facts:
We've had only good news
from the past 20,000 years
of climate change,
starting with Chicago
and Detroit under glaciers,
and recently, since 2003,
we've had a major slowdown
of global warming.
Basing an analysis
of CO2 costs and benefits
on geological evidence,
and temperature data
is real science.
Leftists seem to prefer
scary wild guess
predictions of
the future climate,
that are always wrong !
Cheap energy made
industrial economies
prosperous.
Energy alone doesn't
create prosperity,
but is necessary
to operate a factory,
run a store, grow crops,
and deliver goods.
Energy is important
for economic growth
because production
depends on capital,
labor, and energy.
Fossil fuels provide
81% of the primary energy
consumed in the world.
There's a close relationship
between the cost of energy
and gross domestic product.
There's also
a statistically valid
relationship between
electricity consumption
and economic growth.
Abundant, affordable energy
enables economic growth.
And a huge increase
in energy supply
will be required
to meet increased
energy demands
from population growth,
and to lift poor nations
out of poverty.
The Green New Deal
will hurt poor nations,
by destroying the economies
of rich nations, who are now
able to afford to send them
free food and medicine.
Almost all economists agree
that higher energy prices
reduce economic activity.
If the price of energy goes up,
almost everything costs more,
so either prices are raised,
or profit margins go down.
If energy gets
more expensive here,
we would manufacture
fewer goods here,
and import more
manufactured goods.
That just "off-shores"
CO2 emissions,
but doesn't reduce them
( if CO2 concerns you ).
A shortage of energy
would halt production
in portions of our economy.