| | | What's unbelievable is how ignorant both sides of the isle and literally all past and present administrations are as to never having an energy policy. Now we get to watch them duke it out on whose at fault in Texas. What is happening is the "Green Agenda" got way ahead of itself...funded by subsidies' the greenies can't STORE energy from wind and solar. BIG wake up call from this weather event as China Russia and rest of our enemies now see in full (as if they did'nt know already) how vulnerable the USA's grid is.
AOC’s take on Texas
Politicians are using the widespread power outages as fodder in the debate over whether the government should back massive investment in clean energy and infrastructure.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has blamed intermittent renewable power sources for the blackouts, while the state’s agriculture commissioner said on Facebook that no wind turbine should ever be built in the state again. Both are Republicans.
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fired back on Twitter, saying “the infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you don’t pursue a Green New Deal.”
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Vested interest or all in!
In poker when you go all in doesn't matter whether you have a hand or not-your all in.
Institutions will protect themselves always, institutions perpetuate themselves and the ultimate institution is the government. Governments get bigger and they continue to make laws and rules the logic why else do you need a government. Governments exist to govern it is what they do.
Governments are all in when it comes to green power. They are all in when it comes to the vilification of fossil fuels. Scientists are all in when it comes to the evils of fossil fuels. 90% of people younger than 40 are all in when it comes to the evils of fossil fuels.
There may be investigations and studies but the truth will never see the light of day.
Those of you expecting to see logic prevail and the government to initiate any changes in policy are dreaming. The government will never say.
We caused this when we subsidized windmills and solar it made more reliable forms of energy go out of business. Our subsidies caused coal generation to go out of business.
Our subsidies kept ngas fired generation from being built. If we had not provided the financial carrots and stick forcing the switch over from a more reliable form of power to one that relied on the wind blowing and the sun shinning this would not have happened.
If we had not made regulations that effectively put coal out of business this would not have happend. Regulation that caused between the years of 210 to 2019 290 coal plants to go out of business representing 40% of U.S Coal generating capacity. They will never say we have caused 26 nuclear power plants to be decommissioned and you know what it is going to get more unreliable with more nuclear plants to be decommissioned.
If you guys expect something like this to be the end result well your dreaming. The official result will be far different. They will blame it on the utilities-unreliable NGAS wells and pipes that froze. They will blame it on a polar vortex the greatest to hit the mid-west in a hundred years and they will double down on the green agenda.
I personally can't wait til Carlos Slim bids for one of Americas greatest energy assets on a BTU basis....Peabody Energy
Un-Greening: Mexico gives up on renewables, revives coal industry. Thanks to Pitec
Un-Greening: Mexico gives up on renewables, revives coal industry.
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Mexico, the eleventh biggest population on Earth,was all enthused about renewables a few years ago, but now they are actively winding back wind and solar and reactivating coal projects. Mines are being reopened, coal miners are being hired and the state owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has been told to buy electricity from its own coal generators before they buy electricity from the privately owned renewables generators.
López Obrador is called a populist, he talks of energy sovereignty, and speaks badly of predecessors who opened up the energy sector to foreign and private interests. He vowed to put ” at least 80% of the budget – into fossil fuels.””
Mexico was once a climate leader – now it’s betting big on coal
David Agren in San Juan de Sabinas, The Guardian
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as Amlo, has unveiled plans to buy nearly 2m tons of thermal coal from small producers like Rivera. He also plans to reactivate a pair of coal-fired plants on the Texas border, which were being wound down as natural gas and renewables took a more prominent role in Mexico’s energy mix.
Not only is López Obrador is betting big on fossil fuels, he is also curtailing clean energy.
The CFE’s current investment plan forgoes clean energy projects entirely. And a bill for overhauling the electricity industry that was recently sent to Congress would force the CFE to purchase power from its own facilities, including coal plants, before renewables.
Renewables were blamed for a blackout in December that hit 10 million people
The shift back to coal appears to have been accelerated by a mass blackout in December which left 10 million in the dark for a couple of hours. The electricity commission blames an excess of renewable energy.
The blackout started with a fire, but renewable energy was running at a peak of 28% and the system was too unstable to recover:
“In addition, the CFE noted that at that time there was a historical maximum of integration of renewable energy into the national system, of 28.13 percent of the total national energy, which affected the support of the system.
In a virtual press conference, Mario Morales Vielmas, CFE’s general director of Legacy Contract Intermediation, indicated that if renewable energies had not contributed so significantly to the system, the failure would have been isolated and dealt with in a different way.
Straight after that the hashtag #Venezuela started to trend — in reference to the infamous Venezuelan electricity grid. The Panam Post called it a “Massive Blackout” and warned that the Chavista Ghost Scared Mexicans.
A lot of this is about money and power. Mexico is the sixth-largest oil producer in the world.
But it shows yet another country that isn’t buying the fake forced energy transition and will be increasing emissions, while the last few patsy nations on Earth try to reduce theirs. If renewables were so cheap and wonderful why is Mexico going back to coal?
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