| | | Leftists should rejoice at Trump’s decision to pause offshore wind leases
By Chris Talgo
The recent decision by President Trump to pause “effective immediately -- the leases for all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in the United States” should be celebrated as a modern-day Christmas miracle by leftists.
It should bring overwhelming feelings of joy to those who care deeply about the majestic whales and other sea creatures that lurk in the coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean off America’s East Coast. Hallelujah, many whales will be saved.
It should bring relief to democratic socialists across New York City concerned about the affordability crisis and the exorbitant cost of electricity in states like New York and her neighbors.
It should bring hope to those who care about the pristine lands that would be destroyed by the thousands of miles of new transmission lines necessary to deliver inefficient and unaffordable electricity from enormous eyesores that would litter the beautiful, picturesque Eastern Seaboard.
It should bring gratitude to leftist virtue signalers and social justice warriors because gargantuan windmills produced with slave labor at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party will no longer taint their moral compass.
Yes, in a normal world, leftists from Maine to Maryland would unite and rejoice at Trump’s bold move and congratulate him for opposing the sinister power and influence of the green energy lobby.
However, we do not live in a sane world these days.
Unsurprisingly, the left-wing political machine, which uses the mainstream media as a potent means of spreading propaganda, has spun Trump’s decision to halt the leases as “ incredibly reckless,” “ threatening thousands of jobs and cheaper energy.” These so-called journalists at Politico and CNN are misleading the public, wittingly or unwittingly. Shame on them.
In general, the media response to Trump’s prudent decision to pause the leases has tilted decidedly to the negative. Often, it has been alluded to as an under-the-table favor to the fossil fuel industry without any credible evidence of course.
Rarely, if ever, does the legacy press present evidence that large-scale offshore wind farms carry significant tradeoffs.
Per usual, nitwit politicians are playing politics instead of extolling the potential advantages of the lease pause.
“The Trump administration will look for any excuse to continue its assault on clean energy -- and the thousands of good-paying jobs these projects bring -- but there is no credible justification for this stoppage,” declared New York governor Kathy Hochul.
Gov. Hochul needs to exit her Albany bubble and enter the real world, where New Yorkers are struggling to pay their utility bills because she and her predecessors unflinchingly embraced climate alarmism and unwisely chose to transition to unaffordable, unreliable, and unclean green energy.
Taking a giant step back, the time has come for an earnest national conversation about the need for abundant, affordable, reliable, and clean energy.
In the years to come, AI and data centers will require oodles of energy. As of now, intermittent electricity from wind turbines cannot supply the on-demand power delivered by conventional sources like natural gas and coal.
Even if one buys into the climate alarmist premise that carbon-dioxide emissions are bad for the planet, which is not even close to the full story, why not build zero-emissions nuclear power plants?
The answer is money. There is big money to be made in the solar panel and windmill business when the government is subsidizing your industry.
When supporters of big wind claim the cost of electricity from wind is lower than fossil fuels, they are lying by omission. Again, they are not telling the full story.
Notwithstanding the media and political backlash, President Trump is putting the interests of hard-working Americans first as he seeks to reduce the cost of energy across the country.
Perhaps that is why the leftists are so outraged. |
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