Bai-Den to Germanize US Energy. That's Bad

Bai-Den (yes, a good Red inside with a green shell outside) intends to make the US a clone of Germany in the energy area.

That's not just bad.  That's a catastrophe for this country's citizens.

Here's what's happened in Germany--so far.

...At the turn of the millennium, Germany’s electricity was around 30 percent nuclear-powered. But Germany has been sacking its reliable, inexpensive nuclear plants. (Thunberg called nuclear power “extremely dangerous, expensive, and time-consuming” despite the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change deeming it necessary and every major scientific review deeming nuclear the safest way to make reliable power.)

By 2020, Germany had reduced its nuclear share from 30 percent to 11 percent. Then, on the last day of 2021, Germany shut down half of its remaining six nuclear reactors. The other three are slated for shutdown at the end of this year. (Compare this to nextdoor France, which fulfills 70 percent of its electricity needs with carbon-free nuclear plants.)

Germany has also spent lavishly on weather-dependent renewables—to the tune of $36 billion a year—mainly solar panels and industrial wind turbines. But those have their problems. Solar panels have to go somewhere, and a solar plant in Europe needs 400 to 800 times more land than natural gas or nuclear plants to make the same amount of power. Farmland has to be cut apart to host solar. And solar energy is getting cheaper these days mainly because Europe’s supply of solar panels is produced by slave labor in concentration camps as part of China’s genocide against Uighur Muslims.

The upshot here is that you can’t spend enough on climate initiatives to fix things if you ignore nuclear and gas. Between 2015 and 2025, Germany’s efforts to green its energy production will have cost $580 billion. Yet despite this enormous investment, German electricity still costs 50 percent more than nuclear-friendly France’s, and generating it produces eight times more carbon emissions per unit. Plus, Germany is getting over a third of its energy from Russia....

Bai-Den has already lurched into the process of de-fueling America.  You may have noticed the enormous, steep, and not-yet-ended jump in the price of gasoline and diesel?  Wait until you see your property tax increase next year to pay for your city's/county's/school-bus fuel increases--and asphalt.

Cancel your vacay and start buying the cheap canned goods.  Get some firewood so you can cook your meals.  

Don't believe me?  Then why are GM and Ford racing to put out more EV's?  They've been told.  Nothing direct, of course--but they're not stupid.

By the way, the air in the US is the cleanest it's been since 1920 or so.  Not so in China, India, and Russia, who will be the economic powers of this century if Bai-Den and puts that Green Weenie where he wants to:  right up your ass.