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RENEWABLES VS. RELIABLES — SUMMER ENERGY DEMANDS
The Left’s obsession with “green” energy will likely cost us
dearly this summer.
LEWIS MORRIS / MAY 27, 2022
Much of the United States west of the Great Lakes can expect rolling
electrical blackouts this summer, according to a recent report by the
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The
independent regulatory authority monitors electrical grids in the
United States, Canada, and the Baja region of Mexico.
 
Heat and drought will obviously play a part, but the most significant
reasons for these predicted power disruptions are manmade. The lack of
power plants to meet demand, coupled with ongoing supply chain
disruptions in the power industry, will conspire to interrupt service
for millions of customers. And since energy blackouts don’t
discriminate, it’ll also lead to thousands of deaths among the
elderly and infirm.
 
John Moura, director of reliability assessment at NERC, told reporters
that the lack of reliable power plants is due to the “pace of our
grid transformation” being “out of sync.” We think he’s being
kind. It’s more likely that our grid transformation is a complete
fantasy pushed by the Left’s radical green agenda.
That agenda is supposedly about weaning us off fossil fuels while
converting to renewable sources of energy such as wind and solar. Of
course, making renewables the dominant source of energy in a country
this size isn’t possible with our current technology — and it may
never be. The numbers simply don’t add up. For example, it would
take a solar farm twice the size of California to meet the nation’s
current electricity needs. And where would all those solar cells with
their environmentally unfriendly components come from? China_._
 
But leftists aren’t waiting for technology or common sense to catch
up with their dream. They’ve already begun shutting down our fossil
fuel-fired power plants with complete disregard as to how to replace
the lost electrical output. On his first day in office, President Joe
Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline and numerous exploration and
drilling leases for oil and gas companies. At the federal and state
level, Democrats have been setting arbitrary target dates for carbon
neutrality, conversion to electric vehicles, and conversion to
renewable energy sources. They figure that by phasing out the dreaded
dinosaur juice, they’re demonstrating their commitment to the
environment and somehow proving that the green agenda is a success.
All this without actually going green.
 
New Mexico Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham was immensely
proud of herself for creating a “mini-Green New Deal” for her
state in 2019. Accordingly, coal-fired power plants were shut down
without any regard to how their electrical output would be replaced.
In February, PNM, the state’s power utility, announced that New
Mexico will likely experience blackouts this summer. What a shock. No
pun intended.
 
The cost of the green agenda is already higher than we should be
willing to pay. Soaring gas prices, inflation, and now an unreliable
energy grid and the thousands of deaths that will come with it are all
outcomes of the Left’s ruinous plan to save the environment and
thereby save us from ourselves.
 
But these aren’t painful trade-offs on the way toward an
energy-efficient Valhalla. There’s no such future in store for us,
because the Left can’t make it happen. All these empty promises
offer us is more misery — and given the ineptitude of the current
administration, we’ve had quite enough of that already.
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