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Liberals and progressives don't live in reality, they are delusional. That's why Bernie Sanders can drool spittle while he shouts about climate change yet spend $700,000 on private jets to go nag people about it.
The newest stupid thing was carving out a highway in the middle of the Brazillian rainforest so that the rich people going to the climate conference can get there faster. You can't make these people up.
Back to the article, which the libs are (of course) dismissing without reading: the European have screwed themselves, big time:
European politicians pitched the continent’s green transition to voters as a win-win: Citizens would benefit from green jobs and cheap, abundant solar and wind energy alongside a sharp reduction in carbon emissions.
Nearly two decades on, the promise has largely proved costly for consumers and damaging for the economy.
Yep. How bad is it?
Germany now has the highest domestic electricity prices in the developed world, while the U.K. has the highest industrial electricity rates, according to a basket of 28 major economies analyzed by the International Energy Agency. Italy isn’t far behind. Average electricity prices for heavy industries in the European Union remain roughly twice those in the U.S. and 50% above China. Energy prices have also grown more volatile as the share of renewables increased.
They have PILEDRIVEN their heavy industry. Ireland stopped all data center construction. That means not only are they not participating in the AI boom, they're not able to participate in the cloud economy because they lack the raw electricity.
“You can’t afford, in top global competition, to be ideologically driven in the way you decide the energy system,” said Ebba Busch, Sweden’s deputy prime minister and energy minister. Busch has criticized Germany for relying too heavily on solar and wind power, which means it sucks up energy from nearby countries on dull days, driving up prices.
“Without energy we have no industry, and without industry we have no defense,” she said.
Wow. Who knew that a key component of standing up to Putin was abundant energy? Seems I've read that somewhere before.
And the dummies also messed up the rollout:
Europe has pursued a different strategy in its green transition than any other region. The U.S., China, India, Brazil and others took an “and” strategy: They are aggressively rolling out renewables and simultaneously building fossil-fuel power plants on a grand scale.
Europe largely took an “or” strategy: It raced to replace fossil fuels with solar, wind and biomass by taxing carbon heavily, subsidizing renewables and closing scores of fossil-fuel power plants.
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The effect was to cut back on a major source of energy before any other is fully up and running.
Whoops.
And of course the proles bear the burden of their elites' dumb plans:
Polls show half of British consumers are planning to ration energy use this winter as they struggle with wholesale electricity costs that are 80% higher than the U.S.
Dina Ingram, an office administrator in London, used to turn on the central heating in her four-room house for long stretches. Now in winter she can only afford to have it on for three hours a day. She doesn’t heat her bedroom at all.
Genius!
And did all their virtue signaling mean anything?
Worldwide, wood and coal are being burned in larger quantities than ever, thanks mostly to China.
No.
