Commentary

I know, you’re probably tired of hearing about global warming and climate change, but you need to know what the environmental wackos are feeding the media.

For example, the left-leaning Arizona Republic published an Associated Press article, “Storms batter aging power grid as climate disasters spread,” in which it claims that power outages from severe weather have doubled over the past two decades across the U.S., as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms that cripple broad segments of the nation’s aging electrical grid.”

I found it interesting that Alexandra von Meier of the University of California at Berkeley was quick to say, “Climate change is here and we’re feeling real effects.  The electric grid is our early warning.”

She blames 25-year-old transmission facilities forcing utilities to quadruple spending; $40 billion annually since 2000, with billions more to be spent, while noting that costs will be passed on to consumers. “Rates will go up and reliability will go down,” she said.

“Simple arithmetic shows that without massive energy storage no amount of building of wind and solar generators can make much difference in fossil fuel use for electricity productions; and adequate energy storage devices to fill the gap do not even exist as a technical matter, let alone at remotely reasonable cost.  Fossil fuel production and use in 2050 will be as high or higher than they are now.” – Francis Menton, the Manhattan Contrarian

You won’t hear wind and solar activists talking about higher electricity bills once the nation has 100 percent renewable energy, but it will happen.

In previous posts, I have written about the need for greatly expanded transmission lines and battery energy storage if the fantasy goal of net zero-emissions was to be attained.

And, as I recently commented, those clean energy utopians don’t want to hear about the open-pit mining that will be required for materials vital to our future in battery and solar panel production.

What will it take to convince the Biden administration that not only is our land rich in oil, but vast mineral wealth?

They have no problem with our purchasing those minerals from underdeveloped countries.  Let their retractive emissions worsen, not ours.

“Our friends in Canada and Australia have no problem opening new mines in their advanced nations,” wrote Jon Gabriel of Ricochet.com, “but the U.S. would rather lean on underdeveloped or even hostile countries.”

We hope the rest of the world doesn’t see the hypocrisy of our contributing billions of dollars to the UN to aid to those underdeveloped countries, while we keep our air emissions free. It’s shameful!

A bit of optimism came from the Energy Information Administration regarding the 2050 net zero goal, projecting that fully electric vehicles will not have achieved 10 percent of the market, and full gasoline-powered vehicles will still have a market share around 75 percent.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.