Green New Deal- Voters Say No

Despite the mixed signals from the 2020 election the exit polling indicated one clear loser: the Green New Deal, reports Steve Milloy. ¹ The exit polling shows that the climate issue was simply not a voter priority anywhere. The high mark for climate seems to have been in Colorado, where 9% of voters said climate was their priority. But in states such as Florida, Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and even Biden's Delaware, a mere 3% of voters said climate was their priority.

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The exit polling shows that the climate issue was simply not a voter priority anywhere

The public doesn't want the Green New Deal. People say so in every poll. A 2019 Washington Post-Kaiser Foundation survey found that most people would oppose paying even a mere $2 more per month on their electric bill for climate purposes. The polling running up to the election failed to indicate a significant pulse among voters for the climate. The New York Times exit polls report more of the same. ¹ Further evidence: A USC poll from September: only 4% of voters put climate as their top issue. ² And if the average person realized the truth that Green New Deal policies just raise prices and reduce their standard of living without improving the weather or climate in any discernible way, support for it would be zero. Clearly, a 100 percent renewable electricity system is not realistic by 2030 as the Green New Deal requires and certainly not at a reasonable cost. Wind and solar technologies are intermittent, as they depend on the weather and have low capacity factors, meaning that much more capacity would be required than the coal or natural gas capacity that they would be replacing. Further, battery storage is currently not a viable option as the technology is expensive and still developing. 100% renewable energy isn't going to happen in the foreseeable future. The science doesn't exist, the cost would be astronomical and the politics impossible. ³

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Green Germany is bulldozing forests for the purpose of mining coal

There are several studies that indicate it would cost the United States trillions of dollars to transition to an electric system that is 100 percent renewable. Costs range from $4.5 trillion to $5.7 trillion in 2030, about a quarter of the US debt. The lower estimate results in a cost per household of almost $2,000 per year.⁴ In Europe, the goal of Energiewende is to make Germany independent of fossil fuels. But it hasn't worked out. The 29,000 wind turbines and 1.6 million PV systems provide only 3.1% of Germany's energy needs and have cost will over 100 billion Euros so far and likely another 450 billion Euros over the next two decades. ⁵ In 2017 German families and businesses were pummeled by 172,000 localized blackouts. Last year, some 350,000 German families had their electricity cut off because they couldn't pay their power bills. In Britain, millions of elderly people have to choose between heating and eating decent food; many spend their days in libraries to keep warm and more than 3,000 die every year because they cannot heat their homes properly, making them more likely to succumb to respiratory, heart, flu, or other diseases. ⁶ Last year, Germany was forced to acknowledge that it had to delay its phase out of coal, and would not meet its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction commitments. It announced plans to bulldoze an ancient church and forest in order to get at the coal underneath it. That's right—as the fracking revolution has contributed to America's leading the world in carbon emissions decline, green Germany is bulldozing forests for the purpose of mining coal.⁷

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Radically restructure America

Further, the European Green Deal risks deepening economic and social divisions between east and western EU countries, trade unions say, warning the 27-member bloc risks imploding before it reaches its 2050 climate neutrality. “We are talking about almost 11 million jobs directly affected in extractive industries, energy intensive industries and in the automotive industry,” said Luc Triangle, secretary general of the IndustriAll, a federation of trade unions. ⁸ Back in the US, the Green New Deal's most ardent supporters want you to know they'll accept no compromise in their plan to radically restructure America—just in case you thought you could meet them in the middle. What is new about this particular paean is how quickly it dispenses with the climate change facade to get to the activists' real agenda: pushing the bright-red socialism with a dab of green paint. The Green New Deal sweeps away the Left's delicate 40-year plan to convince Americans that global warming has absolutely, positively nothing to do with socialism and goes for the jugular: “The need for a Green New Deal is more pronounced than ever, as marginalized communities are impacted by intersecting crises of climate change, increasing income/wealth inequality, and rising white nationalism and neo-fascism.” Yet the Green New Deal is recognition from the most devoted environmentalists that climate change is just another name for social justice, which is just another name for wealth redistribution and totalitarianism—a dictatorship. ⁹

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“Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as how do you change the entire economy thing,”

Proof: Green New Deal proponent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti admitted recently that the true motivation behind the Green New Deal is to overhaul the 'entire economy.' “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as how do you change the entire economy thing,” he said. ¹⁰ And you thought that climate change had something to do with climate. ⁹

References

1. Steve Milloy, “One clear election loser: the green new deal,” msn.com, November 7, 2020
2. Jenesse Miller, “USC poll: Biden leads on everything but jobs and the economy,” news.usc.edu, September 16, 2020
3. Mark J. Perry, “The environmental costs of renewable energy are staggering,” fee.org, September 15, 2019
4. Philip Rossetti, “What it costs to go 100 Percent renewable,” americanforum.org, January 25, 2019
5. “Germany's renewable energy program, Energiewende, is a big expensive failure,” energyskeptic.com, July 20, 2019
6. Paul Driessen, “How exactly do they plan to replace fossil fuels?”, wattsupwiththat.com, March 16, 2020
7. Tom Finnerty, “The false promise of affordable green energy,” principia-scientific.com, November 14, 2020
8. Frederic Simon, “Eleven million jobs at risk from EU green deal, trade unions warn,” euractiv.com, March 9, 2020
9. Hayden Ludwig, “The green road to serfdom,” capitalresearch.org, December 24, 2019
10. Jack Crowe, “AOC's chief of staff admits the green new deal is not about climate change,” nationalreview.com, July 12, 2019

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