There’s nothing the Green New Deal can’t do. It would “mitigate deeply entrenched racial, regional and gender-based inequalities in income and wealth” — and, oh, yeah, “virtually eliminate poverty.”
All of this would be so tremendously costly that it is hard to fathom, not to mention technologically infeasible. Since wind and solar energy aren’t continuously available if we relied on them entirely, we’d either have to have regular blackouts or deploy unimaginable amounts of storage relying on technologies that haven’t been proved at scale.
The Green Energy Plan would take one of the country’s unadulterated policy triumphs of the last 20 years — the revolution in oil and gas drilling — and trash it for no good reason. It would throw hundreds of thousands of employees in this industry out of work. But don’t worry — they could get a federally guaranteed job and perhaps grow fruits and vegetables in their backyards.
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