Like everything else that is associated with the federal government that is controlled by progressives socialist democrats, misinformation, along with unlimited ideology of regulation for control drives the narrative of climate change being the most dangerous problem facing us today.
The absolute insanity of this statement, given how the world is on fire and America itself sinking into default, begs the question that most individuals that have a grip on reality have asked, 'what are you taking about?' 'Where do you come from' and 'where have you been for the last 6 years?'
Unfortunately, millions of our citizens have very little contact with reality. Reality is to complicated and scary. The low information voter escapes into the world of buttons and beeps ignoring the huge landslide of poop roaring down on them totally unaware of consequences of their ignorance.
Renewable Energy: Lobby's Report More Fog Than Light
Source: Jon Sanders, "Renewable Energy: Lobby's Report More Fog than Light," John Locke Foundation, June 4, 2015.
August 5, 2015
Three of the four drivers of higher electricity costs in North Carolina are because of the state's renewable energy mandates, according to a report circulated among lawmakers by the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association (NCSEA). They include renewable energy investments by utilities, the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standards (REPS) mandate, and demand-side management/energy efficiency programs.
Specifically, the report and other studies find: North Carolina's rates have increased more than 2.5 times the national average increase since 2008, which is the year when REPS took effect. The costs of complying with the Clean Smokestacks Bill have skyrocketed. This bill has been in effect since near the beginning of the rate hikes. The effects of REPS so far have only measured the initial implementation, which as of 2014 only affected six percent of electricity sales. By 2021, REPS will affect 12.5 percent. REPS is estimated to cost 3,592 jobs, $58.6 million in disposable income and $140.4 million in real GDP.
It is practically impossible for the non-dispatchable renewable resources of solar and wind to be actually cheaper than traditional resources of coal, nuclear and natural gas. The energy conversation currently ignores cheap natural gas options found in shale.
In North Carolina, electricity consumers have no choice in their electricity provider. This fact should, first of all, never provide an excuse to use this lack of a free market to enrich special interests at the expense of captive ratepayers. State leaders should return North Carolina to this standard of least-cost, reliable power.
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