If you can get them warmed up enough, maybe they'll be ready to think about the notion that if the fuel/energy people need to survive weather extremes is only provided on a "Can I make a tidy profit from it" basis, there's just about no incentive for anyone to have a plant that fires up one week a year when the polar vortex breaks out. That maybe...JUST MAYBE...life-sustaining utilities should be public like what those communists out in Omaha did with their power district.
Everyone accepts that their city sewage is public but for some reason electricity needs to be overthought by a factor of 50.
It's HILARIOUS to me that people think TX has windmills because "Obama made em do it." You ever hear anything about Texas ever? They're sorta not known for jumping on neoliberal ideas and they ARE sorta known for doing whatever the f**k is profitable energy-wise. You may have heard some mention of them in relation to oil. They're in favor.
Also maybe you're unfamiliar with how government works but do you really think that if the big money players in energy didn't want wind and solar to exist they'd ever have gotten tax credits? ComEd and all the big daddies want to suckle at that sweet govt tit while they find the next, cheaper method of generation just like all the other players in the space do.
If you ever, I mean EVER think that somebody is too proud to take govt money go ask your most right-wing of buddies how long they waited to send back their stimulus $$. Bet they can't tell you fast enough that they deserve it.
Texas has windmills because utilities know new wind farms are cheaper to start than other kinds of power plants. But don't take my word for it...
President Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned the economics of wind energy, saying that wind "doesn't work" without subsidies. Experts have differing assessments of that. By some metrics, wind power is already competitive with fossil fuels without subsidies. But other measures don’t come to...
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