Michigan Dem's ideology is about to both raise energy prices in this state while at the same time reducing reliability.
The Detroit Free Press: Michigan Senate passes clean energy bills targeting reduced greenhouse gas emissions
Senate Bill 271 requires utilities to generate energy using at least 15% renewables through 2027, 50% from 2030 to 2034, and then 60% from 2035 on. Separately, utilities would be required to have clean energy portfolios of 80% by 2035 and reach 100% clean energy by 2040. The 50% renewable energy target for 2030 matches the goal set by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the MI Healthy Climate Plan unveiled last year.
Also, can a political hack spew anymore cliches per minute than Senator Geiss in this one short declaration:
“This legislation marks the beginning of taking bold action to address this urgent crisis, one that is a clear and present danger, and failure to tackle it meaningfully cannot be an option. In fact, the cost of doing nothing is dire and detrimental to the health and welfare of our state and her people,” said Sen. Erika Geiss, D-Taylor.
Seriously, she only missed "the fierce urgency of now" from that world salad.
Meanwhile, global warming is perhaps not exactly caused by human activity, and going out of our way to inevitably raise energy prices in Michigan while reducing reliability is a fool's errand.
Indeed, even the current love affair with electric cars seems to be coming upo against economic reality: Forget the UAW strike, the real crisis may be a lack of demand for EVs
Now add even more government-mandated EVs on the road trying to charge form the reduced reliability and more expensive renewable energy being mandated by Michigan Dems.
Why Michigan's Democrats seem hell-bent on making energy both less reliable and more expensive is anybody's guess.
2 comments:
I ask myself sometimes, do the Democrats really think the way that they act, or is it some scheme that they have in mind. Because it is hard to fathom that they actually believe in the garbage that they have been passing as law, here in our Great Lake State.
I will say one thing about the Democrats, once they got control of the state government, they did not waste any time doing a massive power grab in order to usher in all of the pet projects that they have wanted for years. All for our own good, of course. Because driving while talking on the phone is unsafe for everyone. But using a ham radio is safe. I am a ham, and believe me, they require just as much attention to use in a moving vehicle as a cell phone.
The laws do not have to make sense for them to pass them, just look at the red flag laws. I always figured that if someone was too dangerous to have a gun in their home, due to mental disturbances, then they were too dangerous to be walking around the streets free.
I have been divorced from my first wife for well over 30 years, yet the law seems to read that she could call the authorities on me, and have them take my guns, due to a perceived mental issue. The same for someone who dated in high school, and is now 50 years old, could have his high school sweetheart call and have HIS guns confiscated.
Now they are trying to figure out how to get around the financial rules that the people voted for. No doubt they will find a way.
Hey Aaron,
Donks gotta Donk,
I guarantee these inconveniences the "Hoi Pelloi" and forces everyone into EV which the government can control the power grid thereby forcing everyone to stay in their area because there ain't enough power in the area to really charge it. Think "15 Minute Cities" and the age of neo feudalism. They of course being "our Betters" will have exemptions on the power grid restrictions and ability to travel.
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