Tax Supported Green
Technology Harms
Economy
Assume
for a moment the surge in the stock markets is a complete fraud instigated by
the federal government (an assumption that grows more plausible as one delves
deeper into the data about the economy). Without the market surge where is the
recovery?
It
is nowhere near as robust as the government would have you believe and, without
the Fed's actions, the economy would still be in reverse.
The
major roadblock to a provable, sustained economic recovery is the tree-hugger
agenda Barack Obama and his Administration are forcing on America's energy
industry. There is a minor side benefit to the effort to improve the environment
but the additional costs imposed strain what little energy is provided by
the Fed activity to move the country forward.
It
does not matter what the source of the energy produced if all were created
equal, but they are not. Fossil fuel-based, depletable resources like coal, oil
and natural gas are much more cost efficient than the renewable replacements of
solar, wind and hydro. Thus the agenda mapped out by our government is having a
distinct, negative effect on the economy simply because the cost to implement
such changes
put
America at an economic disadvantage around the globe.
But
what is even more alarming are the state initiatives--fueled by government
grants of taxpayer-stolen money--which continue to foster the system at a local
level. But what's real bad news for the environment is the changes to "renewable
sources" is ultimately going to do more harm to the planet than consumption of
the fossil fuels.
Take
wind power as an example. The cost of putting up a tower, $2-3 million each) far
exceeds the energy production of the windmill. Also, take a trip under the
windmill and count the number of dead birds. Now the government goes berserk
getting out photos of oil-covered birds after an oil spill like the Deep Horizon
in the Gulf but they haven't once published a photo of the piles of lifeless
feathered birds under a windmill. Isn't it the same thing, just a different
weapon?
But
the real hidden cost to America is the windmill is inefficient and unreliable.
According to energy specialist Carl Langner, PhD, "For any electrical grid in
which wind power accounts for more than 8% of total power, the variability of
power causes the grid to become unstable." (1) Langner points out
windmill construction in Europe--a region much more environment-conscious than
America--has virtually ceased because of this.
But
in America we find individual states where Legislatures are controlled by the
tree-hugger crowd forwarding laws requiring up to 20% of the grid include
wind power. This assures rolling brownouts across the grid.
But
what is worse is the traditional electrical power plants are forced to make up
the difference. This means more consumption of the dreaded, maligned usage of
natural gas, oil or coal which increases the overall production of the hated
carbon dioxide.
The
final nail in the economic fabric is the electricity produced by these wind
farms cannot be built without government subsidies to back up the mandates the
government issues. Whether it is an alternative fuel vehicle, a windmill or
solar producer--every watt of energy thus produced, every molecule of CO2 saved
is done only through the financial support of the public sector to the loss of
the private sector.
No
economy devised can withstand this unrelenting onslaught draining the lifeblood
from it.
But
the real cost is years down the road. Most of the chemicals needed to produce
the solar panels or the energy-efficient lightbulb for instance, are much more
deadly to the environment than the things they replaced. Unless of course they
are properly disposed of and nobody has calculated that cost yet mainly because
consumers and producers tend to dump them however and whever they can.
Colorado
now has four cleanup sites waiting for hazmat teams because of defunct Abound Solar,
a government supported solar panel producer. Abound Solar had a couple of
problems but its most notable achievement had to be its remarkable 96% panel
failure. Either the things did not work or they caught fire. Either way the
panels were defective. But like Solyndra before it, Abound's panels were not cost effective for
the target consumers and the company was mainly useful as a photo op for
politicians trying to promote their country's, state's, county's, municipality's
or business district's commitment to the failing green agenda. (2)
Despite the monotonous
litany of failed green technology the only people who seem to not have learned
the brutal lessons are those we elect. (3)
Every
time we send another tree hugger to office, we are voting against a prosperous
economy. If no other lesson is provable, that one is. With Democrats wedded to
that portion of their base and Republicans caving like beanbag chair the economy
will be stuck for the foreseeable future.
But
the politicians haven't seen the logical end to their program. The economy is
getting to the point where it will be so maimed and weak it will never recover.
Without a private sector where will the public sector get the funding to
continue this charade? More importantly, will we be able to revert back to
fossil fuel usage in order to avoid the train wreck?
The
answers carry dire implications for generations to come but the stock markets
will certainly have no more support from the government and will need purely
Main Street investors. Then 1929 will seem like a schoolboy prank.
"I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility to every
form of tyranny over the mind of man."--Thomas Jefferson
(1)--"Rural Energy Standard Is Unachievable", Carl
Langner
(2)--"Colorado Orders Abound Solar to Clean Up Hazardous Waste At Four
Sites", Denver Post 2-25-2013 and "Bankruptcy Filings Allege Abound Solar Awar
of Defective Panels", Denver Post, 3-1-2013.
(3)--"Obama's Utopian Hypocrisy: Coal Consumption", Ben Bullard,
personalliberty.com, 7-10-2013
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