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energy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Red China Tried To Go Green, Now It’s Going Dark"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Last year, President Xi Jinping announced that Communist China was going to go carbon neutral by 2060. Like every Communist 5-year-plan, it began with lies and ended in disaster.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 14th Renewable Energy Development Five Year Plan would have China dominate the green energy industry and increase its share of non-fossil fuel energy from 15% to 20%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was last year. This year, China is importing American coal to keep the lights on in its cities. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IGfE_WJ4nF4\/YWXP2hBJ1wI\/AAAAAAAATgQ\/YGeRs29YRsQ3fSoTojaZr5Da0TvTSayhQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/xi%2Bframe.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1152\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IGfE_WJ4nF4\/YWXP2hBJ1wI\/AAAAAAAATgQ\/YGeRs29YRsQ3fSoTojaZr5Da0TvTSayhQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/xi%2Bframe.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EChina's desperate buying spree has\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/10\/while-dems-war-coal-china-desperately-buying-us-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E sent the price\u003C\/a\u003E of lignite coal, the dirtiest coal, up from $20 to $120. While Democrats are trying to destroy coal in America, our shipments of coal \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/10\/while-dems-war-coal-china-desperately-buying-us-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ehave increased\u003C\/a\u003E 30 times making China our second biggest coal market.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd we have the “green energy” of the reds to thank for it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERed China made no grand commitments to green energy, but even its 5% shift may have proven disastrous. So-called renewables are dangerously unreliable because they shift with the natural cycles of wind, sunshine, and tide. The same phenomenon leading to power outages in California has brought China, which has a much bigger population and industry, to its knees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGoing green in China is less likely to mean wind and solar than hydroelectric. That’s a wise decision because hydroelectric power is more reliable and efficient than wind and solar, but as a water empire, the Communist regime should have reckoned with China’s history of droughts. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina’s green strategy depended on hydropower and the droughts have left it powerless. And its hydropower is anything but environmentally friendly. Mao used dams to revive the water empire strategy of the ancient emperors allowing the Communist regime to starve entire regions of the country and to undermine neighbors like India. The massive number of dams in China, a totalitarian program to enable mass murder, were environmentally devastating before being revamped as “green energy” hydropower. Green energy, as usual, has its roots in genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the vast majority of China’s hydropower plants are so useless that the regime has been shutting down tens of thousands of them. The environmental damage from Mao’s dam program destroyed enough bodies of water that there’s no more hydropower to be gained from them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is the real face of China’s “green energy”: a genocidal environmentalist boondoggle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike their Soviet Communist counterparts who reported 96% successful wheat harvests even while the peasants starved, Chinese Communist officials were pressured to fake numbers for the hydropower projects to prop up Xi’s international green energy commitments. As the droughts devastated hydropower capacity, Communist officials responded with drastic power cuts that are harming Chinese industry, its exports, and even killing people with rationing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the hot summer surged, China desperately began searching for coal overseas to prepare for the coming winter. The Communist regime scrambled to conduct industrial triage, banning bitcoin miners and cracking down on online gaming, officially for social welfare, but really as a desperate effort to reduce power usage in a country with a booming internet culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina, like California, is desperately rationing energy. Some places are only allocated a few days of power a week. Part of the supply chain disaster wreaking havoc on American consumers is actually originating at the source with some Chinese factories only being given power for a day or two leaving them unable to manufacture products or fulfill orders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven while Chinese propaganda touts new skyscrapers and bizarre bridges, its cities are going dark and the residents are buying candles. It’s not unusual for Chinese drivers to navigate evening roads with no lights and for Communist officials to urge people to open their windows instead of turning on air conditioners and to use “natural light” instead of electricity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorsening the green energy disaster is China’s Communist hostility to a market economy which made it impossible for utilities to use price signals and cope with the demands and shortages. China’s electric rates are capped leading to the same results as in South Africa’s socialist power grid in which the utilities would go bankrupt providing more power when coal is too expensive. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut China’s Communists, like Soviet Communists, can’t escape market economics. The power shortages are leading to price hikes for products, decreasing exports, and a lower growth rate. It’s also causing Xi’s regime to aggressively threaten Taiwan after consolidating control over Hong Kong as the Communist dictatorship tries to project strength and plots to seize the wealth of other nations, like Taiwan, to compensate for the domestic failures of the corrupt regime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Kerry, Biden’s climate czar, headed off to China to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/09\/communist-china-sustainably-humiliates-john-kerry-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eplead with the regime \u003C\/a\u003Eto cut back on its use of coal, the Communists humiliated Kerry and read off a list of demands, including an end to sanctions on its slave labor solar panels. Kerry dutifully returned once more from Asia spouting the Communist propaganda of his hosts and once again he was taken for a ride by his captors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EXi couldn’t cut the use of coal even if the world were ending because it would end his regime. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina survived the counter-Communist revolutionists that toppled the USSR and its satellites because it was able to offer the benefits of consumerism, from smartphones to sodas, to a people who were a generation away from planned government famines. The Communists traded enough of their ideology to survive. They won’t doom themselves for environmentalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EXi’s crackdown on Chinese big industries, the threats to big internet companies, its entertainment industry, and its tycoons is not a show of strength, but a sign of weakness. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Communist regime is anticipating trouble and is going to the mattresses, consolidating control over companies and the culture to be able to ride out a crisis that it expects will be much bigger than the pandemic. As Xi’s regime panics, green energy may end up on the kill list.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina’s dam obsession wrecked its rivers and as the past year has shown, it cannot expect to service the demands of a growing population and booming industry with the bodies of water that it has spent generations destroying. Green energy isn’t China’s future, but the past, and its emperors were far wiser stewards of its rivers than the Maoists and the Communist regime. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Communist regime can fill Taiwan’s skies with warplanes and threaten India and Australia, hold Canadians hostage and browbeat American diplomats, but it’s powerless when its economic pyramid scheme fails to heat and light the homes of the Chinese people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERed China tried to go green. Instead it’s going dark. \u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5395979730732880243\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/red-china-tried-to-go-green-now-its.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5395979730732880243"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5395979730732880243"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/red-china-tried-to-go-green-now-its.html","title":"Red China Tried To Go Green, Now It’s Going Dark"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IGfE_WJ4nF4\/YWXP2hBJ1wI\/AAAAAAAATgQ\/YGeRs29YRsQ3fSoTojaZr5Da0TvTSayhQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/xi%2Bframe.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5139198275568455293"},"published":{"$t":"2021-05-06T14:22:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-05-09T23:52:03.952-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"green energy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden is Bringing Back Obama's Green Energy Energy Loan Boondoggle "},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“DOE is thrilled to bring on these dynamic leaders, who understand the urgency of the climate crisis and will help us seize opportunities to deploy the clean energy technologies of the future,” Department of Energy Chief of Staff Tarak Shah declared. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETarak Shah, whose DOE bio boasts that he is \"the first person of color, first Indian-American, and first openly LGBTQ person\" to run the department into the ground, was touting Jigar Shah, no relation, as one of the “dynamic leaders” who will “build our energy economy back better” and create “millions of good-paying union jobs” and help the “the hardest-hit communities.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dK3Dblz99DA\/YJQzswfcjuI\/AAAAAAAATDY\/4gQQZt6th_UhcRNbgkkQx8H_UZV2_1BDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s535\/image_2021-05-06_112139.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"391\" data-original-width=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dK3Dblz99DA\/YJQzswfcjuI\/AAAAAAAATDY\/4gQQZt6th_UhcRNbgkkQx8H_UZV2_1BDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-05-06_112139.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EPolitico gushed that Jigar Shah was a \"green finance legend\" who didn't need an \"obscure government job running a loan program\". Shah was nobly taking on the thankless job because “climate change had created an all-hands-on-deck emergency”. Also the “loan program” will allow him to play with\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/how-jigar-shah-plans-to-manage-does-40b-loan-programs-office\"\u003E some $22 billion\u003C\/a\u003E in government loans. That ought to be an interesting gig for a “legend” who had been working with hundreds of millions and 4 listed companies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Shah puff pieces routinely pass over SunEdison. Politicoonly mentions that he was “the founder of the pioneering solar firm SunEdison” while the DOE press release briefly mentions that he “founded SunEdison, a company that pioneered ‘pay as you save’ solar financing.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESunEdison also represented one of the biggest green energy bankruptcies, bigger than Solyndra, while benefiting from as much as $1.5 billion in government grants and subsidies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe bankruptcy happened well after Shah’s time, but SunEdison is hardly a success story.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESunEdison was how Shah became famous, he spent 5 years as its founder and CEO, and was the time that he tested his theories by running an actual green company, instead of investing money in them. And the story of the SunEdison disaster is especially relevant as the Biden admin prepares to subsidize Big Green companies and their bankruptcies. Again..\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce upon a time Shah was dubbed the “King of Solar” or the “Kanye West” of solar.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESunEdison, through its future parent company\/incarnation, run by Ahmad Chatilla, who was known as the CEO of SunEdison after Shah, amassed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2016\/04\/sunedison-failure-energy-subsidies\/\"\u003E$1.5 billion\u003C\/a\u003E in subsidies. By 2015, well after Shah left, SunEdison had been ranked as the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.goodjobsfirst.org\/sites\/default\/files\/docs\/pdf\/UncleSamsFavoriteCorporations.pdf\"\u003E13th most subsidized\u003C\/a\u003E company in America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Solyndra's bankruptcy made it infamous, SunEdison actually scored more grants and guarantees. Its bankruptcy touched off a legal battle, revelations of ties to the Obama administration, and George Soros (for once in a financial role), along with the destruction of $10 billion in market value that took a stock trading at $30 to pennies and then a delisting. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe complicated financial mess that brought down SunEdison happened long after Shah had decamped, but the underlying problems with businesses dependent on selling unreliable power sources, solar and wind, backed by government subsidies, were always there. SunEdison’s  reports routinely mentioned the vital role of subsidies in the company’s business model.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter SunEdison, Shah’s other claim to fame is setting up Generate Capital alongside Scott Jacobs, a former Obama adviser, to make investments in green companies. Generate touts its links to only 4 companies. The most notable company is BYD, a Chinese company heavily backed by the country’s Communist regime. The Alliance for American Manufacturing\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.americanmanufacturing.org\/press-release\/congress-must-act-after-new-evidence-outlines-direct-links-between-byd-and-chinas-military\/\"\u003Enoted allegations\u003C\/a\u003E of “deep personal ties between BYD’s leadership and China’s state apparatus — including the military — along with significant state subsidies and other support.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost damningly its founder “has held a number of official communist party posts” and that “Wang Zi-dong, who serves as independent non-executive director of BYD”, “also directs research at an institute that is part of Norinco Group, the state-owned defense conglomerate;”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The purpose of this is to go national,” Jigar Shah \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/2018\/07\/11\/sf-investor-generate-buffett-byd-ev-buses.html\"\u003Ehad declared\u003C\/a\u003Eof the alliance between BYD and Generate. National may be the last place we want BYD going in America. But Shah has a different perspective on the Chinese Communist economic campaign against America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2011, Jigar Shah, as head of the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy,\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/Guest-Post-Educating-Jigar-Shah\"\u003E had fought efforts\u003C\/a\u003E to stop \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisdailynews.com\/editorial\/ArticleEmail.aspx?id=72525\"\u003EChinese solar dumping\u003C\/a\u003Eas part of the regime’s longstanding trade war on America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGenerate and BYD’s alliance to finance the leasing of Chinese buses in American cities hit a snag when President Trump banned using taxpayer money to pay for the buses. BYD then made headlines with its bizarre $1 billion deal for masks with Governor Newsom in California.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBYD buses were already problematic with a Los Angeles Times investigation \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-electric-buses-20180520-story.html\"\u003Efinding that\u003C\/a\u003E the buses had to be pulled after they were found to be unreliable after 100 miles. The buses failed in multiple cities, but money kept flowing to the Chinese company because of Democrat ties. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the LA Times noted, BYD's \"business model involves hiring lobbyists and grant writers to secure no-bid purchases by public agencies, and it has invited public officials on foreign junkets and employed their close associates.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe story came out in May 2018. Generate Capital announced its deal with BYD in July 2018. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBYD’s biggest success story was its deal with the Antelope Valley Transit Authority (AVTA) in California to replace all its real buses with electric buses. AVTA claims it’s a huge success, but AVTA’s current CEO, Macy Neshati, was also the former Senior VP of BYD Heavy Industries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that sort of thing just happens when you’re out to save the planet from affordable energy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe stories of SunEdison, one of the biggest green bankruptcies in this country, and Generate Capital, helping Chinese Communists cash in on taxpayers, is the problem with Big Green in microcosm. Big Green was created and sustained by government subsidies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If the federal government was really going to launch an all-out war against the greenhouse-gas emissions that are broiling the planet, Shah was willing to enlist,” reads Politico’s story on Shah. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe framing is more shameless than any SunEdison or Generate Capital press release. That is also a sign of just how bad things have gotten as the media labors to give us more Solyndras.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERebooting the DOE’s loan program requires a lot of spin to keep people from thinking about Solyndra. Instead the Democrat and media backers of a loan reboot are citing Tesla. But call it what you will, green loans are government subsidies for businesses whose business model is built on more subsidies and mandates. Green energy is a government pyramid scheme a million times worse than anything Madoff did because its victims are taxpayers and every American. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you want electric cars, you don’t make an electric car that’s better than the real thing. Instead, you subsidize an electric car company and its business model is to cash in on carbon credits which are bought by companies making actual cars who pass on the costs to car buyers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe $50K electric car bought by a Facebook employee is funded by a dozen working class people buying Hondas. It’s a vampiric industry that feeds off looted money all the way down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis same model replicates itself across the green spectrum, especially the power grid, with government subsidies being used to create companies that then live off government subsidies. Energy loans create wind and solar companies that provide expensive and unreliable power to meet government mandates resulting in blackouts, brownouts, and higher energy prices.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome people get very rich doing this while most Americans become invisibly poorer as their cost of living rises. This invisible theft is manifested in higher prices for transportation, power, food, and every necessity of life without most people even realizing they’re being robbed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best possible outcome of any DOE green energy loan is the company going bankrupt. The worst outcome is the company finding a way to sustain its parasitic existence on a combination of loans, subsidies, and mandates so that it’s robbing Americans not just once, but every day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis green graft industry would not exist if not for an imaginary crisis and “all-out war”. And in the “all-out-war” against the weather and the atmosphere, the first casualty is the truth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe second casualty is the economy. The third casualty is America.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5139198275568455293\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/biden-is-bringing-back-obamas-green.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5139198275568455293"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5139198275568455293"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/05\/biden-is-bringing-back-obamas-green.html","title":"Biden is Bringing Back Obama's Green Energy Energy Loan Boondoggle "}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dK3Dblz99DA\/YJQzswfcjuI\/AAAAAAAATDY\/4gQQZt6th_UhcRNbgkkQx8H_UZV2_1BDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-05-06_112139.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4262260759257940248"},"published":{"$t":"2021-03-01T03:38:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-03-01T03:38:02.910-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"green energy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"New York"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Blackout Capital of America Sneers at Texas"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“Texas thought it could go it alone,” Senator Schumer declared on the Lower East Side. “Now Texas is paying the price. I hope they learned a lesson.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Democrats never learn their lesson. And they’re never expected to learn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FD8rVpcUZIE\/YDvXqEG5VEI\/AAAAAAAAS5E\/ixXrghk1pU0RoNh2Q-Q2busl-ZyCZ-2qACNcBGAsYHQ\/s457\/nye%2Bframe.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"319\" data-original-width=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FD8rVpcUZIE\/YDvXqEG5VEI\/AAAAAAAAS5E\/ixXrghk1pU0RoNh2Q-Q2busl-ZyCZ-2qACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/nye%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn 2003, New York City’s power went out because of a mistake by an operator in Ohio as part of the second biggest blackout in history which took down the grid in eight states and in Canada.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETexas’ decision to go it alone was a whole lot smarter than tying the fates of eight states and two countries to a control room in Akron. An interstate power grid means that a problem in a whole other state or country that you have no control over can leave you in the dark.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat was Schumer’s response to the 2003 blackout? He blamed President Bush for a “free market” approach of “allowing the states and utility industry to deal with it by themselves”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchumer and the Democrats extracted somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million to further integrate the power grid across a quarter of the country and parts of Canada.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit taking out power, leaving hospitals and residents in the dark. The East River power substation’s underground equipment was flooded by a “wall of water”, and the explosion that took out power across a large part of Manhattan could be seen for miles.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe station is located in the Lower East Side: the location of Schumer’s smug taunt to Texas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou might imagine that after all that, Schumer’s home city and state would have moved the power substation away from the river. And you clearly don’t know New York City.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead, $1 billion was invested in a “storm hardening program”. The goal of the program was to make sure that the underground substation located right by the river in an area that regularly experiences hurricanes won’t be flooded because it will now meet current storm surge predictions. The substation was already built to withstand a predicted storm surge of 12.5 feet. Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge hit 14 feet. If another hurricane beats the predictions, then Manhattan will be in the dark again because of an underground power substation by the river.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, it’s Texas that isn’t “learning its lesson”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“When I wrote the Sandy bill, $60 billion for New York, we made sure everything was resilient,” Schumer claimed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow resilient is it?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York City politicians and media taunting Texas over power failures from the blackout capital of the country (at least the part of it not located in California) is a really poor decision. New York’s power grid goes down if someone sneezes or just looks at it the wrong way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, New York’s power failure left a quarter of a million in the dark.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenator Schumer knows because he co-wrote a letter berating Con-Ed, and complaining, \"we need to know why so many New Yorkers have been left in the dark, both literally and figuratively—a week after the storm—and get New Yorkers’ power back on ASAP.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchumer's letter noted that, \"people had been trapped inside of their homes with live downed wires for days.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese letters are an annual tradition in which Schumer and other New York politicians blast Con-Ed, a relic of the corrupt Democrat Tammany Hall era, and then everything goes back to the way that it was before. Only the dumbest Democrat voters are fooled by the display.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Mayor de Blasio, who can’t even wake up on time, proposed a government takeover of Con-Ed. The Socialist never went through with it, but he would be welcome to try since Con-Ed was originally a network of companies controlled by Democrat officials which robbed the city on such a massive scale that its infrastructure was held back behind the rest of America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of these are part of the legacy that New Yorkers owe to Tammany Hall and the Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe bizarre corrupt shenanigans of the 19th century Democrat gas organizations continue to be a problem because every now and then an explosion happens, like the one that killed 8 people and toppled two buildings in Harlem, because there's a 120-year-old infrastructure of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/urbanomnibus.net\/2018\/10\/buried-grudges\/\"\u003Egas pipes \u003C\/a\u003Eunder New York City, leaking gas which functions like a ticking time bomb under the streets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter 120 years, New York still hasn’t learned its lesson about putting Democrats in power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECon-Ed was formed out of the merger of these companies through a price-fixing agreement. And the occasional blackout, not to mention explosion, is part of the price New Yorkers pay.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York City’s power grid remains an ongoing national disaster rivaled only by Puerto Rico.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe two years before that witnessed a blackout with an explosion so massive that it turned the sky blue and had Mayor Bill de Blasio's spokesman denying that it was the work of aliens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPlanes were forced to land on emergency power because the airport was blacked out\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA year later, New York City celebrated the anniversary of the '77 blackout which kept the city in the dark for days after a lightning storm and led to the worst rioting and looting in the city until the Black Lives Matter riots last year, with yet another blackout.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlackouts are an annual tradition in the blackout capital of America and no lessons are ever learned. Meanwhile New Yorkers pay on average 35 to 40 percent more than the rest of the country. New York has the 8th most expensive electricity in the country while Texas has the 12th cheapest. And New York residential rates shot up 5 times faster than Texas in just the last year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat might be defensible if New York City’s power service were at least reliable. It’s not.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow that Texas suffered major power failures, New York City politicians and media feel entitled to sneer. For the moment, the tiniest moment, the city’s power appears to be in better shape.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExcept for the power outages that came with the storm and took down power in Brooklyn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s easy for New York special interests to take cheap shots at Texas because the media may experience blackouts, but it won’t blame New York Democrats for them except for political gain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Cuomo was praised by the media while the dead filled New York City nursing homes until the left flank of the Democrats decided that it had a shot at replacing him in the next election. And then, suddenly, the media began reporting on the scandal it had covered up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats never have to learn any of the lessons from their latest disaster because the only reason the media will ever hold them accountable for any of them is for political gain.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy bother doing a good job running anything if the only metric that matters is political?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHad Cuomo stayed to the left of AOC, but killed twice as many seniors, he would have been fine. Had President Trump stayed in the White House, Cuomo would have also been safe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why blackouts in New York and California go politically unpunished, but the media is blaming the Texas power failures on Senator Ted Cruz taking his family to Cancun.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the snow is cleared away in Texas, New Yorkers will be getting ready for the city’s annual spring and summer blackouts. In ‘21, these will almost certainly be accompanied with riots. But no one in the media will sneer at New Yorkers or Californians huddling in the dark. Unlike sneering at Texans, there’s nothing to be politically gained from such a show of contempt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew Yorkers won’t learn their lesson. Not even when it’s 120 years in the making.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003ED\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4262260759257940248\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/the-blackout-capital-of-america-sneers.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4262260759257940248"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4262260759257940248"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/the-blackout-capital-of-america-sneers.html","title":"The Blackout Capital of America Sneers at Texas"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FD8rVpcUZIE\/YDvXqEG5VEI\/AAAAAAAAS5E\/ixXrghk1pU0RoNh2Q-Q2busl-ZyCZ-2qACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/nye%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2684663107518623910"},"published":{"$t":"2020-08-27T17:11:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-02T21:57:28.206-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"environmentalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"green energy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"socialism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"California’s Green Energy Dark Age"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Bay Area has the single largest concentration of ‘green’ businesses in the country. It was also the first to feel California’s rolling outages caused by the state’s messy infrastructure of solar panels and wind turbines, faulty and erratic, tied together by ‘virtual power plants’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe real color of ‘green energy’ is black.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Bay Area and surrounding areas are ground zero for the massive graft and grift of ‘green energy’ businesses with companies selling, reselling, manufacturing, consulting, certifying and investing in the bubble crowded in skyscrapers and office parks next to each other. And some of those ‘green’ businesses went dark when a wind farm failed and the power outages rolled out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe real victims of the evening outages in northern California were senior citizens tethered to breathing machines who sat in the dark, watching the remaining battery power and hoping they would survive, families taking the elevator down only to be trapped inside, restaurants, already battered by lockdowns and riots, losing power and watching food go bad and customers leave.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-m3yvLeYhkFY\/X0gg56WsUfI\/AAAAAAAASX8\/zTZuyuK7oGQ-YTS-lKwUSAwRAgptaUBmACNcBGAsYHQ\/s384\/california%2Bblackout.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"216\" data-original-width=\"384\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-m3yvLeYhkFY\/X0gg56WsUfI\/AAAAAAAASX8\/zTZuyuK7oGQ-YTS-lKwUSAwRAgptaUBmACNcBGAsYHQ\/w600-h338\/california%2Bblackout.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy is a region associated with the tech industry suffering from third world problems?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe California Independent System Operator, a state-controlled non-profit that defines the flow of power to most of the state, blamed, among other problems, a wind farm going dark.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ‘renewables’ around which Democrat ‘green energy’ is based aren’t so renewable after all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EISO board members, appointed by Governor Newsom, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/08\/17\/california-blackouts-expose-problems-in-states-transition-to-clean-energy\/\"\u003Ehad warned\u003C\/a\u003E that moving to 33% renewable power had left the state's power supply in a precarious position. The logjam was the solar grid. And during a weekday heat wave, power demands rise as people come home and the sun begins to set. That's why the outages had happened in the evening. No sun, no power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant gets shut down and gas plants are closed to meet renewable targets, there will be no power to supplement the overloaded ‘green’ power grid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreen advocates insist that their ‘virtual power plants’ can still handle everything, routing power from the solar panels on Bob’s roof in Marin to compensate for a wind farm going offline. This power shell game looks very futuristic in presentations, but the energy grid isn’t data. Power can’t just be treated like file sharing no matter how much energy consultants insist that it can.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats and their media allies who caused this mess are pretending to be baffled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Newsom promised another investigation which this time really will \"get to the bottom of it.” The inept Democrat fumed that, “people should have been told sooner and that is exactly the purpose of this investigation.” Which people? His own appointees had been warning him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn investigation delving into who knew what and when is a face-saving exercise meant to divert attention from the role of the corrupt and cultish Democrat obsession with ‘green energy’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Rolling Blackouts in California Have Power Experts Stumped,\" the New York Times wondered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s nothing to be stumped by and the view to the bottom is as clear as it is at Lake Tahoe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia, along with other states, is playing musical chairs across a vast grid that ties together a diminishing number of reliable power generating systems and an increasing number of unreliable power systems. There’s still enough reliable ‘brown energy’, as green grifters call it, to offset the unreliable ‘green energy’ most of the time and most times of the day. And the game of musical chairs moves enough of it around that there isn’t a problem, until there’s a problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike the Titanic, it looks great on the press releases and seems to work until it hits an iceberg.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe metaphorical iceberg sinking California’s energy grid is its heat waves. The ‘virtual power plants’ with their scalable vision of making the power supply of entire cities dependent on ephemeral natural phenomena, like the wind, water and sunlight, not to mention the solar panels awkwardly poking out over Bob’s garage, sound like the future until all the lights go out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then there isn’t enough wind speed, enough sunlight, or enough water in the dams.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVirtual power plants, like so much of Democrat governance, are a scam in which ideological boondoggles are credited for the hard work being done by a diminishing productive population. The scam only falls apart when the productive element is overshadowed by the unproductive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminal justice reform wasn’t actually compatible with low crime rates. The overworked police forces were keeping crime rates low. Once Black Lives Matter and its police defunding riots took off, policing collapsed and crime rates went through the roof.  Social justice policies weren’t compatible with higher property values. They just looked like they were until the homeless and the thugs overwhelmed neighborhoods and the bubble of the upper middle class began to burst.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe power outages are a taste of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/05\/socialism-leaves-south-africa-dark-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ESouth African blackouts\u003C\/a\u003E that are coming to California.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Newsom admitted that moving away from fossil fuels had made the energy grid unreliable, even as he insisted that the state would go on \"moving away from fossil fuels toward solar and wind.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that means that it will go on having power shortages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese are the reasons why our distant ancestors switched from ‘green energy’ to gathering and burning fuel to keep their tribe warm, cook their food, and light the night. Embracing green energy barbarism under the banner of Big Tech buzzwords inevitably leads to Burning Man.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENewsom called the outages, \"unbefitting of the nation’s largest and most innovative state.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's the problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInnovation means moving from less advanced to more advanced, and to more reliable from less reliable, technologies. Putting up windmills and swapping out nuclear for solar isn't innovation, it's like replacing your car with a horse and calling it a renewable smart car powered by nature..\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore advanced and innovative technology does more. When it does less, it’s backward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E‘Green energy’ produces less power, less reliably, and more expensively. That makes it backward. Renewables are as innovative as the green ethos of moving to a 19th century Vermont farmhouse and buying fruit at a market stand while pretending to live like farmers. It’s a charming way for a small upper class population to live, but it’s not, as greens say, sustainable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe real cost of renewables is not having a reliable power supply.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the green lobby had any integrity, it would admit that switching to wind and solar means living in a world in which your power can and will fail at any time. And that’s the price of environmentalism. Instead, like the criminal justice reformers, who failed to tell the public until last month that the price of their policies would mean the end of public safety, they’re lying.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Newsom falsely claims that California won’t sacrifice reliability for green energy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToo late.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia now has more people and less power generating capacity. As the state gets closer to the mythical 100% renewables target, it will have more people and even less capacity. A 100% renewable energy grid is a 100% unreliable grid that will be going down on a regular basis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of that will be fixed. Instead there will be slogans to make the blackouts seem progressive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPG\u0026amp;E is already describing its outages as \"sharing the challenge.\" That sounds progressive and empowering. Especially for seniors on breathing machines or children trapped in elevators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter some noise about investigations, California Democrats will ask the public to recognize that power is finite and go about the job of deciding who deserves to have power and who doesn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe troubling interconnectedness between power and government allowed Mayor Garcetti to cut off water and power to Los Angeles businesses that wanted to remain open during the lockdown and then more recently to homes hosting parties. Companies can treat customers abusively, but a government water empire can cut off power and water for political reasons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ‘green energy’ regime will “share the challenge” by creating affirmative action for blackouts, determining which areas lose power and for how long based on racial and economic criteria. The wealthy will buy their own power, while anyone on the grid will be subject to the whims of Democrat political appointees dividing the spoils of a dying energy grid in a collapsing state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe resource shortages of the green energy dark age will turn its practitioners into barbarians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia will finally reach its 100% renewables target when its population has learned to cook in wood stoves, read by candlelight, and live in the darkness of ‘green energy’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then every day in this bright new dark age can be Earth Day.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2684663107518623910\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/08\/californias-green-energy-dark-age.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2684663107518623910"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2684663107518623910"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/08\/californias-green-energy-dark-age.html","title":"California’s Green Energy Dark Age"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-m3yvLeYhkFY\/X0gg56WsUfI\/AAAAAAAASX8\/zTZuyuK7oGQ-YTS-lKwUSAwRAgptaUBmACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-w600-h338-c\/california%2Bblackout.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2937520221196332585"},"published":{"$t":"2014-06-17T20:14:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-02T22:06:26.078-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"environmentalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"green energy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Investigations"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"VA"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Green Energy for Dead Vets"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Three years before Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki would be forced out of his job because of the veterans who had died under him, he visited the Massachusetts National Cemetery. He wasn't there to see the men and women who had died because of him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-X9oLFYO_cpE\/U6DXOXtJeNI\/AAAAAAAAN7U\/wv2xgdKidRw\/s1600\/news_20110422-3.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-X9oLFYO_cpE\/U6DXOXtJeNI\/AAAAAAAAN7U\/wv2xgdKidRw\/s1600\/news_20110422-3.png\" width=\"236\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EWhile vets were dying, Obama and Shinseki had turned their attention to something truly important; seeing to it that all the cemeteries where they were being buried had wind or solar power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe  Massachusetts National Cemetery was getting a wind turbine so that the dead  veterans would have all the sustainable energy they needed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA  VA press release about the cemetery turbine boasted that \"under the  leadership of Secretary Eric K. Shinseki... VA is transitioning into a  21st century organization that better serves America’s Veterans.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShinseki \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.va.gov\/opa\/pressrel\/pressrelease.cfm?id=2081\"\u003Earrived in person at the dedication\u003C\/a\u003E ceremony to flip the switch on the cemetery wind turbine. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Nationally,  VA continues to expand its investment in renewable sources of energy to  promote our Nation’s energy independence, save taxpayer dollars, and  improve care for our Veterans and their families,” he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe  cemetery turbine had cost $533,000. Veterans were dying to save the VA a  few hundred dollars. Shinseki had made his order of priorities clear.  Green energy boondoggles came first. Improving veteran care came last.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EActing Under Secretary for  Memorial Affairs Steve Muro told the crowd, \"With one of VA’s first wind  turbine projects, the Massachusetts National Cemetery is leading the  way in the use of renewable energy while providing the burial benefits  that New England Veterans and their families have earned.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuro had made the entire macabre spectacle worthy of a Joseph Heller novel. Obama's people had not only killed veterans, they had killed satire. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the VA wasn't installing a wind turbine at a cemetery, it was installing solar panels at cemeteries to better serve the dead  veterans that it was killing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery’s solar panels cost $787,308. According to the press release, the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.green.va.gov\/GREEN\/pressreleases\/news_20111004.asp\"\u003Esolar panels in the cemetery\u003C\/a\u003E would \"reduce greenhouse gas emissions\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E$742,034 worth of solar panels was put in at the Calverton National Cemetery.\u0026nbsp; The San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery got \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mercedsunstar.com\/2010\/08\/04\/1518422\/veterans-affairs-announces-800000.html\"\u003Ean $800,000 solar panel setup\u003C\/a\u003E. The \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/index?s=opportunity\u0026amp;mode=form\u0026amp;tab=core\u0026amp;id=6c49413476199adfba4da3a038b4372f\u0026amp;_cview=1\"\u003ERiverside National Cemetery\u003C\/a\u003E got a $1.3 million solar system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We  are investing in clean energy and renewable energy projects at our  national cemeteries to reduce our environmental footprint,” Secretary of  Veterans Affairs Eric K. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.va.gov\/opa\/pressrel\/docs\/Environ_Calverton%20NC%20NR.pdf\"\u003EShinseki declared\u003C\/a\u003E.  ”The transition toward these renewable energy sources helps VA continue  to be a leading example of going green in the federal government.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVets  might be dying at VA facilities, but they would have solar panels and  wind turbines over their graves so that Shineski could provide Obama  with a leading example of “greenness”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cemeteries may have been where the VA's scandal of shorting care for vets ended, under the shade of solar panels and wind turbines, but it was not where it began.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe VA scandal began at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/04\/23\/health\/veterans-dying-health-care-delays\/\"\u003Ethe Phoenix VA Health Care System\u003C\/a\u003E where administrators earned promotions and bonuses by shunting patients who needed treatment into fake waiting lists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GBAxkR2QgFs\/U6DXgkYF9pI\/AAAAAAAAN7c\/A6dya27gXrM\/s1600\/VA+solar+carport-304.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GBAxkR2QgFs\/U6DXgkYF9pI\/AAAAAAAAN7c\/A6dya27gXrM\/s1600\/VA+solar+carport-304.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAs many as 40 veterans had died while waiting for care and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/arizona\/investigations\/2014\/06\/09\/va-scandal-audit-veterans-delayed-care\/10234881\/\"\u003E1,715 veterans in the Phoenix VA Health \u003C\/a\u003ECare System had waited more than 90 days for an appointment. A retired Navy serviceman died of bladder cancer after \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2611866\/Dont-let-die-Veterans-tearful-plea-succumbed-cancer-without-receiving-treatment-emerges-Phoenix-VA-kept-1-600-patients-secret-wait-list.html\"\u003Ebeing put on a 7-month waiting list \u003C\/a\u003Eafter blood was found in his urine. He finally received an appointment a week after his death. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut each and every year, from 2009 to 2011, the Phoenix VA Health Care System put in solar panels. The solar panels at the Carl T. Hayden VA in Phoenix cost $20 million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat $20 million could have saved the lives of dying veterans. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2009, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/va-spent-tens-of-millions-on-ad-campaigns-audits-green-energy\/\"\u003EObama had signed a Green Energy executive order. \u003C\/a\u003ESecretary of Veterans Affairs Eric \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.green.va.gov\/docs\/VA_PolicyStatementOnClimateChangeAdaptation201106.pdf\"\u003EShinseki had announced\u003C\/a\u003E that \"in order to continue providing Veterans with the best health care and benefit services, VA must adapt to climate change.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only did Global Warming have nothing to do with serving veterans, but it got in the way of the VA's central mission. While Shinseki was focused on building solar panels so the sky wouldn't fall, veterans were waiting months to see a doctor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jun\/10\/va-relocation-by-texas-vets-a-reason-for-wait\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed\u0026amp;utm_medium=RSS\"\u003Esome South Texas facilities\u003C\/a\u003E vets had to wait 85 days for a primary care appointment and 55 days for a mental health appointment with\u0026nbsp; \"a worst-in-the-nation, 145-day average wait for new patients seeking specialist care\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the vets waiting for a mental health appointment, who suffered from waiting list cheating, committed suicide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile the South Texas Veterans Health Care System installed a 1.7 MW solar PV system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Amarillo VA Health Care System had the third longest wait times for mental health appointments in the country. Its Thomas E. Creek office complained of a lack of resources. Meanwhile $10 million was spent on solar panels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kitv.com\/health\/hawaii-has-longest-wait-for-new-veteran-patients\/26404830#!XqM7o\"\u003EHawaii has the longest waiting\u003C\/a\u003E list for veterans with an average of 145 days for an appointment at the Spark M. Matsunaga VA Medical Center.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile it was spending \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/index?s=opportunity\u0026amp;mode=form\u0026amp;tab=core\u0026amp;id=52d9de1433714856374a462248f89024\"\u003Ebetween $1 and $2 million\u003C\/a\u003E on a 119 KW Solar PV System. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVeterans at Kansas VAs had to wait more than 90 days. 977 never had appointments scheduled. There were 104 vets on the waiting list at the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut while the Dole Center may not have had time for vets, it did have time to set up solar panels. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.ocala.com\/article\/20140515\/ARTICLES\/140519797\"\u003EThree mental health administrators\u003C\/a\u003E at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida were suspended for keeping a waiting list for over 200 vets. Meanwhile the facility had blown between\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/index?s=opportunity\u0026amp;mode=form\u0026amp;tab=core\u0026amp;id=0a2de6393cc764b7e206933f1d0bd06c\"\u003E $5 and $10 million on a solar\u003C\/a\u003E panel system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/412514\/news\/va-checking-status-of-3000-patients-on-phantom-wait-list.html\"\u003Eput 3,000 vets on a phantom\u003C\/a\u003E waiting list to see a doctor who doesn't see patients.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately its\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.va.gov\/opa\/pressrel\/docs\/Construct_NM_Albuquerque($20m)%20SOLAR%20NR.pdf\"\u003E $20.3 million solar setup\u003C\/a\u003E was all too real. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe average wait time for new patients at the Carl Vinson VA Medical Center was about 57 days to see a primary care doctor.\u0026nbsp; But that just gave vets more time to admire its new $1.1 million solar setup.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Bay Pines VA Health Care System didn't schedule appointments for 1,000 vets. But it did find the time and money to put in solar panels. The Cheyenne VA Medical Center, which was caught removing vets from the  waiting list, had not one, but two, million dollar solar setups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center, which was one of three flagged facilities, was part of a $50 million VA solar panel contract.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVets couldn't get appointments, but every VA facility was getting solar power, whether it needed it or not.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Buffalo VA Medical Center in upstate New York, where winter is the best 8 months of the year, got solar. So did the VA center in the Bronx in New York City. The New York VA solar contracts were part of $7.8 million in solar contracts awarded to one company.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-vVuMVTWfRgI\/U6DX9YZOmWI\/AAAAAAAAN7k\/5qYdae7TbvU\/s1600\/Obama.solar_.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-vVuMVTWfRgI\/U6DX9YZOmWI\/AAAAAAAAN7k\/5qYdae7TbvU\/s1600\/Obama.solar_.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EMeanwhile in Southeast Texas, the former associate chief of staff at the VA said that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/m.washingtonexaminer.com\/whistleblower-says-veterans-affairs-cost-cutting-led-to-denials-delays-in-life-saving-cancer-tests\/article\/2548327\"\u003Ea cost-cutting policy had been implemented\u003C\/a\u003E under which colonoscopies would only be approved if the patient tested positive in three successive screenings for bloody stools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“By the time that you do the colonoscopies on these patients, you went from a stage 1 to a stage 4, which is basically inoperable,” Dr. Richard Krugman said. \"That was done because of dollars and cents. For the VA, they have to be bleeding out of their rectum before they would authorize a colonoscopy.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEveryone has their priorities. Benghazi and the VA scandal happened because the men who died were a low priority compared to solar panels and buying bad art for embassies. The State Department spent millions on art for embassies and mansion  renovations, but begrudged the security that would have saved four  American lives. Fortunes were spent on solar panels and wind turbines for VA facilities, but veterans died of cancer to save money on a colonoscopy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe corrupt obsession with Green Energy doesn't just waste money, it costs lives. The fanaticism of the Global Warmists in the White House led them to disregard the lives of vets because they thought that saving the world with solar panels and wind turbines was more important.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe VA's Green Management Program Office claimed that it would \"keep our promises to Veterans through sustainability.\" Instead it focused on \"Environmental Justice\" and \"Green Purchasing\" at the expense of veterans. Solar panels went up and veterans went down. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile they were putting in wind and solar at VA facilities and cemeteries, they forgot about the veterans who had served their country and deserved better than to be sacrificed for a solar panel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2937520221196332585\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2014\/06\/green-energy-for-dead-vets.html#comment-form","title":"26 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2937520221196332585"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2937520221196332585"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2014\/06\/green-energy-for-dead-vets.html","title":"Green Energy for Dead Vets"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-X9oLFYO_cpE\/U6DXOXtJeNI\/AAAAAAAAN7U\/wv2xgdKidRw\/s72-c\/news_20110422-3.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"26"}}]}});