Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders rolled out another version of the Green New Deal as both lawmakers gear up for the 2020 election.
The new version calls for a $180 billion investment to retrofit public housing to eliminate all carbon emissions, The Hill reported Thursday.
The housing units would use solar panels and other green energy resources to meet those goals.
“This bill shows that we can address our climate and affordable housing crises by making public housing a model of efficiency, sustainability, and resiliency,” Sanders said in a statement. He is running for president amid a crowded Democratic field.
Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman Democrat from New York, said the proposal goes a long way toward creating green energy jobs. They will introduce the proposal Thursday afternoon, the report notes.
“The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act will train and mobilize the workforce to decarbonize the public housing stock and improve the quality of life for all residents,” she said in the statement. Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, the co-founder of the original GND, is endorsing the proposal.
Republican lawmakers and conservatives criticized the GND after its introduction in February.
“A six-page, non-binding resolution marketed as a ‘War Plan’ proves Congressman Cortez isn’t prepared and hasn’t done her homework,” Dan Kish, a senior fellow at the Institute for Energy Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in February.
Senate Democrats did not support the GND in March when Republicans forced a vote. Not even Markey, who introduced the Senate version of the Green New Deal, voted for it.
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They should make these two live in Grass Huts without heat or a place to sleep but on the floor let them get a dose of their own medicine and see how they like it
The “green” in the GND would be the billions diverted and siphoned by Democrat allies. Crony capitalism, commie style.
These nit-wits keep talking about “carbon” and “decarbonizing,” but I thought the real problem they were trying to solve has to do with CARBON DIOXIDE. Get your terms straight people! Or perhaps they just have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about. If they really have decarbonization as a goal, diamond jewelry will have to be taken off the market as well as graphite-filled pencils. People, for that matter, could become illegal.
“…train and mobilize the workforce to decarbonize the public housing stock” – sounds like a PR from GOSPLAN. They sure like to throw around the billions and trillions. Where are all these fantastic amounts of money supposed to come from? (n.b., this is a rhetorical question).
Sanders talks of their plan as if it would make public housing energy self sufficient. This is not even close to being true. Larger homes in suburbia with solar panels do not make as much power as they use. Public housing is smaller and usually multi story meaning there is less surface area for solar exposure per person.
The cost of the jobs AOC and Sanders are talking about would cost all US households on the average $1,400.
What “housing crises”? We don’t have any. If you are working you can afford the rent. If you are not working I am not going to pay for your “affordable housing”.
Beware of Romulan’s bearing gifts