Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders introduced a $16.3-trillion plan similar to the Green New Deal on Thursday, which he says will create 20 million jobs.
The plan aims to make 100% of energy for U.S. electricity and transportation renewable by 2030 and have “complete decarbonization” by 2050, according to its outline.
“As President, Bernie Sanders will boldly embrace the moral imperative of climate change and mobilize the political will necessary for a wholesale transformation of our society, with massive investments in sustainable energy, energy efficiency, and a transformation of our transportation system,” his plan reads.
TODAY @BernieSanders has released our plan for a #GreenNewDeal
For far too long, it’s been easy for fossil fuel bosses to divide the working class over the environment. Not anymore.
Together, we will avert climate catastrophe and create 20,000,000 jobshttps://t.co/gLpwPeaOhL
— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) August 22, 2019
His plan also states that it will “pay for itself over 15 years” by increasing taxes on fossil fuel companies, generating revenue from federal renewable energy, and collecting income tax from the 20 million jobs it aims to create.
Sanders’s website says a Green New Deal will “save American families money and generate millions of jobs by transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels to 100% energy efficiency and sustainable energy.”
It will also “protect workers and the communities in which they live to ensure a transition to family-sustaining wage, union jobs.”
Policies listed within the plan itself include moving the U.S. away from the fossil fuel industry, re-entering the Paris climate accord that President Donald Trump said the U.S. will be formally removed from in 2020 and spending trillions of dollars to help workers in the fossil fuel industry, as well as minority communities, transition into a green-energy economy.
Other 2020 Democratic candidates including Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’ Rourke, and Cory Booker have also introduced climate change plans as part of their campaign platforms, and others have endorsed the Green New Deal plan introduced by Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Wind, water and solar. What’s missing? Fire. That’s one of the biggest things that sets humans apart from the other animals.
Do the Gaia worshipping Greens want to wrest our advantage away? Yes, that and more.
Renewables. Sustainability.
Renewable energy. Renewable energy types are defined as water, wind, and solar power.
“Water, wind, and solar power are also defined as sources of energy that are not depleted by use.”
And according to Bernie Renewable energy is 100% energy efficient and sustainable. True?
Water, wind, and solar power are more accurately described as POTENTIAL TYPES of WEATHER capable of electrical energy production WHEN AVAILABLE in sufficient quantity and volume at fixed sites designed specifically for electrical generation by that weather type”.
Water and wind are not wholly independent potential types of electrical energy production but are derivatives entirely dependent upon random daily interaction with solar energy. Solar energy which drives what is commonly and collectively known as “weather”.
The availability of “solar power” as a type of electrical energy production is also a derivative of its own generative effects upon water vapor and air which we know can severely limit “solar panel power output”. Also due to the same commonly and collectively known effect known as “weather”.
Available “solar power” as a type of electrical energy production is limited to a daily 4 hour maximum generation period (WEATHER PERMITTING) per time zone AND limited to seasonal hemispheric locations due to Earth’s wobbly rotation.
AND finally, keep in mind that 70.8% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and “solar power” is limited to land base collection sites.
In truth, “renewables” vary annually by location, are limited globally to less than 30% of the Earth’s surface and all three are WEATHER DEPENDENT. Solar energy production using today’s best available designs is further limited to a MAXIMUM of 70 days potential production PER YEAR for ANY single optimal site.
And Sustainability?? Two questions to ask Bernie…. IS WEATHER DEPENDENT power production from water, wind, and solar power really affordable, efficient, convenient, reliable, eco-friendly or superior in ANY WAY compared to present day carbon based energy production??? Where???
Sanders is just another delusional baffon we dont need the Green New Deal its a scam
What kind of jobs Bernie ? Candle makers , cave diggers , and cannon fodder ?
The climate fear industry must absolutely hate Pres Trump because he gets blamed for EVERYTHING now instead of global warming . Totally wrecks their marketing plan .
The inconvenient truth is that a failed politician who got a D in science has managed to create the biggest over-exaggerated fraud in history .
It doesn’t take long for history to repeat itself and the lemmings
to reappear.
Bernie Sanders obviously failed grade school math. Take $16.3 trillion ($16,3000,000,000,000) and divide it by 20 million jobs and that works out to a cost of $815,000 for each job created. That isn’t a good deal. I’m sure Sanders would say that the jobs were a mere side effect and the main reason for his program is to avoid world wise melt down. Even if the climate change fraud were real, his program if it could be implemented would do nothing to reduce world wide emissions. China, India, and a host of other developing nations are dramatically ramping up their fossil fuel use.
Doing more math, as of today the estimated population of the US is 329,415,146. Divide that into $16.3 trillion and the cost comes to $49,482 per person. Now we need to realize that for an impact on families, the average household has 2.5 people, so on the average that is $123,704 per household. The money would clearly come from the middle class. Taxes on fossil fuel companies will be passed on to the consumers. Federal renewable energy is paid for by the consumers by the staggering prices for such energy. There will be no taxes on the 20 million jobs he says will be created because efforts to reduce emissions result in job loss.
Without nuclear it isn’t possible move our power grid to 100% renewable energy because we don’t have the technology to store enough power for when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine.
The thing is any candidate can say any hair ball thing they want . It doesn’t matter
because the only real thing these elected clowns do is rubber stamp the continuation of $$trillion dollar deficits . After all they do like getting paid .
They no longer even have a pretense of working for the public interest .
One giant disgusting peeing contest that the commies can exploit .
What ever happened to living within your means . Or does that only apply to the dwindling middle class as kind of a throw back to a Leave It To Beaver moment ?
In what country can the judicial continuously override elected representatives , the intel agency spy on political parties , pedophiles executed in prison and a border so open as to virtually not exist .
Really how long does this go on . No wonder Bernie can say anything knowing there is virtually zero chance it will ever happen .
Does the USA need to break to be rebuilt ? Looks like it’s moving quick to get there .
Every last one of the GND advocates are set for life. The people, the little people that Bernie and AO-C claim to represent, will not benefit one iota from the GND. A sugar high, maybe. But killing capitalism will spread misery for everyone.
You don’t have to be a capitalist in order to benefit from capitalism. Capitalism is the best provider. There will always be winners who have more than you. Get over it.
Bernie is a flaming ideologue idiot
Reflect back anytime the republicans held
both houses of congress and proposed anything good
The screaming wailing Bernie and his throng
demanded ” How are we going to pay for this ? ”
In other words demanding a tax increase on the middle class
before anything good can be done for the country.
Well where is his insane taxation demand now ?
When he promising everybody everything for free
and not addressing how it will be paid for ?
Anybody who doesn’t recognize Bernie as a lying phony
is just as stupid as Bernie thinks they are.
What is so amazing is you have a communist supporter so delusional that
he actually thinks people would believe a complete F!@#ing wacho and vote to elect him . Biden could not utter a single word and walk around like a propped
up store mannequin with an outstanding chance of wiping the floor with some of the dumber politicians on the planet .
Is the Burn trying to out eco-anachist Steyer ? It is the only logical explanation or is it a desire to complete flush the Democrat party after the last time they drove a spike into him .
These guys won’t even be around when the earth ends in 12 years .
The total idiocy of such a proposal. What kind of ignorance is there that Sanders thinks we could go to “clean” energy for everything anytime in our lifetimes. And that it would save us money while creating millions of jobs–no mention of the millions of jobs lost in so many industries that are based on low-cost energy.
This would throw us back into stone-age type poverty within a few years.
Rather than try to put some “lipstick on this pig,” I’ll try a more “aspirational” approach. Instead of vilifying energy PROVIDERS and all the climate hysteria, I offer a more sensible proposition. Properly framed, what we have facing us in the U.S (and globally) is an energy TRANSITION with attendant environmental protection and the consequent imperatives associated with that set of challenges. Period. Since Bernie and the Socialists have NO USE for hydrocarbons or nuclear fission, then only ONE fundamental question needs to be answered: “What CLEAN, SCALABLE & SUSTAINABLE alternative do YOU suggest to replace 95% of our transportation fuel & industrial heat and 85% of our electric power generation in the U.S?” Rather than 100% renewables by 2030, I’d suggest a stretch goal of just skipping ahead and openly defying GRAVITY…that is just about equally obtainable! We need to start having a thoughtful, INFORMED debate about (finally) formulating a coherent national energy strategy and needed policies. All this GND stuff is nothing more than pushing peas around on our plate…
In other news, from the real world, the USA is now the world leader in oil and gas production.
Socialist Germany, a world leader in green energy, is offering 10-year bonds with a negative interest rate.
Bernie Sanders promises to wreck America. “Transform” it? He’ll first need to be nominated, then elected. America is safe, this time around, but something is amiss with the youngsters. The Left is grooming them against Capitalism.