Green New Deal
There’s a growing buzz around a “Green New Deal,” spearheaded by newly-elected Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Although the details are in flux, currently the draft text calls for the creation of a 15-member “Select Committee for a Green New Deal” that would “have authority to develop a detailed national, industrial, economic mobilization plan” to make the U.S. economy “greenhouse gas emissions neutral.” As if that weren’t ambitious enough, the Select Committee’s detailed national plan would also have the goal “to promote economic and environmental justice and equality.” The draft specifically mentions spending $1 trillion over ten years.
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That's No Deal

8/31/19
from TPPF,
8/29/19:

What to Know: Texas cities like Georgetown, San Antonio and Austin, which committed to 100 percent renewable energy, are seeing similar results—higher electricity bills, and an undeniable reliance on non-renewable sources to make up for the unreliability of wind and solar power. The TPPF Take: It wasn’t supposed to be this way; renewable energy has failed to live up to its promises. “Georgetown’s electric bills went up as more wind and solar power displaced cheaper natural gas in the power portfolio of the Georgetown’s municipal utility,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “Politicians scrambled for cover. And the bloom came off Georgetown’s renewable rose. Now they’re trying to figure out how to unwind the renewable mess they and their predecessors voted themselves into.”

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