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Bloomberg would shut down coal plants if elected president
[NYPOST] Mike Bloomberg ...Billionaire former Republicanmayor and nanny of New York, Dem candidate for president in 2020. Wants to rid the country of assault weapons, other kinds of guns, and 32-ounce soft drinks... would shut down the nation’s remaining 251 polluting coal power plants and halt construction of 150 new gas facilities as part of a sweeping program to slash carbon emissions and boost clean energy alternatives if elected president. Vote for him and you'll deserve to sit shivering in the dark. Bloomberg’s plan ‐ unveiled Friday during a campaign stop in northern Virginia ‐ aims to cut US carbon emissions in half over 10 years and put the country on course to get 80 percent of its electricity generated from green energy ... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The greenin the term refers to the vast number of dollars that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results... sources, like wind and solar, by 2028. The proposal would end taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels and offer incentives for clean energy. Additionally, it would impose more stringent carbon and pollution standards for new gas plants, effectively barring new construction. Bloomberg’s plan largely aligns with programs laid out by other Democrats ‐ and stands in sharp contrast to President Trump’s public boosting of coal and oil. The US became the top oil and natural gas producer in the world in 2018. Natural gas has replaced coal as the top energy source. Combating climate change has long been one of Bloomberg’s pet causes. The former three-term New York City mayor and billionaire philanthropist helped launch the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, which led to the shuttering of more than half the nation’s coal plants. Posted by: Fred 2019-12-14 |
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