A little financial arithmetic the “chicken little” eco-warriors are too "intellectually challenged" to factor in to their "impossible to prove" crackpot climate change theories

From here:

No, Wind and Solar Power is Not "Cheaper Than Coal" – The Daily Sceptic

“Here’s a U.S. Treasury ‘Factsheet‘ about the Inflation Reduction Act.

FACT SHEET: Four Ways the Inflation Reduction Act’s Tax Incentives Will Support Building an Equitable Clean Energy Economy (treasury.gov)

In it we read that: “The U.S. Department of the Treasury will be at the forefront of implementation, delivering $270 billion in tax incentives as part of the $369 billion the Inflation Reduction Act dedicates to combating climate change.”

“If the USA’s 123 million or so households spend around $4,000 a year each on energy (excluding transport) then that’s about $400 billion. Yet the inflation Reduction Act is spending a massive $369 billion subsidising supposed ‘renewables’, which are just a minor part of the USA’s energy use. In fact, wind and solar make up only about 3% of USA energy use.

“That brings us back to the claim made by Inside Climate News that “New Wind and Solar Are Cheaper Than the Costs to Operate All But One Coal-Fired Power Plant in the United States”.

It’s total and utter bilge, nonsense, rubbish like almost all the claims churned out to a gullible public by a compliant media desperately spewing out climate-catastrophist propaganda to prepare us for the colder, darker, more miserable future our rulers have in store for us.”

A little care needs to be taken interpreting the temporal aspects of the statements (400 billion per annum v 369 billion for how long? Ten years?

But the case is valid. Subsidies are making “renewables” appear cheap, whilst punitive taxation and restrictive practises are making fossil fuels appear expensive. Political measures that create poverty and hence disease and ignorance.

Onwards!

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