The infographic above is courtesy of No Labels from this post at RealClearPolicy. I found point #2 particularly interesting.
The $1.5 trillion “infrastructure bill” includes $27 billion for electrical grid improvement. That’s 1.8% of the total.
The infographic above is courtesy of No Labels from this post at RealClearPolicy. I found point #2 particularly interesting.
The $1.5 trillion “infrastructure bill” includes $27 billion for electrical grid improvement. That’s 1.8% of the total.
The quotes around infrastructure were, I’m sure, intentional.
Its a double whammy. It’s no more an infrastructure bill than the moon is made of cheese. And these guys are no more environmentalists than 1.8%.
As always, the question is why do voters tolerate this fraud?
I have read that around 10% of the infrastructure bill goes towards “infrastructure.†The rest to pet democrat projects. I really don’t understand why the Dems seem so intent to bankrupt this country.
I have seen several different numbers on grid spending. The AP has it at $66 billion. I guess you can see water treatment and rural broadband as pet projects for democrats.
On transmission, Think there are issues with just getting approval to build new lines. Pretty sure there are proposals in the bill to make those approvals easier.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-bills-38b84f0e9fcc8e68646eedf6608c4c70
Steve
If the EV’s ever catch on (dubious) or are imposed (probable), we will need to triple the electrical generating capacity and transmission capacity all the way to the individual end user (you in your apartment). We will also need to build about 600 to 1000 1100 MW nuclear power stations. We have to start right now.
Manhattan Contrarian has done the arithmetic on California’s proposed renewables plus batteries electrical system. The costs are astronomical, and the proposal cannot be implemented.
Since the politicians will not and cannot face reality, whatever they do will be piecemeal and tentative, and we will enter a era of brownouts and blackouts. Viz. parts of the South today.
The cost of increasing transmission does not increase linearly. The best projections I have seen say it’s n log n but I think they’re optimistic. AFAICT practically no one thinks the present highly concentrated strategy is workable in the future.