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PETER MURPHY: If you like your appliances, you can't keep them, according to Joe Biden
by: Peter Murphy 04/22/2024
 
In the name of supposed efficiency and saving the planet from the fatuous prediction of a 1.5 degree average temperature increase in the next 26 years (give or take), the Biden administration has from its beginning declared war on Americans’ household appliances. As with so many other policies in the administration’s global warming arsenal, mandating invariably higher-cost household items is another dagger at Americans’ family budgets.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy released final “energy efficiency” requirements for residential washers and dryers that it claims will save consumers $39 billion in the next 30 years and reduce 71 metro tons of “harmful carbon emissions” over the same period, opined Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm. More fantastical than these numbers is her assertion that American households will reap $1 trillion (!) from forcing Americans to scrap all the household appliances in the administration’s crosshairs.

This is the same Secretary Granholm who lied to Congress about holding stocks in companies over which she has federal jurisdiction, and failed to disclose such holdings – yet kept her job. But I digress.

https://www.humanevents.com/2024/04/22/peter-murphy-if-you-like-your-appliances-you-cant-keep-them-according-to-joe-biden
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Bidenomics ? ‘Green Jobs’ Vanish As New York’s Offshore Wind Debacle Killed
by Amy Furr  3 hours ago 
 

People hoping to find work assembling offshore wind turbine engines and blades at the Port of Coeymans in New York are out of luck. [emphasis, links added]

State and corporate executives previously said there may have been around 870 high-paying jobs at the site, the Times Union reported Monday.


The work would have involved assembling the engines and blades built by GE Vernova and LM Wind Power.

However, the Union report said both of the offshore wind farms wanting to utilize the area for the work scrapped those plans, and the jobs disappeared with that decision.

The outlet continued:

https://climatechangedispatch.com/bidenomics-green-jobs-vanish-as-new-yorks-offshore-wind-debacle-killed/
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Pookie's Toons / Re: Today's Toons 4/25/24
« Last post by Polly Ticks on Today at 11:56:44 am »
Thanks, Pookie.
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Biden Gives Big Wind Preferential Offshore Leasing After Issuing Restrictive Oil And Gas Plan
by Nick Pope  9 hours ago in Green Energy, News Reading Time: 2 mins read
 

The Biden administration unveiled a plan Wednesday to hold up to a dozen offshore wind leases over the next several years as the industry struggles to cement itself in the U.S. [emphasis, links added]

The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced its five-year schedule for offshore wind leasing, which envisions lease sales for plots in the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and waters off of American territories.


The agency expects to offer four sales in 2024, one each in 2025 and 2026, two in 2027, and four in 2028.

The offshore wind industry is struggling in the U.S., with developers up and down the East Coast backing out of contracts or requesting further assistance from the government as inflation, high borrowing costs, supply chain backups, and logistical snags have taken their toll on projects.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/biden-gives-big-wind-preferential-offshore-leasing-after-issuing-restrictive-oil-and-gas-plan/
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Pookie's Toons / Re: Today's Toons 4/25/24
« Last post by pookie18 on Today at 11:53:22 am »
Gu'd on ya mate! Have a beautiful day.

Glad you liked 'em, 240B!
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Wisconsin Utility Proposes Third Rate Hike in Three Years for Renewables
 
Linnea Lueken
April 18, 2024
 
Utility company We Energies is proposing a its third rate-hike in as many years for its Wisconsin customers, citing the costs from shutting down fossil fuel plants and the integration of renewables.

The company filed proposed rates for review by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW), which will set the rates for electricity, as well as natural gas and steam service, for the years 2025 and 2026.

We Energies cites three major reasons for their proposed hike in their press release, “reducing customer outages, building infrastructure needed to support jobs and economic growth in Wisconsin, and meeting new EPA environmental rules.”

https://heartlanddailynews.com/2024/04/wisconsin-utility-proposes-third-rate-hike-in-three-years-for-renewables/
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Fortescue: Biden Forcing Green Hydrogen Producers to Use Renewables Drives Up Prices
11 hours ago Eric Worrall 15 Comments

Essay by Eric Worrall

“… The “hourly matching” rule will force hydrogen producers to either cease production when renewables are not available … or sign up for excess renewable power …”

Fortescue slams Biden administration’s green hydrogen tax rules

Peter Ker Resources reporter
Updated Apr 21, 2024 – 2.09pm, first published at 2.00pm

Fortescue says the proposed design of the Biden administration’s green incentives scheme could triple the cost of low-carbon hydrogen projects …

The iron ore group has an ambitious strategy to become a major force in hydrogen and renewable energy …

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/24/fortescue-biden-forcing-green-hydrogen-producers-to-use-renewables-drives-up-prices/
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Nutritive Value of Plants Growing in Enhanced CO2 Concentrations (eCO2)
 
We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest research report Nutritive Value of Plants Growing in Enhanced CO2 Concentrations (eCO2).

Despite many years of claims that increasing concentrations of CO2 are an “existential threat” to life on Earth, one cannot identify any harm that has been done. In fact, the only clear result of increasing CO2 has been an overall greening of the Earth and increasing productivity of agricultural and forest crops.

The evidence for greening of the Earth from eCO2 is now too obvious to deny. In recent years, some researchers have claimed that that nutritional values are negatively affected by elevated CO2 concentrations. Media promoters of climate alarmism have seized on these results to further demonize CO2.

In this paper we explain why the nutritional value of our more abundant crops can and will remain high as atmospheric CO2 concentrations increase toward values more representative of those existing throughout most of Earth’s history.

While this is a somewhat technical report, it is a valuable tool for you to put in your quiver to use the next time you see increased CO2 being linked to declining nutrition.

Read the full report here.

https://co2coalition.org/publications/nutritive-value-of-plants-growing-in-enhanced-co2-concentrations-eco2/
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Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 4/24/2024

In many states, Democrats can’t win unless they cheat, and that’s why they want easily-abused universal mail-in voting to become to the norm. To that end, Democrats sued Texas (yet again) over mail-in voting limitations, and once again their lawsuit against election security laws was denied by the Supreme Court.

    An attempt to revive the Texas Democratic Party’s 2020 challenge to the state’s mail-in ballot restrictions was denied this week by the U.S. Supreme Court.

    The court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari from Joseph Cascino, Marie Sansing, and Brenda Li Garcia — residents of Texas who do not qualify for mail-in voting under current law. They filed their petition back in December.

    In Texas anyone may vote early in person, but only those aged 65 or older, disabled, or out of their county of residence during the election may vote by mail.

In Harris County, I’m sure that Lina Hidalgo is very disappointed that vote tabulation sites won’t be able to pull out boxes of miraculously overlooked mail-in ballots to alter tallies at 3 AM on November 5th…

More: https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=57863
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