Agelbert"We need more politicians to step up to the crisis of climate change, as has Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Life as we know it on earth depends on it." freedomev > agelbert So true and even the majority of repubs.
It is only the repub leaders in Congress and President whom keep the FF corporate welfare, $600B/yr in the US .
Now add these subsidies to the cost of FFs and not using them saves us about $1.2T/yr!!
So just how does not paying $1.2T/yr cost more than RE not paying it?
Fact is on just 5 yrs of FF costs, we could get of FFs.
And then pay 50%-20% for RE once switched.
What is needed is clear signals from the government by
making those whom use FFs pay their full costs instead
of foisting it on the taxpayers. And use that money to do the switch which can be as simple as tax and dividend going to the lower 80% of income.
One can do a PPA and sell it to poor people at a discount or free covering their cost for 20+ yrs for $3k.
Lightweight EVs can be made quickly and greatly increase employment locally by building, selling and maintaining
them locally. Especially ones you can bring or drive inside. These can be under $1k with 50+ mile range and cost
little for 20 yrs.
Insulation CHP, etc to lower their energy use.
A studio can be built for only $20k supplying them with shelter, energy, water, septic built in plus lightweight
transport plus the land for 20 yrs.
Fact is it is the lowest cost way as I know, it is how I live well on minimal SS with all monthly costs under $200
including food, transport.
Thus leaving me $550/month to live with plus income from various deals that become available allows me to slowly
build my all composite 63 Vette coupe looking EV.
So it really isn't hard to live FF free. In fact living with FFs is what costs more not even including GHG effects.
agelbert >
freedomev Freedomev ✨, You are 100% RIGHT! 👍🌞
💐 Thank you for your wisdom and your admirable life style. If your advice was followed by our governments
(local, state and national), we would have transitioned to 100% Clean Energy by this time.
We are almost out of time.
Zero Hour Platform and attacks on them by the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn 🦕🦖https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/07/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-on-60-minutes-push-our-technological-capacities-to-the-furthest-extent-possible/#comment-4275177388