Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Howard Cork Hayden; According to Bernie Sanders, Nationalization of US energy production will give the government the control it needs to implement the Green New Deal.
Bernie Sanders indicates climate plan will require nationalization of US energy production
The “Green New Deal” proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., seeks a complete transition to “energy efficiency” and “sustainable energy” — much of which would be owned and administered by the federal government.
During an appearance on MSNBC Thursday night, Sanders told host Chris Hayes that the U.S. needed an “aggressive” federal approach to producing electricity and nodded after Hayes claimed he proposed a “federal takeover of the whole thing.”
Sanders agreed with Hayes’ assessment that he wanted to create a “Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA] extension for the whole country.” “You can’t nibble around the edges anymore,” Sanders added.
Sanders says "you can't nibble around the edges," proposes government takeover of energy productionhttps://t.co/vvi6qWBsKy pic.twitter.com/0oinlenWbR
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 23, 2019…
Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-climate-plan-federal-takeover-energy
For once I agree with Bernie Sanders.
Nationalizing energy production would drastically reduce the USA’s carbon footprint, if the catastrophic Venezuelan experience of nationalizing their oil industry is any guide.
Of course once a socialist has successfully expropriated the owners of a major industry, there is nothing to stop them targeting other sectors of the economy.
Bernie Sanders in 2011;
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These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who’s the banana republic now?
Source: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-gaps-disparities-that-threaten-america
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The President doesn’t have the power to make a country Socialist. He can do a lot of “Socialist like” damages though.
One of the things that gets missed is how the left is complaining about income inequity. It wasn’t that long ago when their complaint was poverty. What does that say?
All the people I hear expressing grave concern about income inequality seem to be pretty well-off. I always ask them if they have a household income of more than $60000. That’s the national median in the US. When (Not if) they answer “yes” I ask them whether they contribute everything over $60k to the poor. That would eliminate inequality after all. The very suggestion horrifies them.
Does this surprise anyone? The means of production in the hands of the state. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
That may be the ideal, but here’s how it always ends up:
From each, everything
To each, according to how well connected their family is.
Yes, PLEASE let Bernie win the nomination! Nuff said. 🙂
There’s an old adage: “Be careful what you ask for.”
Democrats were praying for Reagan and Trump to win their respective nominations.
According to the “smart” money, they were the weakest candidates.
Believe me when I say I know where you’re coming from – it’s just that I’m quite certain he’d lose.
Or has sanity really become that scare a commodity?
How does this plan look as a way to combat BOTH GlowBULL Warming and the economic inequalities we deal with in international trade?
How many rant book titles does be want? He already made a million off the previous one.
What a colossal idiot.
If we’re lucky (and we frequently are), he’ll run on his own party ticket and siphon off enough votes to take the election away from the democrats. It’s happened before and he can make it happen again. I have great faith in his ability as a sponge-brained dermatophyte to absorb a large chunk of the votes that would other wise go to who or whatever gets the democrat nod.
Hey, Bernie, the climate science is not settled.
Bernie: But..but..but..97 percent!
No Bernie, it’s only three percent.
Bernie: But…but…but..Hockey Stick!
Sorry Bernie, no cigar. The Hockey Stick is science fiction.
Bernie: But…but…but…World Socialist Domination!
Move to Cuba, Bernie. Take your delusions with you.
Trump is very lucky to have so many unpaid committee members such as Sanders working for Trump’s reelection!
I wouldn’t trust Bernie Sanders to run a lemonade stand. I wouldn’t trust him to run a washing machine. The only thing he has ever run is his mouth. He is good at that.
If the US government nationalized the oil and gas industry, would Texas leave the USA?
I think Texas would leave the Union over nationalization of the oil industry. They would do so because nationalization would bankrupt Texas and Texas does not want to be bankrupted by socialist fools.
Nationalizing the oil industry or any other industry will be easier said that done for Bernie even if he does win the presidency. Not everyone in the United States is as delusional as Bernie Sanders and the other Democrat Socialists.
They don’t have a currency. That is always the problem any time there is talk of secession. Lets say they want to export their oil. Instant blockade. Secession was tried once. It did not work out well for those who were secessionists.
And I lived in Texas for about forty years. Went there K-12. Went to law school there. Took oil and gas in law school and had to pass an oil and gas question on the bar. Worked for LaVaca and Exxon. Still own lots of Exxon stock.
Secession is a really dumb idea for any state. And lots of oil and gas won’t make it any easier.
How it works.
a Socialist government has nothing to win on making a person wealthier. Because then that person is more inclined to vote Republican. But by making a rich person poorer that person is has more interest voting socialist.
A Republican government has everything to win by making life better for all people as they are more inclined to vote Republican.
Thus a vote on any socialist is a vote confirming your lack of logic reasoning.
Is it why the Silicon Valley is mostly Democratic?
The Billionaires living and working in Silicon Valley made their Billions through Capitalism, but now they want to pull up the ladder to their Utopia and prevent PEONS from entering. Socialism provides that mechanism. They are protected from any downside of high taxes and compliance with punishing regulations imposed on the rest of industry by the loopholes their enablers in Congress and state legislatures and government agencies create for them and the PACs they create in exchange for
BRIBES“political contributions”There is no climate crisis. The climate change we are experiencing is very small and is caused by the sun and the oceans over which mankind has no control. There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate and there is plenty of scientific rationale to support the idea that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is zero. So even if mankind stopped making use of fossil fuels on a global bases, the effort would have no effect on climate. If we here in the USA want to significantly reduce our use of fossil fuels then what we need to do is gradually replace fossil fueled power plants with nuclear power plants but apparently that is not what Mr. Sanders wants to do. Mr. Sander’s trashing of the US economy will have no effect on climate.
Make no mistake here. Energy is the enabler of capitalism. The greens see capitalism as their enemy and openly say so.
When they take control of energy…all energy, then kiss goodbye to your freedom, because that is what capitalism actually is. It is the freedom to advance and secure your own ambitions, energy is the key enabler of that ambition.
The Greens/socialists do not want anyone to have independent freedom. For them freedom is reserved for the state and state authorities alone, that in their world view.
The climate alarm movement is nothing to do with climate per se, it is simply a tool adopted by the left to secure control.
Venezuelisation awaits the USA is Sanders or any of the other zealots on the left, get into power.
Nationalization of Energy resources and distribution is a page from the Central Planner’s playbook. Directly in the case of communism and socialism, indirectly by resource royalties, development permits, lately eco-regulations in the case of “capitalist” economies.
Gee, Bernie, this Communist/Trotskyite stuff just doesn’t play very well in Peoria.
Haven’t you figured that one out yet? Hasn’t anyone from the DNC told you that? Are your handlers leaving you clueless?
I’m not for the “Nationalization” of anything, let alone energy production.
But I do wonder if Bernie would be saying that after Trump wins reelection?
No more windmills. No more solar. All because the head, whoever that may be, of this nation was given the power to say “No”?
Power grabs only sound good to those who think they will have the Power.
Since the government is owned by the big corporations, what is the problem, capitalists?
Don’t believe me? Here is the Princeton study that shows that the economic elites get they policies they want adopted at a far greater rate than average citizens. I will leave it for the statisticians to explain the data better than I can.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B/S1537592714001595a.pdf/testing_theories_of_american_politics_elites_interest_groups_and_average_citizens.pdf
I live in “Bernie” country, ie Vermont. Shop for a few things at a local food coop, buy most other things in sales tax free New Hampshire or free shipping/no tax Internet.
Many Bernie stickers on all the cars. Very progressive area, all for open borders and paving over good farmland with solar and wind farms.
Absolutely disgusting.
Was at a local farm supply store and noticed a vehicle exiting the parking lot with the hand written “Climate Emergency” on the back window. Saw the young owner at a local grocery store and asked “Climate Emergency, what does that mean?”
Got the usual “We’re all gonna die if we don’t stop using fossil fuels” response, then asked how do you know that? The response was”The local paper and my support group said so, it must be true”.
At that point I gave up. These people are doomed, but sadly around these parts, they are firmly in control.
I guess this means Bernie can’t decide which beach side property or whole island to buy with his rant-driven book revenue. Those properties are still mighty expensive and require lots of book deals and campus speaker fees. As in the case of Matt Simmons and his Maine property, there is still time to pick and choose.
Chernobyl is a good example of state run energy.
If Bernie keeps talking Hilary will be forced to save the entire party ….again .
Then lose ….again .
The DNC needs to get real and find some new sugar daddies .
Quit being beholding to a fraud industry and promising to tear down the USA .
After all isn’t that the goal of the Club Of Rome and the one world government cartel ?
The Venezuela quote at the bottom is incorrectly attributed to Sanders; it clearly says that it was written by the Valley News Editorial Board