Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t MarkW – President Biden has announced the entire coal industry is shutting down because coal is too expensive and unreliable.
Biden says coal plants ‘all across America’ will be shut down, replaced with wind and solar
Biden argued that it’s ‘cheaper’ to generate electricity from wind and solar than it is from coal
By Andrew Miller FOXBusiness
Published November 4, 2022 6:22pm EDTPresident Biden said Friday that coal plants are too expensive to operate, and “we’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America” in order to shift to wind power in a comment that drew criticism from the Republican National Committee.
“I was in Massachusetts about a month ago on the site of the largest old coal plant in America,” Biden said at an event in Carlsbad, California, on Friday. “Guess what? It cost them too much money. They can’t count. No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it. Even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of the existence of the plant.
“So it’s going to become a wind generation. And all they’re doing is it’s going to save them a hell of a lot of money and using the same transmission line that they transmitted the coal-fired electric on, we’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar power, also providing tax credits to help families buy energy efficient appliances, whether it’s your refrigerator or your coffee maker, for solar panels on your home, weatherize your home, things that save an average, experts say, a minimum of $500 a year for the average family.”
Biden’s comment prompted a response from a Twitter account run by the Republican National Committee, which said, “Joe Biden celebrates coal plant workers losing their jobs.”
Biden added that it is “cheaper to generate electricity from wind and solar than it is from coal and oil.”
“Literally cheaper,” the president said. “Not a joke.”
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On the campaign trail in 2020, candidate Biden suggested that coal miners facing an economy where their job is potentially phased out should “learn to program.”
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Read more: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-says-coal-plants-all-across-america-will-shut-down-replaced-with-wind-solar
WUWT has already covered Biden’s wild claims about coal in Massachusetts.
No amount of wind and solar can reliably supply the USA during adverse winter weather.
Solar power doesn’t work at night, or in winter – Northern states especially simply don’t receive enough sunlight.
Wind alone cannot carry the USA’s energy needs during long periods when solar is unavailable. Wind simply isn’t a reliable source of energy.
Consider the Texas ice storm in February 2021 (see the graph at the top of the page). Solar dropped to almost nothing for over 10 days, and wind wasn’t available for significant periods. Nuclear power and fossil fuel, particularly gas, saved Texas from energy oblivion during that period.
Of course, I don’t believe anybody could reasonably expect President Biden to understand such issues. He doesn’t seem to understand much of anything these days.
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“Biden says coal plants ‘all across America’ will be shut down, replaced with wind and solar. ‘cheaper’ to generate electricity from wind and solar than it is from coal.” Somebody needs to shut this guy up. He is making statements that are so wrong that it will not reflect well on the DemocRATs. It almost seems as if his comments are just random thoughts that have no bases in truth.
Will not reflect well? They’re all goose-stepping to the Eco-Nazi dogma, don’t see how Biden is any different.
The Demon-rats would love to stop their anointed top Rat from scurrying round the country making nonsense statements that they can not defend. It is quite funny now to watch them wince and bury their heads in their hands, as old sleepy Joe comes out with yet another toe curling embarrassing false statement.
They would have escorted him off to the old folks rest home a year ago if they didn’t have Cackling Kamala as VP standing ready to take over. In extremis they could have considered bypassing both of the top Rats and asked the Speaker to assume control. That is that makes this so fun to watch, Pelosi is as crazy as the other two. Her only positive policy is she does not want to ban plastic, when asked why? she said, “how would I get my surgery done”…..
Classic Big Brother Marxist doublethink. Whatever your own defect is, declare it to be an attribute of your oppenent.
Renewable energy is expensive and unreliable, not coal.
PS over here in the UK the media are againt subjecting us to an onslaught of lies about renewable energy.
Whoever is behind this nonense has governments in its pockets and a global reach, Scary.
There should be excellent money-making opportunities for somebody exporting cheap coal-fired electricity across the border from Mexico. Or do they have mechanisms in place for preventing anything so sensible?
It’s never worth listening to Biden, he is delusional and mentally unable to understand anything, except the last buz line from the PR men.
It’s never worth listening to any modern day democrat, but it can be productive to mine their spew for manure that can be used to illustrate their stupidity, ignorance and naked tyrannical tendencies.
Coal is only more expensive than it used to be due to two democratic presidents and their executive orders. It will remain far cheaper and more reliable than solar and wind.
Go, Jo!
No, seriously: Go Somewhere Else.
You’re embarrassing yourself.
I bet the railroads really liked this idea, too. They employ an enormous number of people to move the coal around.
The Democrats will be run out of town, including D.C. in a bit. As it sinks in and liberal policy is rejected wholesale I predict widespread demonstrations leading to violent riots. The bolshevik tendencies of the few will be evident. The msm will present the few as having a noble cause and these “inspired” mobs will be trying to save us from ourselves. The nation will be held captive, again, by the mobs. We will have a choice at that point whether to be held prisoner by the few or reject that threat by any and all means possible. Get ready for battles nit seen in 60 years…
The educated liberal is so smug, so arrogantly confident that their schemes are sound. They’ll show you research paper after paper proving it.
Well how about their solutions to the War on Poverty, illigitimacy, public education and a dozen other fixes?
Humans defy paper research. A reexamination and different solutions to what ails us is the first priority of the new Congress. I don’t care if it takes years as long as we hakt the big lies. Results, not more research. If its broke then DUMP it!
According the “best and the brightest”, as they called themselves, the so called War on Poverty couldn’t possibly fail. As you say, they had paper after paper that proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
What was the result? The War on Poverty devastated minority families and created even more poverty than existed prior to the War on Poverty.
Had we done nothing, increasing wealth caused by a growing economy, would have lifted millions of people out of poverty. This process had been continuing for hundreds of years, and showed no signs of slowing down.
Government almost always makes any problem it tries to solve, worse.
Rather reminds me of Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles holding a gun to himself to force the people to do what he wanted. As he described the people when they fell for it.
Morons
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