A Kamala Victory Means Green New Deal Lawfare

By Jason Isaac

Expect Kamala Harris’ Justice Department to wage Green New Deal lawfare if she is elected president on Nov. 5.

As with every last issue pertaining to this election, Harris has not said much about the substance of her climate policy. But a review of her record suggests she’d be amenable to unleashing the Justice Department on energy providers, and her conspicuously quiet allies on the climate left are optimistic she’ll do just that.

Unleashing the Justice Department on American energy companies means hurtling this country deep into the last century. Traditional energy sources are essential for the world historic quality of life most Americans enjoy. Litigation will drive prices up. The lawsuits will also strongarm a transition to electric vehicles, stoves, and water heaters that will remain unpopular with most people because they aren’t affordable and don’t work as well as gas-powered alternatives. Green New Deal lawfare unfolding at the state and local levels all over the country means to force those appliances onto an unwilling public through settlement terms or public spending funded by big money verdicts.

Harris is already aligned with climate lawfare. Harris investigated whether Exxon “repeatedly lied to the public and its shareholders about the risk to its business from climate change” during her tenure as California attorney general, according to the Los Angeles Times. The probe did not result in a lawsuit, though she was supportive of legal claims targeting energy providers as a presidential candidate. 

Harris parroted claims typical of climate lawsuits during her ill-fated 2020 bid. She accused energy providers of concealing inside information about emissions, much as tobacco companies were accused of misleading customers about the health consequences of smoking.

“You should be really prepared to look at a serious fine or be charged with a crime,” Harris said at a 2019 town hall in South Carolina. She made a similar remark in an interview she gave to Mother Jones.

Harris has of course renounced much of her 2020 platform, but climate cultists sense she remains willing to pursue energy providers in court. A coalition of alarmist groups is pushing Harris to direct the Justice Department to investigate the industry, calling such a probe “long overdue.” Democrat partisans like Sheldon Whitehouse and Jamie Raskin are similarly pressuring DOJ to take this step.

One step DOJ could take – and the climate left is already calling for it – is to open a probe under the anti-mafia statute, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. That means holding defendants liable not just for emissions, but also for political speech and actions that support a pro-gas energy policy. Democratic lawmakers favorably discussed this avenue in May as a former DOJ official testified to the Senate Budget Committee.

How would anti-energy lawfare cash out for the average American? The cost of settlements or big money verdicts will inevitably reach consumers across numerous points of service. Everything will cost more. You’ll notice this most when paying an energy bill, filling up your tank, or buying a plane ticket. But cheap and abundant energy is essential to all businesses, and there will be hidden penalties everywhere.

Moreover, the climate plaintiffs are already mapping their plans for spending money climate lawfare delivers. These plans include investments in EV-charging infrastructure, mandated electric appliances in new builds, and even repurposing neighborhoods to create 15-minute cities. This is social reengineering by lawsuit, a foisting of lifestyle choices on unwilling participants.

With preelection forecasts favoring a Republican takeover of the Senate, it’s quite likely a president Kamala Harris would not move landmark climate laws through Congress. That means she would have to think creatively about birddogging energy companies, and siccing the Justice Department on them is a likely step. 


Jason Isaac, a former state representative in Texas, is founder and CEO of The American Energy Institute,

This article was originally published by RealClearEnergy and made available via RealClearWire.

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November 5, 2024 2:01 am

Could they get a more ugly picture?

Reply to  Jim Masterson
November 5, 2024 4:31 am

You think this is ugly?
Why does it matter?

strativarius
Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 5:00 am

No sense of aesthetics? Maybe that’s why soup gets thrown onto artistic masterpieces.

Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 5:36 am

The ugly picture for the US is, the energy policies of dysfunctional California being imposed on all of the US, if Harris were “elected” by the Democrat ballot counting machine. Its motto is count, count, count for as long as it takes to “win”

Puppet Harris, who can’t do a give and take press session without spouting word salads, would be totally controlled by the dark forces of the Deep State, just like Biden/Harris during the past 4 years.

In 2020, Biden was kept in the basement so he would not run off his mouth into nonsense. Then it was revealed he could not manage a teleprompter, or a press conference, or a bicycle, or a set of stairs, and tended to wander off.
He had become in ineffective Puppet, and needed to be replaced, by the Party Elite, by another Puppet.

Reply to  wilpost
November 5, 2024 7:43 am

The question would be whether Harris trusts her advisors and can judge whether those advisors are trustable. As opposed to Trump who we know appears to trust his personal knowledge more than that of his advisors.

Nobody, including Trump or Harris is actually smart, thorough, dedicated, and focused enough to run the entire country’s political and economic machinery. They have to rely on interpreting what their advisors tell them to make big decisions and leave the rest to the workings of the machinery.

So Trump’s problem is not listening to his advisors, while Harris’s problem is likely listening too much to ideologues….

Reply to  DMacKenzie
November 5, 2024 8:48 am

Biden and Harris are puppets.
Their advisors are picked by the Deep State.
The Deep state tells a cabal of flunkies what should be on the teleprompter, etc.
.
Trump was a political neophyte stepping into the lion’s den of the Obama-leaning federal bureaucracy 
Some of his “best” advisors/aides turned out to be not his soul mates, and/or were two-faced, some were Deep State creatures.
When his high-level advisors, with their own agendas, could not control him, as they do Biden/Harris, they undermined him.
Trump is a creative developer/builder, a mover and shaker, as was his father, as are his sons, as are Musk, RFK, jr., Ramaswamy, etc.
The US and World needs such people near the top. 
.
Someone recently asked me why I like Trump.
My answer was, I do not like a lot of things about Trump and Harris, but the Trump/Vance team is the much better choice for America.
.
However, this election is not about choosing the most likable, or joyful, or celebrity-loved person.
This election is about voting between two vastly different ideologies.
This election is about voting for the country we want to leave our children and grandchildren.
The Trump/Vance team represents that future and has proven that they can deliver.
Some are former Democrats, who became Republicans. All are patriots to the core.
Trump, a former New York Democrat, served his country for 4 years without pay.
.

Reply to  wilpost
November 5, 2024 8:53 am

Trump was right about the Deep State!
Remember when he said Drain-the-Swamp. It’s a deep swamp!!!
This is why they manipulated you to hate him. He is a threat, not to Democracy, but to them!! You must know some details to be informed:
.
THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN USED TO WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS.
CALIF GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM IS NANCY PELOSI’S NEPHEW
ADAM SHIFF’S SISTER IS MARRIED TO ONE OF GEORGE SOROS’ SONS.
JOHN KERRY’S DAUGHTER IS MARRIED TO A MULLAH’S SON IN IRAN.
 HILLARY’S DAUGHTER CHELSEA IS MARRIED TO GEORGE SOROS’ NEPHEW.
ABC NEWS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IAN CAMERON IS MARRIED TO SUSAN RICE, OBAMA’S FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER.
CBS PRESIDENT DAVID RHODES IS THE BROTHER OF BEN RHODES, OBAMA’S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.
ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT CLAIRE SHIPMAN IS MARRIED TO JAY CARNEY, FORMER OBAMA WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY.
ABC NEWS AND UNIVISION REPORTER MATTHEW JAFFE IS MARRIED TO KATIE HOGAN, OBAMA’S FORMER DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY
ABC PRESIDENT BEN SHERWOOD IS THE BROTHER OF ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, OBAMA’S FORMER SPECIAL ADVISER.
CNN VP VIRGINIA MOSELEY IS MARRIED TO TOM NIDES, FORMER HILLARY CLINTON’S DEPUTY SECRETARY.
.
THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A “STACKED DECK”. IF YOU HAD A HUNCH THE CORPORATE NEWS MENU WAS SOMEWHAT RIGGED AND YOU COULDN’T PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT, THIS MIGHT HELP YOU SOLVE THE PUZZLE. 
.  
Now you know why no one is investigated. They all have their hands in the cookie jar!
You might remember James Comey who investigated the Clinton email scandal and the Clinton Foundation, and made the final decision to not recommend prosecution by the DOJ. 
It turns out that the Clinton Foundation was audited by the law firm DLA Piper, a powerhouse in DC 
One of the executives there was in charge of the Clinton Foundation audit. 
Who was it? Peter Comey, James Comey’s brother. 
Peter Comey held an executive position with the Washington law firm that did the audit of the Clinton foundation in 2015.  
Peter Comey was officially DLA Piper “Senior Director of Real Estate for The Americas in 2015 when the Clinton Foundation scandals first broke, and Hillary was preparing her Presidential campaign. 
Not only was DLA Piper, the firm where Comey’s brother worked, involved in the audit of the Clinton Foundation, but according to the foundation’s donor records, DLA Piper has given between $50 – 100k to the Foundation.
.
It gets even cozier. 
DLA Piper executive Douglas Emhoff, who impregnated the nanny, during a prior marriage, is taking an extended leave of absence from the firm to campaign for Harris. 
Who is Douglas Emhoff? He is the husband of Kamala Harris. Just a coincidence?  
You can’t make this stuff up!  
And it only gets worse. This infamous “Family Tree” will make your head spin… THE SWAMP IS DEEP!!
.
Dominion (Voting Machine Supplier) serves 40% of the US market. It is embedded in 30 states
The state of Texas rejected the machines.   
Admiral Peter Neffenger is on Biden’s transition team.
Neffenger was the President of the board of Smartmatic (another Voting Machine Supplier), which entered into an agreement with Dominion in 2009  
Smartmatic counted votes in Venezuela  
Smartmatic is connected to the Philippine Voter Fraud
Smartmatic is run by Lord Mark Malloch Brown, who works for George Soros (he and Brown are life-long friends) 
Brown chairs the Boards of a number of non-profits, including the Open Society Foundation and the Centre for Global Development.   
Open Society Foundation is owned by George Soros 
Smartmatic partnered with DLA Piper Global.
.
Guess who owns Dominion? Blum Capital Partners LP
Guess who is on the board for the company? Richard Blum who is Dianne Feinstein’s husband. 
.
Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, is a major investor. It is rumored the two are worth $250 million
An aide to Nancy Pelosi, Nadeam Elshami, was hired by Dominion Voting Systems.
Dominion Voting Systems is listed as a $25,000 -$50,000 donor to the Clinton Foundation in 2014, by The Washington Post 
.
Georgia Governor Kemp used Dominion Voting Systems after Texas and Florida rejected them  
Dominion has a lobbyist named Jared Thomas 
Jared Thomas was Governor Brian Kemp’s Chief of Staff/Press Secretary from 2012 to 2015.

Reply to  wilpost
November 5, 2024 8:55 am

You must remember the Feinstein, Kavanaugh, Soros connections to understand this next information  
Debra Katz (Christine Ford’s lawyer, who accused Kavanaugh of rape) worked for George-Soros at the Open Society Foundation.  
Debra Katz also worked at Project on Government Oversight (POGO).  
POGO is funded by Soros’s Open Society Foundation.  
POGO is the co-signer of the letter Diane Feinstein presented against Kavanaugh’s nomination.  
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Kamala Harris did not prosecute One West Bank for their fraud, when she had the authority, after all, Soros Owned One West Bank 
Now you know why controllable/puppet Harris became controllable/puppet Biden’s running mate in 2020
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The execrable Anne Applebaum, New York Times Journalist, married to Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s hawkish foreign minister and major globalist neocon. The pair see Russia as the Evil Empire, to be divided into 7 manageable pieces.
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Victoria Nuland, former Assistant Secretary of State, spent $5 billion from 1991 to 2014, to prepare the Kiev coup d’etat in 2014, married to Robert Kagan, editor-at-large Washington Post, which did not endorse Harris, resulting in Kagan resigning from WaPo. The LA Times also did not endorse Harris
Many leaders of labor unions, whose members are overwhelmingly for Trump, did not endorse Harris
.
Oh, what a tangled web of lies they wove 
Author remains anonymous 

KevinM
Reply to  wilpost
November 5, 2024 12:00 pm

I understand there’s an election happening but … It’s a science/climate blog. There are infinite sites for politics.

Derg
Reply to  KevinM
November 5, 2024 12:45 pm

Most science / climate is all politics….how do you think they get paid?

Reply to  Derg
November 5, 2024 2:47 pm

From the cookie jar

Reply to  KevinM
November 5, 2024 2:41 pm

Kevin,
The Deep State “US is exceptional hubris” got us deeper into the renewables mess, which is related to energy.
Know thy enemy, find the weak points and attack.

Climate is a label attached to big wind, solar, battery, heat pump, EV bills to to keep the Deep State cookie jar filled

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  wilpost
November 5, 2024 12:07 pm

Do you have a link for the above?

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
November 5, 2024 2:48 pm

It is posted on X
I will get you a link and post it, after I go to my Desktop Mac

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
November 5, 2024 4:07 pm

Sparta Nova 4

A Program for a Greater America with a Much Smaller Federal Government
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/a-program-for-a-greater-america
by Willem Post

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  wilpost
November 6, 2024 7:19 am

Thank you.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  wilpost
November 6, 2024 7:25 am

The one valid reason for voting for Trump is HE CAN’T BE BOUGHT.

Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 11:50 am

You need to look passed the facade.. not great to start with

Listen to the vapid, vacuous cackling idiocy.

See the inner deceit, lies and depravity.

The Kamal is a very ugly person !!

Reply to  bnice2000
November 5, 2024 2:50 pm

Kamala’s cabal will be an ugly clique

Reply to  MyUsername
November 6, 2024 1:12 am

Congratulations to Trump! Ugly Harris didn’t concede today–yet.

Reply to  Jim Masterson
November 6, 2024 3:19 am

She has been told the count, count, count operation will go on for days until Democrats “win”. It takes time to manufacture millions of ballots and “ process” them, as it did in 2020, to carry
Biden, on life support, over the line

Trying to Play Nice
Reply to  wilpost
November 6, 2024 8:52 am

The Republicans are ready for them this time. The numbers are too big to overcome.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Jim Masterson
November 6, 2024 7:20 am

She left her party at Howard U. early and did not give a speech. How nice of her to treat her supporters with that level of respect.

Reply to  Jim Masterson
November 6, 2024 9:35 am

If she is lucky, she will be forgotten and tossed into the dustbin of history.
Either that or the butt of jokes for democrats to wallow in their mud pit for generations to come.

Reply to  MyUsername
November 6, 2024 11:33 pm

There are several bad pictures of Trump. I would think you’d want your candidate to be shown in the best light. Some pictures of Harris are better. This one is bad.

November 5, 2024 2:11 am

Still too close to call. My earlier intuition was a slight edge for Harris, but Trump seems to have gained in the last few days. The Iowa polls don’t strike me as convincing. 50/50 is about the best you can estimate at this point.

Going to be a long night. And may not even be decided then.

Scissor
Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 4:41 am

Atlas Intel has been most accurate this past decade. Of course it’s difficult to factor cheating other than it favors dems. It’s possible that it could be over tonight, but PA and AZ already indicate that their “count” will not be ready for days.

Arizona: Trump +5.1
Nevada: Trump +3.1
North Carolina: Trump +2.1
Georgia: Trump +1.6
Michigan: Trump +1.5
Pennsylvania: Trump +1.0
Wisconsin: Trump +0.9
Minnesota: Harris +2.0
Virginia: Harris +5.4

Trump: 312
Harris: 226

Too big to rig?

Reply to  Scissor
November 5, 2024 5:40 am

The reason Trump is winning is the totally dysfunctional policies of Democrats, who have lost touch with their traditional voters, who are finally taking revenge

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Scissor
November 5, 2024 5:54 am

Not too big. Just a little more challenging. Keep in mind the number of elections were tactics and techniques were developed and perfected.

Reply to  Scissor
November 5, 2024 7:55 am

Cheating and other discrepancies in the 2020 election

https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/11/cheating-in-the-2024-election/

Tom Halla
Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 6:50 am

What will matter is The Magic Mail-In Ballot Machine. It was very well funded by Zuckerbucks in 2020, but how much now?

November 5, 2024 2:15 am

Thing is, returning to the subject of the piece, this is all called ‘climate legislation’ and ‘climate policy’. But its not that, it will have no effects one way or the other on the global climate. Its really properly called US energy policy, that’s all it is. Calling it climate stuff is just marketing.

Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 4:17 am

Right!

Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 5:49 am

No, no, no.

This is money-grabbing legislation to feed the Democrat patronage machine.
It is in vogue to hang the climate label on it to deceive the people, because that spending has not one iota of effect on the climate, and Democrats and RINOs know it.

Musk will cut a lot of spending out of the federal budget, and Democrats are even more afraid of Musk than of Trump, because 50 years of patronage BS, which enriched grifting/grafting Biden, Inc., will be grossly curtailed.

CampsieFellow
November 5, 2024 2:41 am

A Kamala Victory Means Green New Deal Lawfare
I hope that should read “A Kamala Victory Would Mean Green New Deal Lawfare”

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  CampsieFellow
November 5, 2024 5:55 am

Both are correct and convey the same meaning.
Your suggestion is grammatically more correct.

KevinM
Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
November 5, 2024 12:03 pm

I think he meant verb tense not sentence structure.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  KevinM
November 6, 2024 7:21 am

Possible.

strativarius
November 5, 2024 2:46 am

For the [far] left the ends will always justify the means, or as the Sesame Street Democrat would have it: ““I can imagine what can be, and be unburdened by what has been”. We get a lot of that harsh green stuff in the UK now. They have to raze the village in order to save the village.

I had to turn the BBC off in seconds flat; the derangement syndrome is well off the charts and it will be for days. If Trump should win they will probably have a collective meltdown. Like Biden – at least in the recent presidential past – and like our Two-Tier, Free-Gear Keir, Harris is an empty vessel to be filled and who fills that vessel is ultimately pulling the policy strings. She’s apparently well known – I’m reliably informed – for her sharp, precise articulation and her eloquence:

“I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It’s just something about those three circles and the analysis about where there is the intersection, right?”

Look out world…
“””Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically that’s wrong.”””

The new racism
The UK Labour government is in a sort of lock step with current US Democrat thinking. Not too long ago a Labour MP described a senior black Tory MP as superficially black. That MP was suspended for 6 months. Now that Badenoch has become the new Tory leader another Labour MP has called her a white supremacist in blackface. This time no action has been taken whatsoever.

“”Starmer refuses to take whip from Labour MP who shared ‘white supremacy’ post about Badenoch””
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/11/04/starmer-urged-discipline-dawn-butler-race-baiting-post-kemi/

His excuse for inaction? The MP deleted the post…

If Harris does win I’m going to get plastered to blot it all out.

Scissor
Reply to  strativarius
November 5, 2024 4:47 am

Emhoff says she’s ready to put her head down and go to work.

strativarius
Reply to  Scissor
November 5, 2024 5:01 am

On who? Sorry, I’ll get my coat…

Reply to  Scissor
November 5, 2024 5:52 am

She, at 30, likely put her head down on 60 y-old, married Willie Brown to use his LA political machine to get ahead

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Scissor
November 5, 2024 5:57 am

One has to wonder exactly what is in front of her face?

Reply to  Scissor
November 5, 2024 8:21 am

Can you illustrate that with a Venn diagram?

Reply to  strativarius
November 5, 2024 9:46 am

Remember, remember the 5th of November,
gunpowder treason and plot
I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.

Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 2:52 am

Story tip: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/05/millions-more-switch-off-ed-miliband-net-zero-targets/

Millions more households could be asked to regularly switch off light and appliances under Ed Miliband’s plan for a clean power grid by 2030, an official review has found.

The Energy Secretary has been told that the Government’s pledge to rely on wind and solar farms for most of Britain’s power needs is technically achievable but will entail a “Herculean effort” on every front.

The official review: https://www.neso.energy/publications/clean-power-2030

Finally, we’ve been in ultra-low wind conditions since Saturday/Sunday, currently our 30GW+ wind fleet is producing 1.13GW out of 38.1GW demand, under 3% of what’s needed, even a “Herculean effort” isn’t going to solve that.

strativarius
Reply to  Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 3:00 am

We’ve got a lot more to come from this bunch of self-righteous lunatics. Still, they’ve annoyed the students now….

Idle Eric
Reply to  Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 3:05 am

Replying to my own post, but reading the report and the key messages are hilarious, including this particular gem:

Deliver first-of-a-kind clean dispatchable technologies, such as carbon capture and storage and hydrogen to power.

So all we have to do is find a solution to fundamentally unsolvable economic and technical problems, preferably within the next year, so that we have time to build them by 2030.

Is this report satire? Surely it’s satire, isn’t it?

strativarius
Reply to  Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 3:14 am

You gotta have faith, brother…

I'm not a robot
Reply to  Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 5:56 am

Once that filibuster is gone, Comma-la will repeal the laws of Thermodynamics!

Then, they’ll legislate permanent daylight savings time, so that solar generation is 24×7.

Vote Dem!

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  I'm not a robot
November 5, 2024 7:46 am

You failed to list chaning pi from an irrational number to 3.14 precisely.

John Hultquist
Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
November 5, 2024 10:02 am
Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  John Hultquist
November 5, 2024 12:34 pm

I did not know about that.
I remember a story from long ago about a King who mandated pi shall forever be 3.

Reply to  Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 4:35 am

Yes, they have no solution to intermittency, so they are moving to the NY State solution, “Dispatchable Emissions-Free Resources” or DEFRs. That is, moonbeams.

The alternative, which they will end up with in the absence of DEFRs, will be intermittent power. But the economic and social costs of that will far exceed the crazy costs of all the wind, solar and transmission they are building.

Ain’t going to work. Buy a generator!

Idle Eric
Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 4:51 am

Bottled gas for heating and cooking, candles and lanterns for lighting, keep tablets and laptops fully charged for work/entertainment, a good supply of warm clothing and if all else fails go to the pub.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 5:59 am

Imagine being in an elevator in one of those tall NYC buildings and face with a week long blackout.

Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 8:23 am

The solution to intermittency is learning to adapt to unreliable energy. Americans have had it too good for too long. Do us all some good to learn to do without.

John Hultquist
Reply to  More Soylent Green!
November 5, 2024 10:07 am

Every home, grocery store, hospital, city Stop lights, and so on will need generators and massive batteries to keep ice cream solid, operating rooms functioning, and traffic moving.
A fun time will be had by all. 😏

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  More Soylent Green!
November 5, 2024 12:36 pm

You just eliminated all social media for all those addicted kids.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  More Soylent Green!
November 6, 2024 9:59 am

Prior to electricity, we burned coal for heat, wood for cooking, and whale oil for lighting. Are you suggesting we go back to that or are you saying we will be better off cold, hungry, and in the dark?

Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 11:11 am

Hi Honey, I am late
I ran out of solar beams and had to use the much slower moon beam
Better late than never

Too bad, I will get only 2 hours of sleep to nite.
Also, it looks like it will be overcast to morrow, so solar beams will be hard to come by.

They say we should batteries, but they would put is in the California-style poor-house, on the street next to Pelosi’s door step.

She is having a catering service prepare sandwiches, while she is busy voting for more wind, solar, and batteries, and heat pumps, and EVs, not the Musk kind, because he voted for Trump.

strativarius
Reply to  Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 4:46 am

Double summer time and BST in winter would be the only help. I remember they tried it back between 1968 and 1971. The Scottish farmers scuppered that one…

Reply to  Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 5:07 am

Annex 1 has the demand forecast for Electricity, conveniently they forcast most of the extra demand for electricity for EV’s heat pumps, hydrogen etc to be after 2030 and instead have it in 2030 to 2050. So first destroy the grid by 2030 and then back to the dark ages by 2050.

Reply to  Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 5:15 am

And they are going to promote smart storage heaters, are they mad !!

Reply to  Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 5:21 am

And just throw in some unproven tech just to keep Master Millivolt happy.

New and innovative LDES technologies, such as liquid air energy storage (LAES), compressed air

energy storage and iron air batteries need to be deployed, giving Great Britain an opportunity to

lead the way in new technologies.

Idle Eric
Reply to  kommando828
November 5, 2024 6:06 am

It’s like an episode of The Jetsons isn’t it? Magic new technologies that are going to arrive in the next 5 years that will solve all the otherwise unsolvable problems and make net-zero a reality.

I’m still waiting for my flying car.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 7:48 am

The one that folds up into a briefcase. Yes! I want that! As long as it is not electric.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Idle Eric
November 5, 2024 5:58 am

The Brits will have nothing and they will be happy.

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
November 5, 2024 11:15 am

They already HAVE next to nothing
The UK empire is threadbare, a great ally for the U.S. to rely on.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  wilpost
November 5, 2024 12:37 pm

And soon they will tax the family farms and those will go into the dustbin of history.

Reply to  wilpost
November 5, 2024 7:54 pm

Except the elites who get a lot of bennies, such as $550 farmyard boots, one pair for him and one pair for her, in a photo, while grinning on their gentleman farm, courtesy of a supporter.
Much gain with no pain is their motto.

Duane
November 5, 2024 4:26 am

I prefer not to speculate, in a matter of hours, or by tomorrow, we’ll know who won. Then we can talk about reality.

Reply to  Duane
November 5, 2024 4:58 am

My prediction is it will be denialism and stolen election talk.

strativarius
Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 5:06 am

Which Tarot deck do you use? Rider-Waite or Wang-Regardie, or perhaps Thoth?

Reply to  strativarius
November 5, 2024 5:12 am

I just can’t imagine americans stupid enough to elect trump. If that happens I probably stop using the internet and move into a hut in the woods.

Bill Toland
Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 5:16 am

Promise?

strativarius
Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 5:27 am

“”My prediction is…””

“Which Tarot deck do you use? Rider-Waite or Wang-Regardie, or perhaps Thoth?”

Nobody asked what you can or cannot imagine.

Reply to  strativarius
November 5, 2024 7:30 am

I can imagine Texas turning blue.

Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 7:58 pm

Texas.. BRIGHT RED.. Trump 56%..

Poor luser !!

Erik Magnuson
Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 9:38 pm

Looks like your imagination failed you – Cruz was re-elected.

Gregory Woods
Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 6:57 am

Ojala!

Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 8:00 am

I already voted for Trump. You can’t incentivize me further with your empty promises.

Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 12:37 pm

What? and leave the comforts of granny’s padded basement?

You are too incompetent to survive without someone directing your every movement.

Derg
Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 12:49 pm

Boy I can’t wait

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  MyUsername
November 6, 2024 10:01 am

Trump was elected. Have you stopped using the Internet and moved into a hut in the woods?

starzmom
Reply to  MyUsername
November 6, 2024 5:39 pm

goodbye.

Bill Toland
Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 5:13 am

I agree, the Democratic party won’t take Trump’s victory well.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Bill Toland
November 5, 2024 7:49 am

There were reports not that long ago that the Democrats were concerned about Democrats participating in violent protests.

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
November 5, 2024 11:03 am

Yep, Democrats destroying cities in Democrat states has a lot of precedence.

Ask Walz. !!

Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 7:59 am

Oh, so more Russian collusion hoax?

Derg
Reply to  More Soylent Green!
November 5, 2024 2:14 pm

Simon loves colluuuusion.

Reply to  Derg
November 5, 2024 7:59 pm

Loves pee-pee, too. !

As does his boyfriend.

Reply to  MyUsername
November 5, 2024 7:57 pm

it will be denialism and stolen election talk.”

You know the Democrats well, I see. !

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  MyUsername
November 6, 2024 10:00 am

So, how did your prediction turn out?

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
November 6, 2024 10:43 am

how did your prediction turn out?

Pretty accurate, actually. There’s a lot of people now talking about how Trump stole the election and that it was rigged.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Duane
November 5, 2024 6:00 am

Meanwhile all is surreal.

Reply to  Duane
November 5, 2024 7:58 am

But will we know who won by tomorrow? Why do we use electronic voting systems if they can’t simply add numbers and give totals instantly.

Reply to  More Soylent Green!
November 5, 2024 8:21 am

Free fact — the electronic voting machines don’t store numbers of votes for any candidate as integer values; rather they store them as floating point percentages of the total number of votes.

Reply to  karlomonte
November 5, 2024 1:10 pm

I’m going to need to see some evidence for that. Aside from the fact that you still need to store the number of votes to calculate the percentage.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  More Soylent Green!
November 6, 2024 7:23 am

Just trust the media to select the next President.

Reply to  Duane
November 5, 2024 10:38 am

I remember when Reagan won (I don’t remember if it was his first or second win).
The MSM (only ABC, CBS, NBC, at the time) was calling for it be a very close race.
What I remember most was a dejected Peter Jennings announcing that Reagan had won in a landslide.

KevinM
Reply to  Gunga Din
November 5, 2024 3:23 pm

Partisanship of newscasters and pollsters makes it impossible to trust news of who is winning or will win until it happens

November 5, 2024 4:39 am

Nate Silver’s latest:

Polling guru Nate Silver overnight revealed that he conducted 80,000 simulations of the election, and Vice President Kamala Harris won in 50.015% of them. There were even a few 269-269 splits in the simulation. It’s as close to a coin toss as one can imagine.

Source: Marketwatch

strativarius
Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 5:08 am

80,000… why stop there?

I read the tea leaves this morning. Better learn to laugh like the cackler, michel.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 6:01 am

Ah, models.

0perator
Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 6:59 am

Silver is a crank way past the expiration date.

Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 8:25 am

Well, why have an election then? That’s science, that’s what that is.

Scissor
Reply to  michel
November 5, 2024 12:56 pm

Silver gave Trump less than a 30% chance to beat Hillary in 2016.

0perator
November 5, 2024 5:08 am

Harris/Walz anti-natalist, eugenics, depopulation, death cult ticket.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  0perator
November 5, 2024 7:50 am

Harris, the self-proclaimed capitalist is in actuality in favor or extremely anti-capitalism policies.

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
November 5, 2024 8:01 am

It’s called Fascism.

0perator
Reply to  More Soylent Green!
November 5, 2024 10:21 am

She is more of a Maoist. The trans were supposed to be the red book carriers but that is going to fizzle out.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  More Soylent Green!
November 5, 2024 12:40 pm

Regardless of what label is applied, it is still unAmerican.

strativarius
November 5, 2024 5:23 am

You have to wonder what kind of advice UK Labour has been giving to the US Democrat election campaign…

“””Ed Miliband is busy this morning boasting about a new report from state-owned National Energy System Operator on the government’s Clean-Power-by-2030 target. He says “Expert analysis backs our policy and its benefits for the country. Defeatist critics should take note”…

What proposals is he actually talking about? The report is very careful in its wording and makes clear that Clean Power targets will only be reached with:

A four-to-fivefold increase in ‘demand flexibility’ from 2.5 gigawatts today to at least 10.4 gigawatts. That means millions of households co-operating when the government tells them to use less electricity at short notice…
Sustained rollout of offshore wind at over double the highest rate ever achieved in Great Britain. Which means tripling capacity…
A tripling of solar power is required, as well as a doubling of onshore wind capacity.
A four-fold increase in battery capacity.
A lifetime extension for at least one old nuclear power plant. Which no-one believes will happen by 2030…
Wind power is known to falter in Britain – at which point blackout prevention systems come into place. This occured as recently as last month. Relying on wind generation for half of all power in the UK and demand will have to be forced very low indeed…

Neso is clear that “a dramatic acceleration in progress compared to anything achieved historically” is required and “failure in any single area – generation, flexibility, networks – will lead to failure overall; all parts need to deliver to achieve clean power.” Success in any single area is unlikely enough…

If enough households don’t voluntarily agree to keep the kettle off to save electricity in high-demand periods they will have to be compelled. Good that Net Zero won’t help to generate GDP growth either…
https://order-order.com/2024/11/05/miliband-boasts-about-proposal-to-prevent-families-from-using-electricity/

Copyright: The Mad Monk.

Sparta Nova 4
November 5, 2024 5:53 am

So CommieLa Harris wants to protect a woman’s right to choice, which is about 0.3% of the population based on last years statistics, but wants to eliminate the right to choice for the entire population.

Could it get any more hypocritical?

Tom Halla
November 5, 2024 6:48 am

Conversely, if Trump gets back in, entertaining a RICO prosecution against Sher Edling and the rest of the La Jolla group would be in order. As there is a fair amount of litigation finance involved, going after the NGOs and donors would be effective.
Projection is characteristic of the Left, especially the Green Left. Alleging a conspiracy by others is plausible, as they are mirroring their own actions.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Tom Halla
November 5, 2024 7:56 am

By pointing fingers and screaming, they deflect attention from themselves and generally they are hiding worse sins than those they accuse.

November 5, 2024 7:23 am
November 5, 2024 10:53 pm

Congratulations to Trump!

November 6, 2024 7:31 am

Not now thank God.

Sparta Nova 4
November 6, 2024 10:04 am

Harris quietly slipped out of her election part without a word to the faithful who showed up to celebrate with her.

Disrespect.