The Biden Administration is starting to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on schemes to replace fossil fuels with so-called renewable energy sources. Its mantra: Oil and gas are dirty; wind farms and fields of solar panels are clean.
If only! This segment of What’s Ahead makes clear that Biden’s projects won’t benefit the environment. The only real green about them is the money that will go to politically connected cronies. Call it the green gravy train.
Advocates don’t want you to know certain awkward facts. For instance, each wind turbine requires a 30-f00t-deep hole filled with a 2,500-ton block of concrete. Each turbine can require 700 gallons of costly synthetic lubricants that must be replaced each year. Spills, anyone?
There are other, even more serious factors, such as inconceivable increases in mining, that will have ugly environmental consequences.
Renewables have a voracious appetite for land. New York City has 205,000 acres. The amount of land required for wind farms and solar panel fields to provide the Big Apple with renewables comes to 2 million acres.
And on and on it goes. The entire exercise is wasteful, destructive spending on a scale rarely—if ever—seen in history.
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