I like any new technology. I keep up with the space program. Just because Tesla came out with realistic electric cars much much better than a glorified golf cart, and he also developed a reusable rocket that now has landed after launching satellites and astronauts to orbit over 100 times doesn't mean it it wrong. Windmills in the midwest and plains states as well as west Texas have been working providing electricity for these people before Trump and Bidens stupid green new deal. They supplement the grid.
Liberals have hijacked this new technology and now want to push it on everyone everywhere. The technology is coming and can be used for good, but liberals want to throw out everything else we have like oil and gas. I've been pushing for using excess power to make synthetic natural gas using the Sabatier process to push into the existing gas grid, and burn it to make electricity during peek periods. No batteries needed. I've also thought using solar panels over parking lots in the deep south and on top of flat top buildings would be the best places to start using them, not new solar farms taking up land. I also think we should build smaller modular nuclear power plants that are cheaper to build, fit on the back of a flatbed truck and can be clustered depending on power needs. I have also thought using thorium instead of uranium would be safer, less radioactive, do not get too hot to melt down, and nuclear waste is safe after 200 years, not 2000 years as uranium is.
If we need to used alternative energy, use tax credits, not manditory laws forcing the gas use so high, you can't get a decent powered car or truck is stupid. Also, we are going to always need oil and gas, for synthetics, rubber, medicines, etc, so why stop pipelines and drilling? Doesn't make sense.
Just because I like the idea of an electric car or truck that gets high mileage, and faster charging, doesn't mean I am liberal, just pragmatic. Oil and gas are getting harder to extract and required deeper drilling, which is going to bring the price up anyway, so why not prepare for it. Just because the Russians messed up with Chernobal, and we had Three Mile Island (which was safely shut down anyway) doesn't mean stop using nuclear power. Just because 50,000 people are killed every year in vehicles doesn't mean we should stop using them. There are 200 million trucks and cars in America, 98/% are using gas and diesel, and are going to be around for at least 20-50 years. They are not going away anytime soon so yes we still need to drill. Liberals do not understand this.
Wind is already cheaper than natural gas for making electricity. It is in areas where there is almost continuous wind, like coast lines and the plains states. They are also building windmills like crazy all over the world. Problem is, it is not for everyone. Most people live east of the Mississippi in the US. They will need nuclear, solar in the deep south, and windmills along the coast. Maybe even damming up more rivers. The Cahaba River in Alabama and the Flint River in Georgia have never been dammed up. There is extra power there. Lots of ways to do things. Environmentalist try to stop anything being built, even windmills, and liberals want to force people to do what they think is right. What is needed is pragmatic cost effective ways from both sides.
