I don’t need to fact check them. I work in the energy industry and I see what the regulations are doing to the cost of power. If you know how energy consumption works, you’d know that solar and wind are not a solution. You need base load generation to support them and that base load generation has to be equivalent to the peak loads the system sees or else you have to start turning off customers. So if we’ve got to build the plants to support max capacity anyway, why aren’t we building the cleanest, cheapest, most powerful base load plants aka nuclear? Batteries are not going to cut it. With the length of time it takes to get a nuclear plant sited and built, they should have started working on that 10 years ago. Now? It’s too late. Hydro? Can’t do it because the green beans worry about the ecosystem so much they’ll never allow it.
The feds are making all the wrong moves and it’s special interests driving it. They’re also doubling down on it by restricting the oil supply, taxing it more, killing pipelines, etc. Simple economics should tell them there needs to be a business case for switching to all electric that the consumer can justify. It needs to be cheaper or as cheap as the fossil alternatives. To date it’s not unless you can spend $60 grand on electrifying your home HVAC, installing PV and putting in a geothermal system if you live in a cold climate. The average American living paycheck to paycheck can’t afford this nonsense. Even the ones that can look at these complex geothermal systems and say to themselves, if this shit breaks it’s gonna be expensive to fix.
It’s a flawed policy at its core and it’s artificially inflating energy costs for the average consumer. I’ve laid my argument but I’m sure I’ll get “Hurr durr, GOP talking points, hurr durr.” Keep voting blue and see how bad it gets. There’s a reason people are fleeing California and NY and moving to Texas and Florida. It’s getting pretty toxic and unaffordable.