Time to get serious again: the real cost of "renewable ("green") energy"

As everyone with an IQ over 80 should know by know, Wikipedia lies shamelessly to advance DemocratCommunist policies.

One example of tens of thousands: Here's a deeply buried 'graf in a Wiki piece on "wind energy policy of the U.S."  (I've edited it for readability):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_energy_policy_of_the_United_States

>>In 1978 congress passed a LAW called the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act.  It was intended to increase electricity production from renewable energy.
   Wiki says it did that by forcing electric utilities to "interconnect with renewable power production facilities."
   That's a cunning mislead: it's NOT the incentive, but it makes readers ignore the real incentive: money.
>>They then would have to buy that power at a price mandated by their state equal to avoided cost, which is the cost a utility escapes by purchasing this power, as opposed to building a new plant, consisting of capital and operating costs of the forgone plant.>>

This is outrageous horseshit.  A total lie, designed to hide the real effect.

The actual law says "highest avoided cost," which is the cost per kilowatt-hour of electricity produced by a utility's least-efficient powerplant--one they'd only use when every other plant was maxxed out.

Typically the cost of electricity produced by the *least-efficient powerplant* is *easily* twice as much as electricity from a company's most-efficient one.

But now that you've read that, what does it mean to consumers, eh?  Wiki carefully avoids explaining, since that would wake people up to the truth of "green energy."

And that truth is that "green energy"--wind and solar--costs way more than conventional energy.  The only way to make it attractive is that congress *forced* all utilities to buy higher-cost "renewable energy" at each utility's "highest avoided cost"--which again is roughly twice the average cost.

Beginning to get it yet?  Nah, you aren't--not because you're stupid but because it's an insane policy.  Reason is that it raises electric bills for consumers *for no damn good reason.*  It enriches wind-energy promoters by paying 'em way more than market price--because of PURPA.

Energy grifters saw this as a guaranteed source of easy money, and in 1990 they got the corrupt (or merely moronic) congress to pass a law whose main purpose was to remove size limits on installations demanding PURPA payments.

Then during Obozo's reign congress passed yet another law DEMANDING that certain percentages of electricity used by the federal gruberment be "renewable."  This was yet another total invitation to needlessly higher costs--which seems to be one of the main "accomplishments" of gruberment.

There followed an almost endless series of pork-laden laws every year handing billions to "green" grifters.  The total number of grifters and their annual "take" is now so huge that they can get any law passed that they want--with exactly the results you'd expect.  For example, one law gave developers CASH for 30% of the cost of building any "renewable" powerplant.

That was in addition to "tax credits" to grifters equal to another 30% of the cost.  

And none of you ever heard about any of this.  That was by design.

Try reading the Wiki piece.  If you understand it, it'll make you sick:  all the billions of higher costs squeezed from ratepayers and taxpayers, given to "renewable" grifters.

Typical Democrat: "But we gots t'do dis to stop burning 'fossil fuels', cuz if we keep burning doze, duh Erf will burn up an' kill all duh cute doggies an' kittycats!"

Of course that's horseshit, but you can't teach "womens studies majors" thermodynamics or atmospheric physics, so they'll *always* believe whatever duh Media tells 'em.

If you consider the cost of the hundreds of "tax credits" the gruberment has given (and continues to give) to "renewable" grifters it's likely that renewable electricity costs taxpayers easily three or four times more than "normal" energy.  But Dems love paying way more than they should have to for electricity, right?  Cuz "global worming."

They call it "your government," but that's reassuring horseshit.  "Your" government is controlled by big donors who pay to get laws passed that give 'em money.  Everyone else is just taxpaying sheep.

You don't ever hear about the hidden billions in graft buried in almost every law they pass.  And the Media sure isn't gonna tell ya--like you, they don't bother reading the bills.

Are there ways the system *could* be fixed?  Sure.  But congress will never allow any "fix" to become law, because that would reduce their income.

What makes all this even more sad is that the Founders crafted a faabulous blueprint for a great government, only to see that great plan sabotaged by greedy politicians, both those paid by by wealthy grifters, and those who realized they could be re-elected for life by giving "free shit" to their voters. 

Source: corrupt Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_energy_policy_of_the_United_States