{"id":397689,"date":"2019-03-01T06:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T05:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/green-new-deal-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T06:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T05:45:04","slug":"green-new-deal-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/green-new-deal-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Green New Deal? – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Congress debates the Green New Deal resolution to transition the U.S. economy to \u201cnet-zero\u201d greenhouse gas emissions, a Texas town struggles under the growing financial burden of going green.<\/p>\n

Georgetown has spent $30 million since it began its transition to 100 percent renewable energy in 2016, and, now, city officials are lashing out at local reporters and a conservative think tank for scrutinizing the cost to taxpayers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire 100 percent renewable claim is misleading,\u201d Bill Peacock, vice president of research conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), told The Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n

TPPF has been holding public hearings with angry Georgetown residents since last fall. The group also called out the city\u2019s renewable energy claim that it runs solely on renewable power.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Peacock said the city\u2019s \u201cdogged, almost blind pursuit of renewables\u201d has cost residents $30 million, maybe more, in additional electricity costs because of how it structured its contracts.\u00a0Georgetown, with a population of roughly 70,000 people, is\u00a0reportedly<\/a>\u00a0the largest U.S. city to claim to run on 100 percent renewable electricity.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody enters into contracts for twice as much electricity as they need,\u201d Peacock said. \u201cThe only way it makes sense is if you\u2019re trying to make the point that you\u2019re 100 percent renewable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody else made this mistake that we\u2019re aware of,\u201d Peacock said.<\/p>\n

Now, the city is\u00a0scrambling to get out of its long-term, fixed-price energy contracts<\/a>. But what\u2019s also remarkable is the city distanced itself from its claim to fame \u2014 running on 100 percent solar and wind…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As Congress debates the Green New Deal resolution to transition the U.S. economy to \u201cnet-zero\u201d greenhouse gas emissions, a Texas town struggles under the growing financial burden of going green. Georgetown has spent $30 million since it began its transition to 100 percent renewable energy in 2016, and, now, city officials are lashing out at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}