Green New Deal doesn't work.
Le Monde (8/28/22) reports: "Anne Vivian-Smith spends her time checking her electricity meter, 'obsessively.' She has always been careful with her consumption, but for the past few months, she has been measuring the slightest of her activities: she makes herself fewer hot drinks, avoids turning on the television, and turns off the lights as much as possible. This former magistrate who's living in Nottingham, in the north of England, and is severely handicapped by a degenerative disease, cannot work and depends on social benefits which have not increased for three years in her case. Her husband, who is employed at a university, earns about £1,000 (1,200 euros) a month and has only received a 1.5% increase this year, well below inflation. Their gas and electricity bill, on the other hand, jumped in April from £82 to £145 a month. 'At the beginning of the year, we weren't rich, but we were okay. Now our lives have shrunk.' That extra £63 a month makes a huge difference in their daily lives. Just before the summer, Ms. Vivian-Smith's brother-in-law, who lived in Cornwall, died. She couldn't afford the train fare to the funeral. 'It cost £128, exactly the extra money we had paid in energy over two months.' The tightening of living conditions is just the beginning. On Friday, August 26, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), the British energy regulator, announced that bills would jump by 80 % in October. Several times a year, it determines the maximum ceiling for an average household: in October 2021, this was £1,277 per year; in April, it rose to £1,971; in October, it will be... £3,549. That's a near tripling in one year."
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And it doesn't matter which country you try it in.
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"To adapt Hemingway, net zero drives you bankrupt gradually, then suddenly. Britain’s sudden energy agony is a five-alarm warning if the climate progressives continue to have their way."
– Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
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