U.S. Pursues Expensive Electricity While Much of World Lives in Energy Poverty
28th April 2021
With many still living with little to no access to electricity, American politicians are pursuing the most expensive ways to generate intermittent electricity with offshore wind turbines on the East and West Coasts.
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The U.S Energy Information Administration (EIA) has already documented that offshore wind continues to be one of the most expensive forms of electricity generation.
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Energy poverty is among the most crippling but least talked-about crises of the 21st century. Electricity is the one of the simplest solutions to improved health, economic opportunity, education, nutrition, and comfort in the developing world, especially for women and girls.
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In the world’s poorest countries, there are 11 million children in the world dying every year.
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Those fatalities are from the preventable causes of diarrhea, malaria, neonatal infection, pneumonia, preterm delivery, or lack of oxygen at birth as many developing countries have no, or minimal, access to electricity or to the thousands of products from oil derivatives enjoyed by the wealthy and healthy countries.
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The insistence that we should limit future access to electricity, fossil fuels, and the products made from oil derivatives has an even more dramatic cost, because cheap and accessible power, and products from fossil fuels are lifesaving, and one of the best ways out of poverty.
Hey, we finally got to the point.
Look, I understand that a lot of people in the world are poor. That’s not our problem. That’s their problem. We were just as poor once, and we fixed it. It’s their problem to fix. If they’d quit listening to lame-ass socialist politicians (who are, by and large, not poor), the fixing would be a lot easier.
Our problem is that our own lame-ass socialist politicians are rapidly spending more money than we can afford on shit tat does not work and probably won’t every work, with the result that people in this country are rapidly getting poorer. Let’s solve that problem first, then worry about the rest of the world.