President Joe Biden announced Monday a $1.3 billion federal investment to build three new interstate power lines in an effort to upgrade the United States’ outdated electric grid and transition it to clean energy.
The electric transmission lines will cross through six states: Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Utah and Vermont.
Bankrupting America’s future by investing in it. Classic Biden. I bet that investment doesn’t even begin to shield U.S. electrical systems from a potentially catastrophic Carrington event. How is it modernizing anything if it can leave us in the stone age?
That’s why you should vote for literally anything else.
Does it hurt being you? The grid is old and needs to be upgraded. Corporate power companies take subsidies and money from the gov’t as a motivator to upgrade their lines and infrastructure but they never do and those same lines fail over and over.
What is your solution then? Who should upgrade infrastructure and who should pay for it? You’ve done nothing but complain while offering nothing to the conversation. You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
It’s like Biden is so singularly capable of helping Israel commit genocide, but so incapable of doing anything else. Guess we better vote for trump, he’ll bring the best peace to the Middle East. Everybody says so.
All the best people are saying so! Plus he’ll end the war in Ukraine!*
Anyway, that’s the common fascist trope, right? The groups they make their enemies are made out to be super-powerful at doing bad things, but unworthy and incompetent at anything positive. Huh…. Oh wait, that’s more projection from them.
Part of being a contrarian is making sure that people I agree with don’t fall for some basic bullshit.
“contrarian” is a personality trait, not ideology
Like reading the article? I bet you never fall for that shit.
Why invest in anything if it won’t survive the inevitable heat death of the universe, while we’re at it?
When I was shopping for a new house I told the agent if it couldn’t hold up to the Tunguska event I wasn’t interested.
Don’t reproduce
Absolutely fucking wrong. Trump is going to most likely be the republican candidate and that shit stain cannot be allowed anywhere near our government again.
Could you elaborate and explain how anything you said makes sense?
They’re suggesting that we shouldn’t bother upgrading the power grid unless it can stand up to the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history. 🙄
Reading what I wrote in your words is just as hilarious to me as writing it. That’s good stuff
If it doesn’t stand up to a Carrington EVENT, why not VOTE TRAUMEP??
Hello, Trump voter.
If it doesn’t even begin, then it sounds long overdue.
And I bet people like you are the reason it’s still not enough.
No, it’s the military industrial complex.
There is frankly not enough money to fund the massive MIC and also rebuild the crumbling infrastructure in the US.
The only way I see an actual update happening is if it’s billed as a national defense upgrade.
At this point, it’s kinda pretty justifiable as a national defense upgrade. Can’t build rockets if the rocket factories don’t have power
Having a more robust electrical grid is clearly aligned with the interests of the military industrial complex. A lot of investment in infrastructure also serves the interests of national security.
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If you were trying for sarcasm you tripped over Poe’s Law.
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This is sarcasm gang. I’d put money on it.
Thank you!