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a $1.3 billion federal investment to build three new interstate power lines in an effort to upgrade the United States’ outdated electric grid and transition it to clean energy.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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        All the best people are saying so! Plus he’ll end the war in Ukraine!*

        • by cutting off funding and letting Putin take whatever land he wants, but you know, details aren’t important right now

        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.

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      Does it hurt being you?

      Part of being a contrarian is making sure that people I agree with don’t fall for some basic bullshit.