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3. It is a nice pipe dream but we have a global oligarchy that are an impediment to accomplishing it.
Sun Jul 17, 2022, 10:32 AM
Jul 2022

The amount of electrical energy to accomplish that "electricfication strategy" is massive and it would take a National, and global for that matter,, energy policy that is dedicated to achieve it. The cost of oil along with the geoploitical battles that are already happening over fossil fuels and a real end of oil scenario that is looming may give us no choice. It would most likely require nuclear power to achieve the 2035-2050 implementation time frame and there seems to be no support for nuclear power in the U.S. and most of Europe.

The notion that this would be "cheap energy" is stretch but by 2050 we will most likely have no choice. In the U.S. the GOP and oligarchy that own them will do everything they can to block it.

I doubt that I'll live to see it. I might make it to 2035 but I'll be taking a dirt nap by 2050.

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