{"id":34954,"date":"2021-07-17T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T11:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=34954"},"modified":"2021-07-17T07:46:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T11:46:43","slug":"aoc-wants-to-black-out-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=34954","title":{"rendered":"AOC wants to black out Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. Alexandria Occasional-Cortex can always be counted on to say something really stupid. If she didn\u2019t, thousands of pundits would be starving for something to comment on. AOC must have noticed that commentary has moved away from her, because she\u2019s started spouting off stupid ideas again.<\/p>\n

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This time she\u2019s come up with the absolutely brilliant idea of shutting down 20% of Puerto Rico\u2019s electricity generation capacity. Here are the details of her latest moronic idea from the Western Journal<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

A proposal from Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to close a coal-fired power plant on Puerto Rico has been denounced as \u201cbeyond devastating\u201d to the people who actually live there. <\/b>On Thursday, during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing, Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> proposed closing AES Puerto Rico\u2019s coal plant in Guayama, The Daily Wire reported<\/a>. <\/b><\/p>\n

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AOC then demonstrates her training and experience in the Energy Generation sector with this gem:<\/p>\n

The architect of the Green New Deal said closing the power plant would have little impact.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cNow I want to debunk\u2026 \u2018chicken little\u2019 arguments on how, if we would close the coal plants, it would cause catastrophic effects for the energy supply on the island,\u201d she said. \u201cAES could close tomorrow while keeping the lights on and preventing price increases on the island.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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I used to work in the energy sector in a field called Demand\/Response. The short version is, when an event was called by the ISO, (Independent System Operators ), we would contact customers who would shut down energy using systems a predetermined plan and then sell that extra available power back to the grid. It\u2019s designed as an emergency measure. Shutting off 20% of a regions power generation capacity and you now have rolling blackouts.<\/p>\n

Alex Epstein, founder of the for-profit think tank Center for Industrial Progress<\/a>, pushed back, tweeting that Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s brainstorm<\/a> would bring a tsunami of misery for the people of the island. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to convince her that this would be beyond devastating to the people of Puerto Rico,\u201d he tweeted. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t mean to pick on Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, but she tweeted that the infrastructure\u2019s failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you don\u2019t pursue a Green New Deal. No \u2014 in fact, plenty of places around the world can deal with hot and cold when they have enough reliable, resilient electricity.<\/b><\/p>\n

Go ahead and pick on her. She is a complete idiot who revels in her stupidity. She deserves everything that is going to land on her.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas defunded reliable, resilient electricity, including winterization, to pay tens of billions of dollars for unreliable solar and wind that don\u2019t work when you need them the most,\u201d Epstein said during the hearing, The Daily Wire reported.<\/b><\/p>\n

As I recall, about 10 or so years ago. ERCOT went all in on the \u201cRenewable\u201d craze and shut down a number of older power plants, and replaced them with windmills and solar panels. If I recall correctly, when the deep freeze hit Texas last winter, they wanted to start up some of the decommissioned, (But still functional) plants, but were refused permission by the Maladministration.<\/p>\n

Epstein said Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s energy plan \u201cwould make Puerto Rico into truly a consistently third-world country.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

To Alexandria Occasion-Cortex, that\u2019s a feature not a mistake. That\u2019s her goal for the entire United States of America, reducing us to levels worse then what is happening in Venezuela.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnergy is the industry that powers every other industry,\u201d Epstein said. \u201cThe lower cost and more reliable energy is, the lower cost and more reliable everything is, and vice versa. I just want to stress that Puerto Rico\u2019s energy situation is terrible, and one of the reasons I want to testify today is nobody is talking about that. They\u2019re talking about \u2018How do we maintain the status quo?\u2019 The status quo is terrible in Puerto Rico.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alex Epstein then went into details on the reality of renewables and why they are generally a boondoggle. His remarks are quite extensive and I recommend reading them in the Western Journal article<\/b><\/a>. The final remark is telling:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be telling Puerto Ricans to abandon this suicide pact. But many on this committee are telling them to almost immediately shut down their most reliable, resilient source of electricity \u2014 a coal plant, which survived Hurricane Maria and last year\u2019s earthquakes, that provides 1\/5 of Puerto Rican electricity,\u201d he said. <\/b><\/p>\n

Recently I wrote about how much Alexandria Occasional-Cortex must hate her gandmother<\/a>. It was a bit tongue in cheek, but her claims about how her grandmother was living in substandard housing and it was \u201cAll Trump\u2019s Fault!\u201d blew up in her face. This idea of shutting down 1\/5th<\/sup> of the electrical generating capacity of Puerto Rico shows that once again, AOC is fit only to make porn movies and serve drinks. She certainly isn\u2019t fit to serve in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

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