Free Market Alternative to Green New Deal
Some Americans are old enough to remember when we could actually see our pollution.
When you went to Los Angeles, you saw smog. In Cleveland, you saw a burning river. All over the country, you saw smokestacks belching brown clouds of soot.
Now, though, the air we breathe and the water we drink are cleaner and purer than they’ve been in generations. So, we’re told, it’s the invisible pollution that’s coming for us now.
Carbon dioxide is the new enemy. And that’s a problem because we create carbon dioxide when we do just about anything — even exhale. If you manufacture something, you’re emitting CO2. If you drive somewhere, you’re emitting CO2. Americans are endlessly being chastised to emit less CO2, because otherwise, we’ll supposedly destroy the earth’s environment.
So a solar power generating facility should be popular with everyone. And lo and behold, a private company is now trying to build a major solar facility in the middle of Virginia. When complete, the facility would feed 500 Megawatts of electricity into the grid, with zero CO2 emissions.
“The Spotsylvania Solar Energy Center is a private economic development project on private land,” explains a spokesman for sPower, the company looking to erect the facility.
