Timothy Birdnow

Energy Secretary Rick Perry is worried about the U.S. electric grid and has ordered a study be done to make recommendations on how to upgrade it. That study is being handed over to climate change skeptic Travis Fisher. Predictably, liberal heads are imploding.
(By the way, liberal heads don't really explode because they are in near vacuum.)

The Gang Green website Treehugger has the biofuel aka poop:

"Today Perry appointed a certain Travis Fisher to lead the study. According to Hannah Northey at E&E News, Fisher is a political appointee at the Department of energy who previously worked with "the Institute for Energy Research, a nonprofit energy think tank that advocates "free-market" energy and environmental policy.” He also tweeted about it; I copy some here. Northey quotes some of his op-eds in The Hill:

Fisher warned that the U.S. EPA clean air rules posed a threat to coal-fired power plants, and that the agency was "coming after" gas plants as anti-nuclear activists threatened reactor closures. "These closings pose a serious threat to the grid as we know it," Fisher wrote. "Forcing reliable sources of energy off the grid will only increase the risk of blackouts and raise electricity prices for households across America.

What does today's @EPA have in common with the villain from the original @Ghostbusters? Too much. https://t.co/wQ3xKxvzSG @AEA
— Travis Fisher (@ts_fisher) June 13, 2016


"But excessive regulation isn't the only issue facing the grid," Fisher continued. "Other policies undermine our electric system by subsidizing unreliable sources of power like wind and solar, which provided around 4 percent of our electricity generation last year. Subsidizing unreliable generation while wiping out reliable sources is a huge gamble — a real-time experiment to see whether or not we can keep the lights on."

Is this the way @AWEA and @NRDC go about their research? Fake numbers from undocumented phone calls? #KeepTheLightsOn http://t.co/CG7BM2mhoV
— Travis Fisher (@ts_fisher) November 24, 2014

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Whatever one thinks of Trump - and there are many with very good reasons for skepticism - it cannot be disputed that something like this would never, ever have happened under Hillary Rodham Clinton. The NeverTrump crowd actually supported Hillary out of pique for Mr. Orange Hair Surprise, but at least our side has a chance. Had Hillary won she would have secured the radical position in firm control of America for a generation to come.

Even if Trump winds up a huge disappointment (and it looks like he is heading that way) at least we have a few victories like this.

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