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a $1.3 billion federal investment to build three new interstate power lines in an effort to upgrade the United States’ outdated electric grid and transition it to clean energy.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.
PG&E be like:
that’s 🔥
Is that like one major city?
As someone who has worked for a number of transmission companies, $1.3 Billion dollars is a laughable investment. Duke Energy spent the better part of last year trying to find $54 Billion for it’s capital investment projects.
Most electric transmission companies in the US spend this much on capital projects on an annual basis. I like the idea of investing in our infrastructure but this is money wasted
You don’t even have to click through to the article to read
… to build three new interstate power lines …
The $1.3B is not intended to upgrade the entire power grid.
Anyone who thought $1.3 B could upgrade the entire power grid is an idiot in the first place.
Maybe $1.3 T.
ONLY $1.3T?
laughs in goverment-sanctioned for-profit public utility monopolies
The propaganda is out in force.
Bankrupting America’s future by investing in it. Classic Biden. I bet that investment doesn’t even begin to shield U.S. electrical systems from a potentially catastrophic Carrington event. How is it modernizing anything if it can leave us in the stone age?
That’s why you should vote for literally anything else.
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.
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.
Absolutely fucking wrong. Trump is going to most likely be the republican candidate and that shit stain cannot be allowed anywhere near our government again.
I guess they really do just let anyone post here.
When I was shopping for a new house I told the agent if it couldn’t hold up to the Tunguska event I wasn’t interested.
If it doesn’t even begin, then it sounds long overdue.
And I bet people like you are the reason it’s still not enough.
If you were trying for sarcasm you tripped over Poe’s Law.
I bet that investment doesn’t even begin to shield U.S. electrical systems from a potentially catastrophic Carrington event.
Why invest in anything if it won’t survive the inevitable heat death of the universe, while we’re at it?
Don’t reproduce
Bankrupting America’s future by investing in it.
This is sarcasm gang. I’d put money on it.
Thank you!
Could you elaborate and explain how anything you said makes sense?
They’re suggesting that we shouldn’t bother upgrading the power grid unless it can stand up to the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history. 🙄
Reading what I wrote in your words is just as hilarious to me as writing it. That’s good stuff
If it doesn’t stand up to a Carrington EVENT, why not VOTE TRAUMEP??
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