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a $1.3 billion federal investment to build three new interstate power lines in an effort to upgrade the United States’ outdated electric grid and transition it to clean energy.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.
Had you just went with the good point about the planned infrastructure not able to stand up to a Carrington event, fine. That’s contrarian. I agree. It should be a resilient as possible to not just extreme weather, but CMEs too.
The thing is that 1.3 billion isn’t going to bankrupt America’s future. Saying that like it’s a sure thing and as if a loss of that amount of money to the US could bankrupt it isn’t contrarian, it’s just emotional language meant to sow FUD. And wrong.
Never look into how roads are repaired and how much it costs. If 1.3 billion to build things that could last half a century or more (unless of course the random super strong CME hits and destroys everything else along with the new power lines) you might lose your mind. Roads dont even last a decade in cases and cost so much.
And we all get the classic Biden comment. You represent a group of people that act like the world revolves around only them and nearly stroke out when the gov’t sets money aside to improve the country or help anyone else that isn’t your group.