The Press Continues to Lie About Renewable Energy

Writing in the Idaho State Journal, Mike Larkin (citing Georgetown, Texas) claims that cities are committing to renewable energy for a number of benefits.Idaho State Journal

As the Trump administration attempts to move the country toward more coal, oil and gas, many cities and some counties across America are moving forward toward 100 percent renewable energy. Cities are doing it for several reasons, but first of all is to save money.

Additional benefits are more local jobs, cleaner air, and building a city image that’s forward focused and attractive to top performing companies that employ skilled, aware young people who are overwhelmingly in favor of raising their families in a greener and cleaner world.

Larkin’s claims are demonstrably false; the city of Georgetown, in fact, is losing millions of dollars and raising its electric rates for consumers to make up for its bad bet on renewable energy.

It has been repeatedly reported in Texas that after a solar or wind farm is constructed, the number of jobs created are often less than 10. That means the subsidies that are awarded these renewable energy companies by federal and state governments are a very high price for very few long term permanent jobs.

“The promise to use 100 percent renewable energy achieves the right political goals, but at great expense to consumers—and the facts,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “Intermittent renewable energy simply can’t provide all the power the city of Georgetown needs, when it needs it, so Georgetown inevitably uses electricity generated by traditional sources—including natural gas. The ‘100 percent renewable’ claim is little more than virtue-signaling.”

This dishonest reporting needs to stop! Reporters need to get the facts before they write these misleading columns.