Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

Texas state government is itself working to counter the federal subsidies of wind and solar by adding new fees and charges to discourage building more wind and solar:
www.houstonchronicle.com

Commented: Saturday, July 1st, 2023 @ 5:35 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The average Texan, other than the disciples of Climate Scientology, would agree that wind and aolar are useless, Remember the big cold snap a couple of years ago when wind and solar failed and Texas had a blackout? Unfortunately, those federal subsidies are putting too much of this unreliable crap in their state. Here is the real impact of wind and solar on the Texas power grid: stopthesethings.com

Commented: Saturday, July 1st, 2023 @ 6:54 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Wind turbines, especially for offshore wind, are also highly vulnerable to hurricanes, and Roy Cooper is bound and determined to line our coast with these whale-killing eyesores. Wind turbines are also very fickle on generating electricity. For multiple days this month, a heat dome stretching from Texas to the Canadian praries has meant little wind and almost zero wind energy production across a very wide area and at a time that there is high demand for electricity. The same thing happened in months long "wind droughts in Europe that caused a collapse in electricity production by wind turbines over a prolonged period. Both wind and solar are vulnerable, expensive, and unreliable.

Commented: Friday, June 30th, 2023 @ 3:20 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

You are dumb as a box of rocks, Bogus Bob. If you would watch that British TV docementary, and listened to the scientists interviewed there, you would perhaps gain insight that this whole climate crusade is a political boondoggle. Earth's climate has always changed and human CO2, or indeed any CO2, has absolutely nothing to do with it. All you do is rehash the globalist narrative, which is a pile of BS.

Commented: Monday, June 26th, 2023 @ 5:59 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

You cannot comprehend the difference between the government forcing you to put something in your body that is not properly tested and is likely harmful, like fake meat or an mRNA shot, and forcing you to put something in your car that is potential harmful to the car. Sheeple like you are a threat to the rest of us.

Commented: Sunday, June 25th, 2023 @ 6:55 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

OK, lets take that a step further. Instead of an oppressive big government dictating change that harms our existing cars, they dictate change that harms our own bodies. Should we stand still for that????

Its one thing for things to change on their own, but quite another for Big Brother to dictate change.

Commented: Saturday, June 24th, 2023 @ 1:58 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is no big surprise. The WHO is controlled by the ChiComs, who have also (like the Russians) been funding radical environmentalist groups in the west because they want us to commit energy suicide. The ChiCom leaders have also in the past few years become favorites of the globalist / fascist WEF leadership, so that connection also fits. The US needs to get back out of the corrupt Chinese controlled WHO.

Dr. Vaclav Klaus, former President and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, said it best when he called climate alarmism "a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today."

Commented: Friday, June 23rd, 2023 @ 11:04 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

WE have a rock star for the taxpayers in Dale Folwell who we need to get behind. Mark Robinson at least says the right things on tax and spend issues, although he has not been in an office that gives him an actual record on those things like Folwell. Why in the world would we want someone who is not solid on tax and spend issues like Troxler?

I did not know about the Farmers for John Edwards history of Troxler. Now that I do, I will withhold my vote for Troxler for any office. A John Edwards "Republican" pushed by a Tillis "Republican" is not what we need!

Commented: Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 @ 10:12 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

There you go, as a typical leftist wanting to qualify freedom of speech. While the Proud Boys are sort of "out there", there are even more dangerous gorups on the left that are prone to violence like Antifa, BLM, and various environmental extremists. Take the eco-extremists group "Last Generation" which has committed hundreds of crimes in the past year. europeanconservative.com

Everyone needs free speech. When Antifa or BLM or eco-etremists start beating someone up, that is a crime and it needs to be punished.

Commented: Monday, June 19th, 2023 @ 11:11 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

"Green is the new red (as in communism)" is a slogan I first heard five or six years ago. It seems there is a lot of truth to it. Or course, the term "eco-fascism" has been around for a while too. THe key is the environmental extremism is a big danger to democracy.

Commented: Monday, June 19th, 2023 @ 10:14 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

When far left "social justice" dogma and homosexual kissing invade math class, something is badly wrong with our schools. What in the dickens is our Beaufort County School Boards doing adopting a new math curriculum filled with "social justice" political propaganda?

Commented: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 3:47 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Some of the worst destroyers of forests in today's world are the green energy grifters. They do this multiple ways. They clear cut old growth forests in Canada and the US, including North Carolina to make wood pellets to fire "biomass" electric plants in Europe. These are often retired coal plants, and burning wood pellets generates more CO2 than burning coal for the same amount of electricity produced, but they call it "green energy" because it is "renewable". We have some "biomass" electric plants in the US, but most are in Europe. It is just American and Canadian trees that are firing those plants in Europe.

Then there is the clear cutting of forests to actually build the "solar farms" and "wind farms". To look at just one example here. A request under the UK's equivalent of the Freedom of Information Act to Foresty Scotland produced not only documents but an official calculaton by that government agency of how many trees had been cut down in Scotland for wind farms on public land. This did not include pribate land deforestation or any of the solar farms. They calculated that 13.1 million trees had been cut down just of public land to build wind farms in Scotland. Wind and solar are very land intensive and forest loss to build these facilities worldwide is huge.

Then there is the blades for the wind turbines. The core of these is balsa wood which is light and strong, which is covered with resins. The source of the balsa wood is the Amazon rain forests, called "the lungs of the planet" which is being clear cut for balsa wood to make wind turbine blades.

It is rare that a new wind or solar farm is built in Germany without local environmentalists suing to stop it, arguing that it will lead to deforestation, loss of wildlife habitat, slaughter of birds and bats, and other environmental harm. Many of those lawsuits are succesful in stopping wind and solar farms. Last year, the German courts, for example, ruled with local enviornmentalists to prohibt a wind energy company from clear cutting the ancient forest that was the setting for the Grimm Fairy Tales.

Wind energy companies are also bad about water pollution. A wind project in Scotland was fined 5 million euros for a massive fish kill that their water pollution was responsible for, and in Ontanio Canada, four wind energy companies have been indicted for multiple criminal felonies for polluting the ground water. As a result of their pollution, water in one district in Ontario was so toxic people were told not only not to drink it or cook with it but not to even bathe in it.

Commented: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 4:01 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

What the globalists are after with their climate alarmist narrative was spelled out by the former President and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Dr. Vaclav Klaus who described climate alarmism as "a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom , democracy, and prosperity in the world today." President Klaus sets it out in detail in his book "Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What is in jeopardy, climate or freedom?" which has been published in eight languages.

Commented: Friday, June 9th, 2023 @ 5:04 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is a broken record with false claims by the climate crazies. We have seen this before with wildfires in California, Australia, and Washington / Oregon, and we are now seeing it in Canada. The problem in all those past cases, and it this one, too, is that environmentalists have stopped the good forestry management practice of controlled burns of underbrush that used to be done on a regular basis. Without those controlled burns, it is much easier for fires to feed on the excess underbrush and get out of hand. As long as good forestry practices continue to be ignored, we will keep having problems with wildfires.

I remember last year when there were major floods in a part of north Germany, and the knee jerk explanation by the talking heads was "climate change". The real culprit, as is very often the case with flooding was deforestation. And guess why the forests in that area had been clear cut? To put up wind turbines and solar panels to "save the planet". That flooding was not caused by "climate change" but to the contrary was caused by climate alarmism.

Commented: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 4:16 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The new pagan cult of Climate Scientology is a lot like the medieval church. Then anything bad that happens was called a punishment from God. Now the climate cultists try to tell us anything bad that happens is a punishment from manmade global warming. Those claims such as related to hurricanes regularly has to be debunked.

Commented: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 12:19 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a liberal rather than a progressive, and that means he has a lot more common sense, but still takes positions that are not optimum on some issues. He did hit the nail on the head about the globalist elitists using the climate scare to try to grab and control power and the danger that poses to democracy.

Commented: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 2:25 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Fact. The huge increase in European electric rates happened BEFORE the Ukraine war. Deal with it, moron. German electric rates, for example, were three times what we pay in North Carolina, as a result of expensive and unreliable wind and solar.

Commented: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 9:24 am By: Concerned Taxpayer