So-called ‘progressives’ are long on moral posturing, but short on human compassion. Enamoured with costly wind and solar, and determined to outlaw every last reliable power source, they couldn’t care less about the inevitable spike in power prices that follows, that disproportionately punishes the least fortunate souls among us.
Letting granny freeze in the dark is a sacrifice that the renewable energy zealot is always ready to make. It’s all about saving the planet, don’t you know?
As broadband Internet took off a decade ago, policy wonks talked about a ‘digital divide’ between rich and poor.
These days – with the recent emergence of ‘energy poverty’ amongst first world nations – a growing proportion won’t have power at all and, accordingly, no hope of connecting their dimly lit homes to the Internet, either.
Where policymakers once saw electricity as a commodity to be provided universally, a literal beacon of light…
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