Bankrupting the Pacific Northwest
A Net Zero Documentary
AT A GLANCE
• Radical environmental policies in the Pacific Northwest aim for 100-percent carbon-free electricity generation before 2050.
• The documentary What Does It Cost? by Ken Peterson exposes the economic consequences for taxpayers.
• Electricity costs could skyrocket by 450 percent, total costs will top $1 trillion, and effects on temperature will be imperceptible.
• Government data prove that there is no climate crisis, and that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide improve the environment.
Oregon and Washington are leading the Net Zero charge, having enacted a series of radically ambitious measures that aspire to make these states’ electricity producers 100-percent carbon-free by 2040 and 2045, respectively.
Oregon kicked off the insanity in 2017 with passage of the Statewide Transportation Strategy Act, which subsidized public transit, electric vehicles, and electric-vehicle (EV) charging stations. It also imposed a vehicle privilege tax.
Just two years later, the state House passed the Clean Energy Jobs Bill, which proposed a cap-and-trade tax not just on utilities, but on transportation and manufacturing as well. After the state Senate nixed the legislation, then-Governor Kate Brown, a Democrat, issued an executive order launching the Climate Protection Program (CPP) to skirt voters and impose the bill’s eco-tyranny. A judge struck down Brown’s CPP in 2023, saying that it exceeded her statutory authority, but the Oregon Supreme Court overturned his ruling.
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