Walz-Flanagan energy plan an investment in socialism

DFL Gov. Tim Walz unveiled the Minnesota Climate Action Framework yesterday with Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. One of the things the CAF wants to work towards is "Clean Transportation", which sounds like a noble attempt. As always, the devil is in the details.

The Details

Priority Action #1 is described as the opportunity to "[i]ncentivize investment and create markets for cleaner fuels, such as advanced biofuels, renewable natural gas, sustainable aviation fuels, and electricity."

That's an investment into socialism. It's the opposite of letting people and markets determine what the people want. If these items are cheap, reliable and realistic, private investments will flow to them because people will recognize the profit potential for those products. If these products aren't cheap, reliable and realistic, no amount of taxpayer 'investment' will make them work.

That's because the people will reject these products. What family sits down and says 'let's save the planet. Who cares if these fuels are expensive and unreliable?' People want things that are cheap and reliable. If it doesn't pass that test, the test fails.

Political document

Dr. Scott Jensen, the Republican gubernatorial candidate looking to unseat Walz, scoffed at the plan as a “political document meant to shore up his base … rather than a serious solution for Minnesota’s energy problems."

"In a 69-page document that is supposed to lay out Minnesota’s energy future for at least the next three decades, not once does Governor Walz mention the most reliable energy source that’s free of greenhouse gas emissions during operation: nuclear," Jensen wrote in a recent statement. "However, Governor Walz’s report does mention the words ‘equity’ or ‘equitable’ 40 times."

This frames the issue perfectly:

Tim Walz is owned by Education Minnesota and the environmental activists known as Metrocrats. Metrocrats see pollution wherever their eyes look. Even though Minnesota is one of the cleanest states, it isn't clean enough for the Metrocrats (Democrats found in the Twin Cities).

Expand regional charging.

Coordinate with neighboring states, tribes, and other partners to establish a Midwest regional EV charging network.
That's totally unrealistic. Why would North Dakota shut down the Bakken? If the Walz-Flanagan plan went into effect, Minnesotans would leave and become Dakotans, Floridians, Texans or Iowegians.

This plan has STUPID written all over it. That means it has Walz-Flanagan-DFL written all over it.

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