Welcome to Clown World: You'll never guess what is keeping a coal power plant open

The demands by the left that we 'fundamentally transform' our society (do those words sound familiar?) into a carbon-neutral economy steps on a lot of rakes. There is Biden's EPA chief, Joseph Goffman, who doesn't know how much electricity the United States needs each year, the politicians who don't realize that charging EVs requires about 90% of traditional grid electricity, and, of course, everyone's favorite giggling vice president, who famously can't even figure out how to charge an EV.

But maybe the biggest rake of all so far came recently from Kansas, where a coal-fired power plant that was slated for closure will now remain open because ... it is needed to supply power to a brand new, $4 billion Panasonic EV battery factory just outside of Kansas City.

The Self-Licking Ice-Cream cone in living color: $4b electric vehicle battery plant in Kansas uses so much energy it requires its own coal plant 🤡https://t.co/e5slpOpoWr
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) October 1, 2023

The amount of energy the new Panasonic EV battery facility needs is so high, in fact, that a representative from Evergy, the public utility serving the factory, testified before the Kansas City Corporation Commission that there are serious 'near-term challenges from a resource adequacy perspective.'
Put another way, the Panasonic EV battery factory in De Soto is an energy hog of epic proportions. As such, Evergy says it will have to continue burning coal at a nearby power plant in Lawrence that was previously slated to eventually transition to natural gas production.

If you are laughing right now, that is the appropriate response.

The jokes write themselves these days. https://t.co/sPqwQovU4u
— Cecilia Glennon (@CeciliaGlennon) October 1, 2023

Except we're not supposed to laugh, because our moral, intellectual, and spiritual betters on the left know what's good for us and demand our compliance.

The greater good. pic.twitter.com/QxaX0ty5bN
— Soltrain😘 (@soltrain69) October 1, 2023

How do people pay $60,000 for an EV without first studying the consequences to the environment and themselves? See below for one environmental problem with the need for fossil fuel. There are numerous others, like what to do with the used batteries in 5 years. https://t.co/8zr5som2fm
— William Sumner Scott (@WmSumnerScott) October 1, 2023

Hey, we're not supposed to talk about that. Or, for that matter, where the materials for EV batteries come from.

Destroying the environment to save it https://t.co/Qb0fn65GAs
— Giveme1WS (@Aidansheart) October 1, 2023

Some emissions are more equal than other emissions https://t.co/dMM1X3Ipxo
— Mr S is gonna live on a boat (@slomotion4199) October 1, 2023

Along with the jokes, the Orwellian parallels also write themselves.

Yup. We live in 🤡🌏 https://t.co/468ZoG4I3x
— Scott Carpenter (@ScottRCarpenter) October 1, 2023

There really is no denying it anymore.

But as funny as it is to laugh at these embarrassments, there is a serious side to all of this.

I'm waiting for the end of this Lysenkoism.
Hopefully we won't have millions die as a result of it, as happened a hundred years ago. https://t.co/COqoUe5NUl
— Unclean (@CoyoteUnclean) October 1, 2023

We hope that as well. But there is a reason a growing number of people are starting to call the environmental activist movement a 'death cult.'

Hopefully, we wake up from Clown World pretty soon.

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