Upgrades Under the Inflation Reduction Act

[@theradioison]

Great content Matt. I would recommend lowering the peg board to eliminate the white section behind you and frame you out so that you don't look like you're dwarfed by the background. That "build" neon sign would look great directly behind you.

[@jonathansage2147]

Can a remodeled house become energy star certified, or is this exclusively for new homes? If so, are there incentives?

[@DeuceDeuceBravo]

While I might agree with the overall goal of replacing old inefficient HVAC equipment, the methods are a mess. - SEER rating can be easily manipulated by manufacturers. Not a good basis for qualifying. - Subsidies manipulate the market and don't encourage these companies to make more affordable equipment. - Complexity in these programs encourages sketchy financing programs (or outright scams). - Where are the incentives for a properly sized and installed ayatem? Most dealers/installers will just sell the biggest unti that still qualifies for a rebate. But overall there are no easy/simple solutions so at least we are trying something.

[@crcurran]

These bullet items don't mean we shouldn't have these programs. They do accelerate change.

[@DeuceDeuceBravo]

@@crcurran Agreed. Better than nothing. And they help to get the average consumer engaged.

[@coreyleander7911]

Subsidies absolutely manipulate that’s the whole point and a good thing here since the market is currently not in America but in China/Asia! We need to build batteries, panels, semiconductors here

[@brandonv8721]

Tried to go dual fuel, signed contract....heat pump didn't talk to my infinity furnace correctly....forced an AC down my throat. Yes carrier support okayed the setup from my dealer, saw the emails.

[@robertward1611]

If im an owner builder does the 45L credit apply to me?

[@ASIRIDesigns]

I think Joe Lstiburek and John Straube are the ones to listen to on topics like this, they have a much more realistic perspective. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

[@raymondpeters9186]

Pumicecrete is by far the best building material on the planet Pumicecrete is a mixture of pumice cement and water mixed and poured into a set of reusable forms walls are poured from 12"to 24" thick pumicecrete is fireproof termite proof rust rot and mold proof non toxic and has a high R value and good sound attenuation solid poured walls means no critters can live in your walls Pumicecrete can be built for a fraction of the cost and time and pumice is one of the few building materials that can go directly from the mine to the job site ready to use without any additional possessing and zero waste Google all the walls of my house are made of pumicecrete Take care Ray

[@lookup9078]

Well Built, New Material, Technology, ⭕️ Thx.🎉

[@matthelms4167]

Excellent & informative video Matt! Thank you!

[@imtheonevanhalen1557]

I see new builds with hack carpenters installing 2x10 headers on 32" window openings.....code NEEDS to be severely challenging this lunacy!!

[@OPiguy35]

Any recommendations on builders in Dallas area?

[@michaelkupka5096]

Second this request!!

[@Eric998765]

I want to know the ERI of Matt's new house

[@zaaz1471]

We are tying to get geothermal installed in our home. all in all it's 70k... any money i can recover from local or federal would be _massively_ helpful. thank you for the build show :)

[@misternordberg3675]

Are you building a mansion? I'm doing a 3000 square foot house, 7-9 thousand dollars for the water to water and water to air units. How on earth is it 70K? Are you including the radiant flooring and the foundation? If so, that doesn't count.

[@ShortVersion1]

As someone who intends to some day do geothermal, and who has looked into it before doing airsource... just do ASHP and use the leftover cash for batteries and solar. We have negative electric bill and stay extremely comfortable. There are still diminishing returns with the cost of ground source, and the 40k or so difference in price could go towards powering everything else in your life.

[@zaaz1471]

@@misternordberg3675 47 k for a 4 ton unit plus drilling trenching, and installing. 26k for new ductwork.

[@DeuceDeuceBravo]

​@@misternordberg3675 You're getting a heck of a deal then. Easily $30k for a 1,500 sq ft home in New England.

[@debby8428]

@@misternordberg3675 7 years ago we got an estimate for geothermal. 2600 sq ft house well over $30,000. The guy actually talked us out of it.

[@archstanton9703]

It's rather frustrating because the information is unclear and so far there are no point or purchase rebates yet in AZ. Are these rebates going to be retroactive? We need to replace our 20 year old package heat pump ASAP.

[@5starCA]

Just do it if you want, don’t expect your neighbor taxpayers to pay for it. Are you a communist?

[@coreyleander7911]

@@5starCAcommunist? So you’re saying communism is when tax rebates? God you right wingers are trying so so so hard to hold us all back.

[@MsGreenInspector]

Requesting the Booklet

[@mikejf4377]

The issue with all this is it won't help the people that are living at poverty and have no tax right offs and you have to have a licensed person to install all these different things. IE windows, Refrigerator, Dishwater and adding more insulation in the attic.

[@TheWSCCHEMISTRY]

they have 100% coverage if you are in poverty. Pay attention

[@coreyleander7911]

The exact opposite is true

[@americanmaidband]

Wish they would get the rebates rolled out. I sure would love a new HP and weatherization for my 16 yr old home. Can't wait. Still isn't rolled out

[@Steve-bm2zm]

Lower income people typically don’t own their own homes. Also these lower income people are going to have to front the money and get a tax rebate in a year. Where are they going to get the money. Every HVAC person I’ve talked to hates this.

[@nunyabidness3075]

These programs always seem designed to achieve political goals and help industry more than reduce pollution and help people.

[@coreyleander7911]

@@nunyabidness3075this program specifically makes it free for low income people, not get a tax rebate in a year. So both of you are just ignorant to the content of the bill

[@coreyleander7911]

I doubt you’ve talked to any HVAC people, but why do you think they’d hate this it specifically gives them business? It gets so tiring how you right wingers are brainwashed into opposing anything that moves the world away from fossil fuels and towards clean energy

[@nunyabidness3075]

@@coreyleander7911 Yeah, okay, sure. This will FINALLY be the one that works as intended and helps the poor and reduces carbon output for real. Not like pretty much every other similar program ever. Also, your ad hominem attack is rude, and I’m rather moderate actually. I just happened to have been a government employee and worked for a manufacturer and owned a business and be skeptical. (And yes, old as dirt). What they write, and what the intentions are, and what actually happens have little to do with each other. Also, “lower” is a relative term. Maybe you should try to understand what people are saying before attacking. I don’t have to read the legislation to know that there aren’t going to be renters getting free upgrades for their landlords. If there were it wouldn’t be good either! These programs are less effective than market forces. If you want less energy use, put higher taxes on energy use. If you want more jobs, rip out all the mandates and labor taxes. Let the market figure the rest out. It’s not nearly as hard, it just doesn’t get you votes and power and freezers full of Benjamin’s.

[@coreyleander7911]

@@nunyabidness3075 It's already working. Jack Conness tracks all the investments due to/as a result of the IRA on his website, and from the IRA alone there are 130 new large green tech projects totaling $99 billion in private investment creating 80,200 jobs. This doesn't even include the Chips Act (which brings the total investments to > $250 billion). Some of these projects include batteries, solar, electric vehicles, and wind. When has there ever been a similar program? This IRA is not even a fixed spending bill, it's uncapped. The point is that low income people could take advantage of the loans designed for upgrading their homes for energy efficiency and then use the incentives to pay off the loans. It is free. Heat pumps, battery storage, etc. I just can't imagine thinking "meh market forces do it just fine" is the correct response to watching China dominate the green tech supply chain entirely. The problem is the market. Things were either too expensive or we're dependent entirely on China. Subsidies, i.e. industrial policy, is designed to make the domestic market more palatable for Americans. You really should read the legislation. Since you're such a believer in market forces, surely you approve of the largest customer of pharmaceuticals in America, the US Govt through Medicare, being able to negotiate prescription drug prices now because of the IRA right?

[@methanial73]

I'm so glad you keep politics out of this. We need more content available to people without it turning into some political mud slinging.

[@anonymity604]

yeah totally lol they went right into ESG and Carbon.. totally neutral stuff, if your a lemming culture bot tool.

[@coreyleander7911]

@@anonymity604”carbon” oh how dare

[@brennangraves6458]

I'll never forget the lesson taught to me by my instructor in HVAC systems back in my university days; Dr. Rock said to us, after showing us the math on the whiteboard, " electricity is a high-grade source of power that creates low grade heat." It really hasn't changed.

[@stevengruner6435]

If you're talking electric resistance heat, then sure. Heat pumps move heat, often at 1/3rd to 1/4 of the cost of electric resistance.

[@southbridgeforestHOA]

yeah it has. stop posting simpleton crap. heatpumps are the only heat source that can output more heat energy then the input, because they are moving heat, not producing it.

[@irritablearchitect]

@@southbridgeforestHOA - You're too stupid to know that what you wrote is IMPOSSIBLE. Thermodynamics is something you don't understand, so you need to stay away from things you don't understand, boy.

[@brennangraves6458]

@@southbridgeforestHOA - Simply not possible. The law of thermodynamics will not allow what you stated. Moron.

[@nathanddrews]

All I'm saying is that if we ever want to bring dinosaurs back to life like "Jurassic Park", we're going to need a LOT more carbon in the atmosphere than we have now.

[@xSKOOBSx]

over 300 billion dollars going "back into the economy" which of course is just french for corporate subsidies. "The economy" is doing fine, it is people who aren't doing as hot. At least people that aren't already well established. I recently had to get a new water heater, and from my understanding to get the heat pump rebate, you had to have a licensed contractor install it and submit the rebate, and my lowest quote was $7000. I just installed a traditional electric myself for just shy of $1000. Companies hear tax credits and they just jack up their rates. This isn't helping people, and it isn't increasing adoption by anyone besides well established homeowners that have the capital to just buy the best no matter the cost.

[@aaronorr5586]

Really? My NG water heater was 2300.00 after rebate and that price includes the installation and the expansion tank.

[@xSKOOBSx]

@@aaronorr5586 yeah, there aren't incentives for those. And NG is a more complicated install than a heat pump water heater.

[@aaronorr5586]

@@xSKOOBSx Our NG provider had $200 rebate on the WH, a $325 rebate on the furnace and our electric provider had a further $400 for the AC. That and a further 2000+1000 dollars off the purchase on all the systems paid for at the same time all together installed. I no longer have to worry about the R-22 freon or paying a premium for the R-22 freon on a recharge due to it no longer being imported to the US.

[@coreyleander7911]

Yes how dare the government subsidize corporations to build manufacturing facilities in America and how dare they incentivize homeowners to buy green tech. I’ve seen heat pump + installation range anywhere from $2500 to $10,000. You should get more than one quote. So much cynicism against moving towards clean energy. I’ll never understand it

[@lifeislucci]

It’s time the industry gets this right and stops selling nonsense. Stop calling them fossil fuels, oil does not come from fossils. And Replacing everything with electric motors does not make the world greener. Until we have nuclear power everywhere, we are still burning oil and coal to create the majority of electricity in the United States. Wake up

[@JamesRibe]

Oil literally is a fossil. It's the remains of ancient plants, algae, and bacteria.

[@aaronorr5586]

We should first address the issues of moving the power from the generation points to the usage points by upgrading every regional grid to handle 2x the current population of the region. While in this process allow new Nuclear power plants designed at modern efficiency to be built and to tie into these upgraded regional grids. This will drop the demand for coal and gas and significantly open up our national railway and river barge to transport goods besides coal all across the country. That "should" in turn lower the cost of goods that we purchase day to day. I still believe Gasoline, Diesel, Natural Gas, and Propane will be needed but as the demand on these drop the surplus "should" cause a drop in the pricing.

[@Vigilante-cu9th]

Um, you can't run a gas motor on nuclear... That requires electrification

[@spacemonkey2915]

​@@JamesRibe the deepest any fossil has ever been found is 16,000 ft. We get a lot of oil and gas from far below that level. Fossil fuel is term coined by Rockefeller to make people think there is limited supply.

[@coreyleander7911]

Holy shit but oil literally comes from fossils or dead organic matter being compressed. Are you joking? Replacing combustion engines absolutely makes the world greener as electric grids are increasingly running more on renewables since they’re cheaper

[@robertmarmaduke9721]

Nature Journal just released its Nine Threshholds for Survival which go far beyond de-carbonization and added de-nitrification andcde-phosphorization by elimination of livestock rearing and crop fertilization, moves already underway to seize farmlands for 'minority immigrant equity housing', like our village of 11,000 has been told we must build 5,260 low- and no-income minority housing projects, and they're already tearing down SFRs to build zero-lot line apartments. Sickening. But the Nature Journal 'research' says de-energyization and de-agriculturizationare not enough! Environmental Sustainable Governance (ESG) requires "Legislation to decide just how much people really need _and should be allowed to have, in an inclusive sustainable world"_ Disgusting.

[@kevingrierson2331]

Just remember, in the end, YOU are the carbon they want to eliminate.

[@coreyleander7911]

Literally why do you lie they talked at all about the things you claimed? They didn’t discuss eliminating livestock rearing or crop fertilization, nor to “seize farmland” Insane

[@coreyleander7911]

@@kevingrierson2331it’s insane you just fell for that propaganda. Completely made up but you don’t appear to care

[@ShortVersion1]

Good source of info Matt! Beware comments on anything like this are getting astroturfed by the gas lobby. Zero chance there are normal people who would flock here to comment "NO ESG!" as if that's in the lexicon of normie gasholes.

[@LincolnLog]

Is this "gashole" in the room with us right now, shortstack? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@coreyleander7911]

@@LincolnLogyou are here in the comments though, aren’t you?

[@z06doc86]

Tax credits, rebates and the like have to come from somewhere. Your taxes. We are spending out of control and going broke as a country. We cannot run this country currently without massive borrowing. Stop spending for unnecessary programs so we can afford to address climate change. Narrowly missed shutdown of the country this week and it’s not over yet.

[@DeuceDeuceBravo]

The money we spend on these programs is infinitesimal in the total budget. And spending money on quality, efficient building is a lot cheaper than fixing everything later.

[@BuildSanity]

You can think of fighting climate change as an investment. Experts project if we don't stop climate change, it'll cost us ~$2 trillion a year by the end of the century. Compare that to the entire Inflation Reduction Act spending on climate change of ~$300 billion spread out over 10 years (so $30 billion per year or so). We should actually be INCREASING our spending to fight climate change because our efforts right now aren't good enough and it's going to cost us later.

[@80396]

@@BuildSanity The biggest carbon reduction payoff is by far having fewer kids. Unfortunately, almost all citizens in even modern, first world, "educated" countries subscribe to obviously absurd sexual, religious, and or political ideologies, and almost unanimously reject reason in favor of ignorance, delusions, and biases. #PHILOSOPHY

[@larrytinnin3357]

The country shut down is ALWAYS BS, is a game, the topic means nothing, and no one cares when they say “shut down”. Nothing will change its all a stood game that we are in and we are not the players

[@DeuceDeuceBravo]

@@80396 Fewer humans would definitely help, but then we run into other issues like: who fuels the economy? and who takes care of the old people? Birth rates are plummeting in the developed world and this will be a major issue in the decades to come.

[@ReadersOfTheApocalypse]

stay away from ESG

[@seangilboy6053]

blah blah. way to push a bunch of crap on us.

[@coreyleander7911]

Insanely sad you believe this

[@ericcarlson4985]

You lost me Matt! Stick to high performance building. Don't say the build show doesn't do politics and then talk about decarbonization/ ESG.

[@thinktoomuchb4028]

The IRA is law. If any builders are so hung up on their own political bias that they don't want to save themselves and their customers money while building those high performance houses, they're free to do that. Matt's goal was clearly to inform.

[@pyroman590]

​@@thinktoomuchb4028 What rebates are available to new home construction? Everything I've been able to find is based around remodel.

[@thinktoomuchb4028]

@@pyroman590 Not a builder, I just enjoy the channel. I only meant to point out that "decarbonization" was only mentioned because it's part of the law, not because it's the ideologic stance of the channel. Unfortunately, some are so triggered by a word that they fail to see the context. Did Matt even mention ESG? If he did, I missed it. I had the google it.

[@johnhaller5851]

​@@pyroman59028:00 around there, there is a $2500 tax credit to the builder for building Energy Star single family homes, and $500 per unit in multi-family.

[@coreyleander7911]

So you’re saying decarbonization is inherently political because democrats support it and republicans don’t, despite the objective facts showing it needs to be done? Insane. Perfect example of how uneducated most of the world is despite the internet and unmatched modern prosperity

[@hollywinsman9464]

ESG-no thanks.

[@coreyleander7911]

What do you believe that to be?

[@hollywinsman9464]

@@coreyleander7911 Globalist control. The woke folks are being boycotted like Target and Anheuser Busch. ESG = loss of profit.

[@joelw6215]

Ugh ESG no thanks. Turned it off

[@deemartinez836]

You can turn it off bit social credit score is the citizens equivalent.

[@coreyleander7911]

You probably have no idea what that means, nor do I know why you think that’s related to the overall content of the video

[@joelw6215]

@@coreyleander7911 environmental , social , governance. It’s a movement where company’s that are publicly traded are forcing the environment revolution on us when it cost the client more money and it is TERRIBLE for the company’s overall bottom line. I know EXACTLY what that crap is when I see it. And it’s all the building Industry right now. All you have to do is pay attention. They aren’t hiding it anymore.

[@deemartinez836]

All of these businesses are being forced to ESG.

[@One12ondeck]

ESG? Energy star guarantee?

[@kevingrierson2331]

​@Gherrel Environmentl, Social, Governance. Stakeholder capitalism that forces behaviors on companies bypassing controlling them through legislation and tying their ability to do business and obtain financing to way the banks and insurance companies want.

[@jonathansage2147]

​@Gherrel it's an anti-ESG bot.

[@One12ondeck]

@@jonathansage2147 OK

[@kevingrierson2331]

​@Gherrel Jonathan is just calling everyone that has a comment he doesn't a bot. Don't fall for it. Do your own research on ESG, it is here and controlling the decisions of nearly every company. This is why every company seems to be pushing political issues even when it would seem to go against making profits for their investors and owners. Up next is the social credit score that will control YOUR actions. Do your own research though.

[@randymatthews5263]

Wow, lots trolls. I’m only asking why decarbonize? Is it necessary tomorrow or now. I’m insulating with taping seams and zip board for my remodel. Plus using ERV with a Variable Air conditioner because it makes sense to fix and make air tight. Would have been easier to build it right but I bought a 70’s house that was build under Jimmy Carters administration. The stuff they used for energy efficiency was bad for my wife breathing problems. Before we do anything we need to ask if it makes sense.

[@bob88pct]

The Inflation Reduction Act , that's an oxymoron. 😂

[@coreyleander7911]

Even though since its passage inflation has gone down?

[@timlippens1458]

0.04 % co2 currently. Can’t eat 🥩 🐓 🥚. What we going to eat when all the plants die from lack of co2

[@kevingrierson2331]

They are already getting people normalized to eating bugs.

[@coreyleander7911]

Bruh what are you talking about? Y’all are getting some SERIOUS Alex Epstein propaganda or something. We have too much CO2 in the atmosphere, not not enough

[@coreyleander7911]

@@kevingrierson2331no they aren’t?

[@5starCA]

This is a corporate cronyism socialism crap episode. I’m building a high performance house now and don’t expect taxpayers or anyone else to pay for my choices and preferences.

[@coreyleander7911]

“corporate cronyism socialism” Buzzword buzzword buzzword!

[@MrTexasDan]

How exactly does dumping $385B of taxpayer and borrowed funds into the economy reduce inflation?

[@coreyleander7911]

That’s not what the bill does, nor is it $385 B. It’s uncapped tax credits and incentives for companies to build things in America. It’s deflationary

[@MrTexasDan]

@@coreyleander7911 It's $900B now, of which over 85% goes to dubious climate-change projects and Obamacare, all not-so-coincidentally Democrat hot topics, and not at all inflation-reducing. But, if they called it what it is, it would never have gone through eh?

[@coreyleander7911]

@@MrTexasDan It's not any fixed amount or amount at all that taxpayers are spending. It's tax credits i.e. the government simply takes on more debt at the end of every year. This isn't the same as spending new money or you'd call the IRS not being able to get all the taxes it's supposed to get every year new spending, something which Dems are also trying to get the IRS to do better to increase tax revenue. I'm sure Fox News has also convinced you this is a bad thing. I mean, how could going after rich tax cheats be good right? LOL. Why are the "climate related projects" in any way dubious? The IRA is responsible for $1.4 billion in new planned investments in Texas from Tesla and like 5 solar companies, where it's expected to create 4,000 jobs. All in all though across the country, GM, Stellantis, Toyota, Ford, Samsung, Hyundai, Panasonic, and more have all announced battery manufacturing facilities because of the IRA incentives. Are you also against Medicare finally being able to negotiate prescription drug prices as the nation's largest pharmaceutical customer? The IRA finally made that happen.

[@MrTexasDan]

@@coreyleander7911 Corey, However it's done ... tax credits, outright spending, etc, still involves a migration of wealth from taxpayers, or children of taxpayers to some other entity. Spending on solar to "create jobs" when you could have just not taxed those taxpayers always always always is a worse idea financially. Do the math ... $1.4B for 4000 jobs is a really bad deal for the taxpayer. In most of the country solar can not stand on its own without subsidies. And remember, every single cell in those solar panels was made in China. I am against the massive shift in wealth that Obamacare represents. Hide it or justify it all you want ... but I did not slave away at my education and work all my life to pay for someone who wouldn't.

[@coreyleander7911]

@@MrTexasDan it's so hard to talk to you folks when everything you say in your replies is wrong. Like how can I reason with you? - Tax credits are not a migration of wealth from taxpayers. Full stop. Taxpayers will pay the same taxes regardless of whether anyone takes advantage of the tax credits or not. - The government isn't spending on solar! You're so confused! Private corporations are spending on solar in the US and Texas in particular, with federal incentives and bonuses. This has nothing to do with the taxpayer! I mean you almost state as a matter of principle here that it's always bad to do anything to help a domestic industry, especially one that is needed practically and to compete internationally. - I'm not sure at all what you think you mean by citing the $1.4 B for 4,000 jobs as a "deal." How could it be a "bad deal for the taxpayer" or a deal at all as I said when the $1.4 B figure is simply the amount of investments announced by private corporations in Texas *as a result* of the IRA? That figure is not the cost to the taxpayer. It's a win win for the US and Texas. - So in one breath you say solar cannot stand on its own without subsidies, which isnt true it's just expensive with moderate demand, but then in the next sentence point out how many or almost all of the solar cells are made in China. So which is it, are you against boosting the domestic solar industry to compete with China & make solar panels cheaper for Americans or are you for letting China be the world's producers of solar cells forever & keeping most Americans out of the solar market? You must understand that fossil fuels are finite. We will eventually have to switch to renewables. It's worth it to speed the transition to clean energy. - No matter what I say or point out you're just going to come up with some false claim to spew to reject the objective good the IRA + Chips Act + Infrastructure Act have done. It's very sad, and almost entirely a result of your culture, environment, and politics. I just wish you could be reasoned with!

[@martinp1544]

Commercial real estate is crashing, problem solved!

[@nunyabidness3075]

Shouldn’t have started with the comment on politics. I’m turning this off very early since it seems all this corporate guy is doing is talking politics. If you don’t want to be about politics, you’re going to have to try harder.

[@randymatthews5263]

De-carbonation is miss on reality. Electricity comes from mostly fuels that emits carbon. So, where the carbon is emitted is the question. On a carbon life planet, we have to ask if this a war on life. Carbon is the molecule where energy is exchanged from one living thing to another. Electricity is great to get a mechanical advantage to make our lives more comfortable. Efficiency is a wonderful thing that scales to help the less fortunate people’s lives. But access to basic things because of regulations makes life more difficult for those on the other economic side.

[@BuildSanity]

The global consensus of scientists that study our climate says that we need to stop emitting so much CO2 into the atmosphere or else it's going to make the Earth much less inhabitable by humans and cause us untold trillions of dollars in damages from worsening storms, flood, hurricanes, etc. It's going to get harder to grow food in a lot of places, and people will be forced to migrate out of regions that have become less hospitable. If you have some research or data to disprove climate change you should submit it because you'll probably win a nobel prize

[@kjlovescoffee]

This is changing rapidly, and it will continue to change rapidly. The LCOE for renewables are dropping well below LCOE for coal/gas - the change is simply inevitable.

[@spacemonkey2915]

​@BuildSanity No. Anybody that speaks or writes against climate hoax gets canceled, fired, and made an example of.

[@dbarrington1]

@@BuildSanity He did not say anything to deny climate change you oof.... He said changing to Electric just changes WHERE the Carbon is emitted... Most electricity in the USA is generated from Coal fired electric plants and or Natural Gas fired..... Its still using Fossil fuels... unless it is Nuclear... or the limited solar and or wind....

[@coreyleander7911]

Not only is decarbonization not a “miss on reality” it’s a required part of the reality we now have to face because people like you were happy to be dumb and uneducated enough to elect politicians to protect the fossil fuel industry. This is shown by the very comment you’re now making. Alex Epstein type propaganda tbh. You then falsely state that electricity comes mostly from fuels that emit carbon, but electricity actually mostly comes from renewable sources in some states like California or entire countries in the Nordic region. It is a choice to use the finite amount of coal or natural gas we have to produce electricity. We practically have an infinite amount of renewables + plenty (relatively more than fossil fuels worth) of nuclear fuel. A war on life is when we lessen the amount of a molecule in the atmosphere that we as humans are artificially putting there, which itself destroys life in many ways from natural disasters to the destruction of habitats?

[@bob88pct]

The inflation reduction act, according to janet yellen inflation is just transitory.

[@johnm.4141]

No need to have somebody that agrees with the Green new deal on your show. Electrification does not equal reduce carbon. What percentage of power to charge teslas come from coal power plants?

[@spacemonkey2915]

Not to mention the fact that the batteries are made from RARE Earth metals. Far more rare than crude oil, coal, and gas.

[@DTWCT]

​@spacemonkey2915 mined by child labor. It's for the planet though! 🙄

[@coreyleander7911]

@@DTWCTnot mined by child labor. Lithium is mined in Australia mostly

[@coreyleander7911]

@@spacemonkey2915how could you possibly believe rare earth minerals, and then highlighting the “rare” as if that’s supposed to refer to their abundance in nature and not chemical properties, are less common than fossil fuels? Fossil fuels are not even recyclable…

[@coreyleander7911]

So you believe that it’s not worth electrifying cars even as the grid increasingly gets more and more electricity from cleaner sources like natural gas for starters beyond coal, but then renewables/ nuclear? No grids are 100% coal these days. Mostly natural gas

[@cquintana9326]

AGW is a #ClimateScam by #ClimateScammers. #NoESG!

[@coreyleander7911]

“Climate Scammers”

[@JessDurden]

i disagree

[@coreyleander7911]

With?

[@Bradimus1]

Amazing whomever is convinced that producing your own power at home, being independent of the grid or even paid by the Utility for your production, in a really well built efficient home that will be more comfortable and last longer - it's part of a scam! Beijing is calling to you if you want to be where they burn all the coal and do everything as cheaply and free from environmental concerns as possible. But you better hurry, they're also going to get rid of these things.

[@misternordberg3675]

Rewrite this post, it's incoherent.

[@Bradimus1]

@@misternordberg3675 elaborate.

[@johnhaller5851]

That first sentence is a confusing mess and needs to be broken up into multiple sentences. It appears you are against well-built and comfortable homes.

[@martinp1544]

Dude, I was interested in this topic until he said, ESG, decarbonization & electric only.... My eyes glassed over and "communists" came to mind...... blah blah blah blah....

[@coreyleander7911]

“communists came to mind” So you’re literally saying in black and white that you associate any move towards clean energy with communism?

[@martinp1544]

Dude, Every heard off the term "Watermelon"? "Green" on the outside and Commie on the inside? China, India and others continue to pollute exponentially more than the USA. There is NOT enough Rare Earth minerals to create all the batteries the go "Clean Energy". There is not space to put up enough (Made in China) solar panels and bird killing windmills. If you were serious about clean energy ie... carbon neutral, nuclear has to be a priority...... This is all a shell game to economically cripple the West that feral Leftists and Communists love... @@coreyleander7911

[@rajbanwait325]

1500-2000 a.d. Keep Advancing

[@SpaceSailor-tu3vl]

Well you miss the mark on this one no politics this was a marketing stunt for a politician agenda . Sad

[@coreyleander7911]

“a politician agenda. Sad”

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