The Green New Deal: The enormous opportunity in shooting for the moon

Wow, this piece, a precursor to the one I posted earlier, is even better. (My god I hate Medium.com tho)

Some amazing quotes:

People will raise the specter of how we will pay for all of this. That is not the right way to think about it. Given the enormous cost savings from future efficiencies, the question should be “how do we finance this slam-dunk investment?” Reducing a major source of costs by 50% should be seen as the source of unassailable competitive advantage for our economy, an investment sure to repay itself many times over.

Summarizing how this isn’t a deprivation plan

In short, without changing the size of our homes, or our cars, or fundamentally changing the fabric of our lives, these discounts mean that a fully electrified energy economy using non-carbon fuel sources would require less than half of the total amount of energy we use today.