On the most recent episode of The DrillDown podcast, Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers show how misdirected incentives, governmental corruption and incompetence, made the wildfire disaster on Maui worse but inevitable.
twenty-nine new “clean energy” projects that would cost between $3.5 and $4 billion. This was money allocated by the Biden administration’s “green energy” spending that was contained in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. Where the money flows, the attention goes.
As Eric puts it during the podcast, “You’re wondering why we are not focusing more on the things that save lives. It’s because nobody makes money off it.” “Commissioner Leodoloff Asuncion, the chair of PUC, previously worked directly for Hawaiian Electric, Commissioner Naomi Kuwaye previously worked as an outside attorney for Hawaiian Electric, and Commissioner Colin Yost runs a renewable energy firm, RevoluSun, which partners with Hawaiian Electric… Ethics records show Hawaiian Electric spent $437,252 on lobbying state officials, including utility regulators, since 2019, far more than it spent addressing the Maui wildfire threat.
“There’s this notion government will hold at bay the terrible forces of the private sector – it’s really the opposite. They work together to incentivize the worst behaviors, and this is just another example of that.”
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