AOC's Chief-of-Staff says the Green New Deal was about restructuring the economy - not combating AGW

[Honeycombe8]

48. Well, yeah. Duh. Of course that's unobtainable in the real world.

It's not NEW bldg construction. It's every building that exists in the U.S. It's rude to laugh, but ......

Requiring new construction to meet current era technology is common. That's done all the time.

Do you have any idea how many buildings exist in the U.S.? Take a guess. That's office bldgs, medical complexes, single business structures, malls, strip malls, fast food places, restaurants, houses, apartment buildings, condos, shacks on the side of the highway that are used for who knows what, warehouses, bldgs associates with all state and federal parks, service stations, big box stores and complexes, hospitals, schools, colleges & universities.

There are 3144 counties/county equivalents in the U S.
There are 19,354 municipalities (cities)
There are 16,364 townships
There are over 37,000 special districts
There are almost 13,000 school districts

If you count the buildings in all these areas, I can't imagine how many bldgs there are. To retrofit them for some sort of renewable energy would cost a sum that would boggle the mind. Trillions, for sure.

I think it's better to come up with a plan that's at least attainable in the real world. It has to be reasonable in cost, as well.