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Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today we're looking at the green energy trend of replacing food farms with solar farms.

I think it's fair to say at this point that in our zeal to transition to green energy,

it wouldn't happen on its own, at least on this timetable, based on market forces.

So government, taxpayer money is spent, regulations are made to encourage it, well there are all

kinds of unintended consequences happening.

I've been reporting on one big one here and in Europe.

We were so anxious to make the transition to green energy that we did so many people

think before we had enough green energy capacity and delivery systems to handle the demand,

which has left us short, Europe's even worse than here.

Skyrocketing prices are a result, shortages rationing and even blackouts.

Something else that's happening is land across this country is being gobbled up for solar

and wind farms.

They take up a lot of space.

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