In 2011, Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. spoke to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco. In that speech, he expressed his approval of a potential “smart grid,” which would enable the government to remotely control the electrical appliances — and even air conditioning and hot water — of Americans, with the presumed goal of reducing energy usage. The New York Post’s campaign reporter Diana Glebova has the details.
In a 2011 video reviewed by The Post, the environmental lawyer and noted vaccine skeptic argued that the $250 billion grid would eliminate peak demand periods and insisted that consumers would “not care” about their devices being rendered inoperable for 15 minutes at a time.
The smart grid would “allow the utilities to send the signals through the line to turn off the hundred water boilers in a million homes for 15 minutes in order to avoid the peak…
