Call it “The New Clean Tech Billionaires’ Club” or “The Breakthrough Energy Foundation” or “Hydra” — either way, it’s a global coalition of the wealthiest people on the face of the planet coming together to influence the governments of the world. According to an article in Energy Wire, Bill Gates has brought together nearly 30 billionaires to pool their immense resources to bring about change.
What kind of change you may ask?
The investor group will “seek to bridge the nearly un-crossable gap that separates promising clean-energy technology from the marketplace.” Okay, sounds interesting. Who doesn’t like a little clean energy? Nobody ever asks for dirty energy.
Who is this investor group? A ‘who’s who’ of power and money spanning the globe. The investor group is led by Bill Gates of course, and comprised of a former California Governor candidate and Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman, the founders of both Facebook and Amazon (Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos), Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic, other big money names like Tom Steyer, Ray Dalio, Chris Hohn, and Julian Robertson.
Then, the list goes transatlantic to include Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, and Patrice Motsepe (A South Africa Mining Baron); from India, commerce giants Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani; from Europe, the German power broker Hasso Plattner, and Frances’ Xavier Niel; from Japan, Masayoshi Son; from Saudi Arabia, Al-Waleed bin Talal (a member of the Saudi Royal family); from China, Jack Ma (Founder of Alibaba Group), Zhang Xin, Pan Shiyi, and Neil Shen; and there are others from Chile, Brazil, and Indonesia.
And, of course, what would make this list of billionaires complete? You guessed it: George Soros.
As if that list of individuals coming together isn’t scary enough, Gates has convinced them that they won’t get a real return on their $2 billion investment for a long time. Rich people usually don’t do that, but I guess they do if they feel real guilty for making sick amounts of money and worrying about how it’s perceived.
When Bill Gates calls and says I’ve got a terrible investment for you, but you’ll be able to say you’re huge for clean energy and you will be named with me as a member, the guilty rich fall like dominoes.
Okay, so what is this billionaires club going to do? They are set to use their clout and ample cash to pressure governments of the world to research and implement new alternative clean energy technology. Is there something wrong with that right off that bat? Not on its face.
But, think about it. They are stating that a private group of multinational power brokers are going to unite to control the governments of the world. Sounds like a James Bond movie.
So, why are all these rich guys doing this? If clean energy was viable, wouldn’t some of the people on this list be investing in it themselves and making another billion on new technology rather than pressuring governments to do it?
You would think so, but you’d be wrong. Some of these billionaires do own energy companies, but instead of taking real risk, they would rather secure lush government contracts from these governments they are pressuring.
What if these billionaires get their way? What if they force many governments of the world to spend trillions on research and clean energy tech? Who pays for all that?
Bill Gates or his club of guilt ridden tycoons? No, you will pay. Millennials will be footing the bill for this initiatives. Boomers are on their way out. Millennials will get hit paying for this stuff the hardest and the longest.
Governments get their money from the people, not from coalitions of concerned philanthropists. So, tell Bill Gates ‘thank you’ if you ever run into him for saddling you with more bills to pay for clean energy boondoggles he is too afraid to invest in. Thanks for nothing, Bill.
