Posted on 09/26/2014 6:57:50 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BOSTON (AP) — Many Massachusetts households are going to see their electric bills shoot up 37 percent this winter.
State regulators have approved a 37 percent increase for National Grid household customers that would mean an average of $33 per month more for the typical residential customer. Large business customers will see even higher increases.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
This scares the heck pout of me! I already have an electric bill like the national debt and it comes every month. Even though I do not live anywhere near the area, once the utilities figure out that National Grid Infrastructure is something they can exploit for more profit, it will be on every bill nationwide.
BTW: The ‘infrastructure’ is the responsibility of the utility. Every bill in every state is already figured with additional charges for maintenance and updates to infrastructure right in the bill.
There may be state fule/air regs as well. Here on the AZ/CA border, fuel is over a buck a gallon higher in Cali than AZ. Part of the reason is CARB laws that force places like needles to have ‘California blend’ fuel shipped in instead of the trucks supplying AZ border towns to frive over the bridge since they are there already.
I remember the City Fathers of Needles were once pondering setting an ‘observer’ on the road to record Needles residents who would cross over to gas their cars up in Mohave Valley in sight of the border. They wanted to mail them a ticket/fine in order to force people to buy Cali priced gas from Cali fuel stations.
That didn’t go over well. But it all boiled down to state laws causing the headache.
The utility rates in Austin are going to skyrocket as well. The Silly council voted to get off all fossil fuel generated electricity. The entire city will be powered by solar and wind generated sources.
The city owns a gas powered facility at Long Lake, and is a partner at the Fayette county power project. I think they already sold their portion of the South Texas nuke. The idiots deserve what they voted for.
When has he ever been in the state?
This is useful. Can you provide the link? I am not sure what the justification for the increase is, but natural gas prices do not justify any increase, let alone this one.
http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/natural-gas.aspx?timeframe=10y
No. It won't. Real world has more constraints than their fantasies.
Click the chart to go directly to the Energy Information Adminstration (DOE) data sheet with the info.
They’ll be freezing in the dark, but their air will be clean.
Saving money going green isn't saving money, the Government will make you pay
for not using their grid.
Gotta pay for that boutique electrical generation. But the electrons are greener......
I think you overstate the vote. They gave a preference to Solar but didn't end anything else. Are you speaking about a vote different than the following:
Austin, Texas Passes a New Law Making Solar a ‘Default’ Generation Resource
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/austin-energy-solar
August 29, 2014
Last night, the Austin city council voted in favor of a resolution that would increase the city's rooftop and utility-scale solar targets by 800 megawatts over the coming years.
It creates a plan that would build a small paradise for distributed energy companies, including a utility-scale solar target of 600 megawatts by 2017, a rooftop solar target of 200 megawatts by 2020, explicit language enabling third-party solar ownership, a floor price for the value-of-solar tariff, and a mandatory strategy to procure 200 megawatts of fast-response storage.
If only that would happen, America could be saved. Red states would be solidified and gain electoral votes, while blue states would lose both a lot of talent and electoral votes. If all of CA's conservatives moved up to Washington, it would be red. Hell, if all of WA's conservatives moved down to CA, that would probably be red. All of Vermont's and Massachusett's conservatives could turn New Hampshire hard red. All of Iowa's conservatives could turn Indiana solid red. All of Colorado's, could keep Montana or turn Nevada. All of New Mexico's could make Arizona safe.
All it would take would be some self-arrangement along moral-value lines. If only...
But they will still hate and blame conservatives.
They keep trying to make it more expensive.
New Englanders Oppose Proposed Pipeline — And The Tariff To Pay For It
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3200350/posts
September 2, 2014
The route proposed for the pipeline’s Massachusetts segment runs through dense forests, wetlands and small towns in the northern tier of the state...
The proposed Massachusetts segment of Energy Direct is 126 miles long. The main pipeline will be either 30- or 36-inches in diameter — depending on the volume of gas that consumers sign up to buy — with the larger pipe capable of delivering more than 2 billion cubic feet of gas per day.
Eventually it will happen because America is headed toward balkanization one way or the other. We are split evenly and diametrically opposed to our respective cores.
Regardless of any coming collapse or wars, we are not going to stay 50 united states. I know a lot of people hate the idea. I do too in many ways. But eventually the people that push for mainstreaming pedophillia while making college kids fill out sex consent forms will go their collective way and those of us who believe in a Reagn/Founder vision of America will go another. America began as 13 states and will do just fine at less than 50. the libs and their Rino enablrs can starve in the dark without us.
Won’t be easy. Divorce never is.
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