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The idea is to control demand rather than increase supply, which can be more expensive and less environmentally sound.
Two major problems here:
First, the USSC is now basing decisions based on the false "science" of climate change.
Second, as the two dissenting Justices pointed out:
This regulatory power is, "a power reserved for the states."
Let me guess who voted to increase federal power.
Every “liberal” on the court, right?
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States should disobey this unlawful order.
The Esteemed Justices of SCOTUS, in addition to the finest in legal training, are all Electrical Engineers.
Who Knew??
The Supreme Court has no business at all rendering an opinion on the question one way or the other. It is outside their Constitutional purview in my opinion.
Put on a black robe and you're an expert on everything.
This is not something new or different. It has been done for decades in the industrial power market.
For example, I did work for a Natural Gas Storage facility. We used large compressors to pump Natural Gas into a depleted reservoir during off-peak periods and let it flow back out during high peak demand periods.
We had to keep enough supply in the ground to meet a future peak demand. Typical market orders were on a per month basis. We would shut down for a few hours on a few days a year to ease load on the electrical grid.
In exchange, we got a very cheap electrical rate. We owned our own 138kV Substation.
It is not about climate change. It is cheaper to find those customers whose load demand can be postponed versus running a peak, inefficient gas or other fast generator a few hours a year. Less cost and less exhaust.
I don’t see hospitals and schools fitting this role.
Next up, the box-cars to the re-education centers.
I mean, there’s essentially NO limit to what the Fed govt CAN do, Constitutions be damned, no? /I wish
The government just works full time to make it harder to earn a living and buy basic necessities.
Roberts and Kennedy, of course, join to give the left a strong majority.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-840_k537.pdf
Now we know why they had all those Smart Thermostats installed.
And don't even get me started on Constitutionality, which would actually make the states responsible for any emissions regulations.
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Who cares about that old 10th Amendment thing now that we’ve got a Court that can make crap up as they go along, as they’ve freely done ever since FDR slimed his way across the national scene?