i love my coal stove...
Posted on 10/12/2019 11:57:18 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Now the Governor has come up with a unique plan to end the stalemate. Using an obscure state law regulating utility companies through the power of the Public Service Commission, Andrew Cuomo (who helped kill the pipeline project) is simply ordering the utility to hook up the gas lines anyway.
But there isn’t enough natural gas in the existing pipeline to keep adding more service points. If they continue to hook up new customers, you’re going to see the backpressure in the lines start dropping during peak demand hours. If you look at the configuration of a typical gas furnace installation you’ll note that if the incoming gas pressure drops too low, the furnace will simply shut down for safety reasons until the pressure is restored. The same is true for many other appliances that use natural gas or propane.
Since peak demand typically hits during a severe cold snap in the winter, what Cuomo is ordering could result in a lot of people suddenly going without heat, most likely near the furthest extreme of the gas lines. And at that point, complaining to National Grid and issuing more orders isn’t going to make the heat come back on.
Of course, none of this may wind up mattering (at least until winter) because National Grid turned around and agreed to do the hookups anyway. It was that or face crippling fines handed down by the state. They will apparently open up more lines and just wait for the weakening gas supply to shut off the heat on its own.
There’s a solution to this problem right in front of the governor if he has the common sense to see it. Your problem isn’t the management at the utility. It’s the lack of natural gas supplies running into Brooklyn. Approving the new pipeline would fix this because there is a virtually limitless supply of gas waiting for you in Pennsylvania. (And there would be in your own state as well if you hadn’t signed a moratorium on fracking.) Approve the pipeline, get the gas flowing again and all of these headaches go away. Fail to do so and you’re going to wind up with an army of freezing, very angry constituents in February. It’s your call.
California’s Identical Twin.
Why couldn’t Andrew have ordered them to hook up some windmills?
Dearest LIBs: Enjoy the suck.
More no show jobs for no show gas!
It’s the dem mobster way.
> If they continue to hook up new customers, you’re going to see the back pressure in the lines start dropping during peak demand hours. <
Why doesn’t Cuomo just issue an order repealing the laws of physics, or at least those laws that apply here? (Why do I have to think of everything?)
Why? I thought Democrats want to get rid of ALL fossil fuels. Why the second thoughts?
Hilarious climbdown for the climate change cult crowd.
Apropos of nothing, the best possible idea for a reality TV show would be one where Democrats are beheaded without trial. Naturally I mean that in the nicest possible.
Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/10/10/members-of-previous-generations-now-seem-like-giants-n2554417
First California, then Illinois, now in New York.
Won't be long now.
[[Why doesn’t Cuomo just issue an order repealing the laws of physics,]]
Apparently he’s too busy trying to repealing the laws of biology right now
Dear New York:
Please freeze to death in the dark.
STAT.
Get it over with, then we’ll raze the place and get some productive people in there...e.g... no progressives.
Do it
NOW!
> Why couldn’t Andrew have ordered them to hook up some windmills? <
Keep talking like that and you’ll be invited to participate in the next Democrat debate.
Sounding more and more Soviet, isn’t it.
i love my coal stove...
NY needs the gov to issue an executive order that the temperature shall remain between 65 and 72 degrees.
This is why socialists cannot run a country. They ruin everything they touch.
LOL! I live in central NY State, the more Conservative part, and it always does my heart good when the New York City, and vicinity libs take it in the shorts.
Those utility engineers are full of no can do attitude. So my company just eliminated them. Runs them about 2.5 lostmillion every month at our location.
The governor never quite got the hang of arithmetic and can’t handle numbers except money. He’s a democrat and numbers challenged when it comes to written problems
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