Only liberals could devise a way to increase our electric bills in an era of dirt-cheap natural gas.
It used to be the adults were in charge of things like this and the liberals, hippies and academics got to indulge their idle fantasies away from where they would actually do any harm. Now the inmates are running the asylum and the results are as devastating as they are predictable.
They've been lied to for years about 'free' everything from socialism, but they still believe it.
We just aren't doing socialism 'right' and we need more of it to really work. /s
“When will Americans revolt over being forced to use less while paying more?”
Answer: it depends on WHICH “Americans” we are talking about.
The “blue” Americans (from the blue states) will NEVER “revolt”, because they are of the mindset that they should take what government gives them — to revolt might mean the end of their entitlements. (Example: the ever-unchanging “45%” who vote for the democrats no matter how extreme the candidate might be, such as you-know-who)
The “red” Americans? Yes, they are different. But if “the reds” eventually work up the intestinal fortitude to “revolt”, it’s going to be about a lot more than just energy prices and shortages....
As a side bar, please deep your eyes and attention on the “Obama” induced rising gas prices. As happened in January/February/March when the unemployment eased ever so slightly because gas prices were stable, when they started to go up again the employment numbers went south, just as I predicted.
Now the price of “Obama” gasoline is climbing like a shooting star. The next few months will show the USA economy dropping like a ship anchor dropped into the water!!! Every dollar spent on gas is another removed from retail sales. Obama continues on his quest to destroy the American economy and America itself.
I wonder when the American public and voters are going “to get it”, that Obama, his wife Michelle, the entire Democrat Party are no friends of America, or...Americans!!! never have been...and, never will be!!!
“Free Energy” — what a pantload. Such a notion could only be believed by those who believe in the famous skittle-pooping unicorn.
Generating electricity requires payment of three expenses, regardless of the type of energy source. The ratio of these three will change significantly with different types of energy sources, but you will always have these three basic expenses:
1. Cost of Capital which is huge. Power generation is a very capital intensive business.
2. Operating Costs. The cost of the fuel, other consumables and labor required to run a plant.
3. Maintenance Costs. The cost of keeping the plant in operating condition. You can maintain a plant before it breaks (preventive maintenance) or after it breaks (forced outage maintenance).
If you run a wind or solar plant, your operating costs go down due to the “free” fuel, but the others are higher. But the biggest problems with alternatives are:
1. The energy sources are very diluted so it takes a HUGE amount of capital to extract usable amounts of energy. See #1 above.
2. The energy sources are either unavailable at night or are unreliable, hence you need to build twice or thrice the amount of plant you really need to assure energy availability. Or, if these fantasy sources ever produce more than 2% or 3% of our energy, you have to build energy storage plants at astronomical cost. ow do you store electricity? Try batteries, which consume tons of toxic materials. Or pumped storage which would consume mountain tops all over America. Flywheels, supercapacitors, and compressed air energy storage? Forget it.
We’ve been lied to about “alternative” energy? No kidding, but competent engineers have been screaming that for 40 years. Nobody listens, especially pie-in-the-sky politicians and least of all commies.
All our utility bills went up on the August bill.
"Consider the Grain Giant Cargill’s CEO’s extraordinary statement recently that the U.S. Government Mandate that Corn be used to make Ethanol for fuel, could lead to a 40% to 50% rise in food prices! "