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 ...
Massachusetts is gonna’ look like 19th century England but without coal- heavily bundled-up peasants burning candles and oil lamps by night
The power company is blaming this on the high demand for natural gas, which doesn’t seem right.
Massachusetts’ residents keep blocking pipelines to bring Natural Gas into the area.
For years energy experts have warned that New England would pay a price for wanting to use more and more natural gas for heating buildings and to replace dirty coal-fired power plants for producing electricity, while not making any investments in expanding gas pipelines.
http://www.necn.com/news/business/Massachusetts-Electric-Rates-Soar-277009371.html
I bet libs fume when going through Indy
and see those big smokestacks right on 465.
My farm borders on TVA property.The Sierra Club
and others tried to shut this one down.
They are spending about a Billion upgrading
to keep it open.
they’re gonna’ need some bigger boats...
“Just wait, winter heat bills are really going to hurt people.”
And scarcity too. If the brutal cold predicted occurs people are going to be freezing.
Without saying it directly the article says that the cost of fuel oil is also going to skyrocket as the electric companies start using fuel oil when they can’t get Natural Gas.
Necessarily....
If Massachusetts was fair, it would charge those who believe in global warming an additional 78% and charge those who believe in Science the same rate that they have been paying.
No kidding. I half expect the power company to tell me they are converting their electric plants to electric power.
They have backed themselves into a corner.
Our local is hydro, and then coal. Western Ma is crazy, but not as crazy as those in the eastern part of the state.
I wonder if the silly council ever thought about calm and overcast days for a week or so. The silly council wants to be the 'greenest city' at the expense of the citizens.
The DUmmies deserve the people they voted for, nothing less. The city already owns acres of solar panels east of the city that came in at tremendous cost overruns. Who would have thunk it....
The New Hampshire-based almanac predicts a “super-cold” winter in the eastern two-thirds of the country. The west will remain a little bit warmer than normal.
Just wait, winter heat bills are really going to hurt people.
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They’ll get subsidies paid for by you since it’s a blue state.
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