Posted on 04/29/2025 5:03:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“ Probably a bummer to pull into a charging station and not be able to charge an EV.”
Gas pumps run on electricity too. Pretty rare to find hand pumped gas now.
The place I'm going with this, is most people mistakenly think that a few well-placed solar panels on the roof, or a windmill here or there is going to wean us off of fossil fuels. They have no idea what it would really take. Solar and wind won't make it happen. It's going to take nuclear on a big scale. Or, just keep drilling.
Utterly nobody is skeptical about the climate. They ARE skeptical about the opinion that humans are impacting it in a way that overcomes climate's natural forces.
“Of course, it would be a bummer to pull into a gas station and the electricity powered gas pumps are dead.”
Luckily where I live here in Texas most have backup generators. Thankfully they can be really small (and very cheap) since all they have to do is pump gas and a few other things.
“So they said they are 100% renewable, but were depending upon the EU grid for grid stability? LOL morons, welcome to the Hotel California.”
My understanding regarding Europe is that virtually every country assumes that backup power from adjacent countries will be available for them. Defies logic...but look at the people running the place.
Isn’t that what happened in Texas last year?
“Utterly nobody is skeptical about the climate. They ARE skeptical about the opinion that humans are impacting it in a way that overcomes climate’s natural forces.”
And even for those that think humans can do anything about the climate, they never seem willing to disclose their plan for bringing Russia, China and the Third World in line. And they stay quiet about it as they know people would never put up with it - since it means starting wars to capture and control those countries. But their actions give it away, as we are now seeing in Ukraine.
They question is whether they, the Globalists, can win, and then impose on the world’s 8 billion people what they are now only able to write papers about (population reduction, 15 minute cities, eating bugs, etc.).
“Isn’t that what happened in Texas last year?”
What are you referring to? Maybe the wimpy hurricane that taught Texas that it’s good to keep trees away from power lines? The Big Freeze was 4 years ago and mainly due to the loss of power to natural gas pumping stations which had been forced by the feds to change over to electric power where they had been using their own natural gas to power the pumps.
Agreed. Unbelievable, but here we are: massive power outages across Europe, and the Party blithely explains that this swipe at Western Civilization was the very atmosphere we exist in. Ummmm.... WHAT?
GOOD!!! More of this is needed to snap them out out of their climate delusions. Solar /wind /plus Muslim demographic invasion is Europe’s winning formulae.
Sounds like California regarding other states.
Coming soon to any US state with green energy policies. The destruction of western power grids will be the death of our industry & modern economy.
I wonder if they can do this with the Internet.
Republicans should advance legislation that stipulates States which replace reliable "fossil" generated electricity with intermittent, unreliable "green" electricity are required to first augment with excess "green" supply. If they have to augment with conventional electricity, they MUST pay the prevailing "green" costs, even for the conventional supply.
I’m sure the major political figures in the EU are meeting with Energy Executives trying to figure out a way to keep this from happening again, if the Energy Executives have any ball, they will tell the politicians this will keep happening unless you start building back conventional energy base load power.
Stop shutting down nuclear reactors, stop shutting down natural gas generators, and consider coal generation, if you don’t this will continue to happen and your corporations will become totally uncompetitive because of high energy prices that is unreliable.
I'm not anti-EV. I own an EV. And I'm not anti-solar if it's decentralized. I don't depend on my solar -- even I need a dependable grid for the 20% of my power that I pull from the grid.
That's why I have my own 24V and 12V pumps.
Drop the suction line down the fill hole and pay them cash by the jerry can full (20L or 5 gallons).
Where does the energy to build the solar panels come from?
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