No Coal, No Power, No Gas

American Thinker ^ | February 11, 2011 | Jeffrey Folks

[deadrock]

You laid that out perfectly. Thanks.

[SeeSac]

You forgot that the NG plants pay less for gas than residentials and the NG pipelines were diverted to residentials reducing supplies to NG power plants reducing electrical supply. Free market in action. Texas does not pay for much ‘spinning’ reserve so the price to pay for cheaper electrical rates overall is more blackouts in times of need. Free market in action.

[The Great RJ]

In February 2008 similar rolling blackouts were narrowly averted in Texas. The cause was a weather front that idled most of the state's wind turbines during a peak demand caused by cold weather. Obviously the folks controlling electric generation in Texas failed to learn from that experience.

What Texans are experiencing will soon be country wide. Thanks to Obama and environmental radicals we all may be shivering or sweltering in our darkened homes and standing in long lines to get our ration of $5 per gallon gasoline all in the name of of the Dogma of St Algore and the Church of Global Warming.

[darth]

Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

Still, we need to let the people know who the guilty parties are. The environazis literally kill people by preventing the production of electricity. Where are the investigative reporters?

[The Pack Knight]

That’s exactly what we need. Ultimately, we can only beat the Luddites in the environmental movement through the legislature, not the courts, and that can only be done by winning over the voters.

I think many of them are slowly coming around and starting to see through the mountains of propaganda they’ve been bombarded with, and I think the key is to make them realize that the environmentalists’ target is not pollution, but their way of life. They need to know that the ultimate goal of the environmentalists is not to make their lives better, but to make their lives worse.

Unfortunately, it’s going to get harder and harder as we go forward. We have an entire generation of voters coming of age now that have been indoctrinated with the most extreme of environmentalist mythologies from their first day in kindergarten. That’s going to take a lot of deprogramming, especially with most of the popular media squarely on the side of the environmentalists.

Still, I have to believe that truth and reason still count for something, and both of those are on our side.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[SteamShovel]

the NG pipelines were diverted to residentials reducing supplies to NG power plants reducing electrical supply

NG should not be used for stationary generating stations. It is a fuel that is easy and relatively safe to use in residential settings and could serve as a useful portable fuel to replace gasoline and diesel if/when their price is too high or supply is low.

Coal and Nuclear power should be used for stationary electrical generation simply because it is available and the personnel who know how to use it must be highly trained.

In other words, use the difficult fuels at generation stations and leave the convenient and easy to use fuels for homes, businesses, and transportation. This would also go a long way to easing some of the pipeline issues that will inevitably get worse if we insist on a greater use of NG for electricity.