So as far as it goes, they are having a normal winter up there and they cant handle it.
Old news, since cancelled.
I have a customer who runs a pallet manufacturing company in MN. HE is on a plan that they can turn off his power if in dire need. He got the call for the first time ever on Wednesday morning when it was -26. He had to send his employees home for the day. Now, he wants them to come in tomorrow to make up for lost production. He is one of the bigger wooden pallet producers in the upper Midwest. He pallets for companies like Birdseye, etc.
How is this possible for a country with so much natural gas? Because of the green socialists in Minnesota being true believers in the superiority of wind mill power and solar panels. How about some nuclear power plants that don’t produce the green house gases that natural gas power plants give off minuscule amounts of?
This happened to my daughter in Michigan as well. Everyone in the area got a emergency tax for the gas company basically saying the same thing turn down your heat.
If we just had in place the “Green New Deal”, i.e., no more natural gas and other fossil fuels—everything would be better, everyone would be safe and warm!!
Solar and wind are totally reliable energy sources, no problem. Just ask Occasional Cortex, that jack@ss-toothed manic moron. If Minnesotans were on purely solar and wind power right now, they would all be warm and cozy.
Time to start selling those bumper stickers again:
“Drive Fast
Freeze a Yankee”
No need to build pipelines. Global warming will make the obsolete in a few years.
I don’t think that 63 is terrible. I keep mine at 62 at all times in the winter, and wear warm clothing. I have a little space heater that I can turn on if I feel a little cold. My heating bill is really low, too. But, that’s me. I understand some people can’t tolerate the cold. My splurge is on a/c, because I can’t take the heat, but my bill is still lower than my neighbors.
What happened to global warming?
I’ve never heard of them making such a request before. Lived there most of my life too. It was only one friggen week! We’ve had whole months of below zero weather and never been asked or advised to turn down the thermostat, especially as low as 60. WTF are they gonna do when more typical winters befall us?
Which is why it is always a good idea to have a secondary heat source.
Native Minniesodan here, with lots of family still htere.
In the house I grew up in, we had a coal furnace that we also burned wood in as another alternative energy source. We eventually went to an oil fired heater.. years later in a new house, a natural gas.. exclusively.
One of the problems of getting hitched to new technologies and energy sources is having a fallback if the energy source is gone.
It indeed does make you wonder how we got in this latest round of energy resource rich, domestic supply short.
How many agencies, how many companies, how many lobbyists, can we count on when it freezes and the gas runs low?
Apparently, few to any.