[Dr. Sivana]

Yup, I remember in a pinch using our gas stove to heat the house when the power was out in Connecticut.

[stanne]

No idea what I’d have done today without gas stove oven and fireplace. No power for 10 hours in 18 degrees. 6 inches of icy snow all around all over the roads

No idea.

After ice storm of 1979 in LI I don’t ever have a house without a fireplace or gas oven. Unless I live on base

Even Here in Texas.

Electric everything. Nope.

[exnavy]

Some of us didn’t need thatto be convinced.

[OrangeHoof]

Actually, the Left wants all energy converted from solar, wind and hydroelectric. They want to eliminate fossil fuels altogether. That’s what the whole climate change hooey is all about - getting the world weaned off of oil and gas. Oddly, they demonize nuclear power which is both “clean” and renewable.

[Nateman]

Natural gas is an issue in earthquake prone area’s. Unless you have the special earthquake gas shut off value it often causes fires after the earthquake.

[Nateman]

As oil and coal run out , the price is going to rise and other sources will become competitive. It is an issue that will take care of itself. Of course the goal of the left is always power first, people last , so letting it take care of itself is the last thing they want .

[a fool in paradise]

Or

Don’t travel
Don’t produce
Don’t procreate

North Korea, Stalin, and African dictators can explain all about putting the screws to people.

[colorado tanker]

Robert Bryce is the host of the Power Hungry Podcast. An author and journalist, Bryce has been writing about energy, politics, and the environment for more than 30 years. He has published six books in which he has covered numerous topics including Enron’s bankruptcy, the rise of Texas, corn ethanol, digital drilling rigs, renewables, batteries, nuclear energy, and the future of the electric grid. He is a visiting fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. His articles have appeared in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Post, and Sydney Morning Herald. His latest book, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations, was published in March 2020. His new feature-length documentary, Juice: How Electricity Explains the World, is available on iTunes, Amazon Prime, and other streaming services. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Lorin, who is an art teacher, photographer, and master potter.

Give you 10-1 odds he voted for bite-me. And is a Trump hater. Get used to the cold dude. You’re going to get more of it. Or are you a climate change guy too? Then no worries right? Cold is warm!

[Oscar in Batangas]

Remember COVID19’s 2-3 weeks lockdown to ‘flatten the curve’??

I see an analogy to a few hours of rolling blackouts.
Panic had begun to set in after 45 minutes to one hour.

How easy it would be for the DeepState to implement a big ‘rolling blackout’ until say, you have all turned in your firearms to “flatten the curve” on shootings
... Just for a couple of months or so

It’s gonna get ugly before it gets beautiful again

[alexander_busek]

This Blizzard Exposes The Perils Of Attempting To ‘Electrify Everything’

But, but... As the Bolsheviks never tired of telling us back in the 1930s: Soviet Power + Electrification = Communism."

Regards,

[Organic Panic]

I live off grid. I have solar and propane. It was REALLY cold and dark so no PV power all week. The propane provided heat AND electricity via the propane generator. I would love to see a watermelon live this spartan. It all looks so easy from the comfort of their college offices. But of course rough living is having to fly commercial for these clowns.

[Jewbacca]

I’ve been pretty happy to have two wood fireplaces with gas lighters and a gas stove. Home would have been uninhabitable otherwise.

[fruser1]

Any gas company folks out there?

One thing I hear more of lately is frozen gas lines. The freezing can only occur from any water or some other chemical in the line or equipment as methane doesn’t freeze until about -250F.

It’s either just being reported more (meaning it had been occurring and I just hadn’t heard about it), old lines cracking and letting in air vapor (which has water in it), a new chemical with a higher freeze point, or new lines that are cheap and crack more easily (letting air in).

Believe me, I think solar and wind is a total waste. Nevertheless, frozen gas lines are contributing and I’m just wondering why this is occuring now. This is not the first cold snap in history.

[DEPcom]

I wonder how people are charging their electric cars during those blackouts.

[COBOL2Java]

Well, the California-to-Texas transplants will be used to lengthy blackouts...

[Vision]

The Left is crazy.

[cymbeline]

I must repeat myself. I’m in favor of global warming. A warmer planet will be more supportive of life and more comfortable for life.

Also, Gore’s book written a decade or so ago had a graph showing how increased plant activity resulting from warming lowers the amount of CO2 in the air. Thus, global warming is self-limiting.

We can help in the limiting effect by nurturing plant life on as much of the earth’s service as possible, especially in the warm climates where plant life is most vibrant.

[NetAddicted]

READ later.

[I want the USA back]

There is no way to power our industrialized society except by coal/gas/petroleum/nuclear power. Windmills and solar panels don’t actually help. Power plants have to be able to function during peak demand periods. Those periods are when windmills and solar panels don’t provide any power.

The real reason why they promote solar/wind is because they want to destroy the industrialized society that we have and return us to the dark ages.

[right way right]

We need to ‘deal’ with our politicians and academics.