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What’s going on with electric power in the United States?
American Thinker ^ | 2 Jun, 2022 | Mac Madden

Posted on 06/02/2022 3:45:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Rolling blackouts are just part of the plan.

I keep hearing about possible blackouts in the Midwest coming this summer. Even Texas is expecting rolling blackouts. This is an energy state with abundant natural gas. I have seen blackouts due to storms and other issues but never a prediction of blackouts just because it is summer and hot. While I am aware there has been an effort to “go green” by implementing solar and wind generation, together they account for around 4% of generation That’s hardly a blip in the greater scheme of things. Coal has historically been the baseload power generator. It has been systematically dismantled over the past decade and this has resulted in a net decrease in total available power in many areas.

While natural gas has risen to supplant coal as the United State’s largest energy source for electricity, total energy has not increased in 10 years. Due to economic conditions and government regulations, coal plants have been shuttered at a rapid rate since 2010. In the period 1993 to 2009, retirements averaged .36 GW per year and totaled 6.2 GW. In 2020 and 2021 retirements averaged 7.9 GW per year and 95.2 GW in total. Over the next five years, planned retirements will total over 24 GW. All this has been supplanted in part by natural gas. Some facilities converted to gas,

SNIP

We have an increasing population. The southern part of the USA will require additional electricity for air conditioning every year. We have a push for electric vehicles that will require more electricity. At the same time, attacks on natural gas follow as coal becomes less of a target. The Left is executing their long-held agenda to put us back in the dark ages, and they may succeed this time.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; rationing
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1 posted on 06/02/2022 3:45:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Electricity, gas/diesel, food....Just expanding on what Ezekiel Emmanuel said about healthcare “it is too important for the government not to ration it”.


2 posted on 06/02/2022 3:46:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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It’s very depressing to see the Great Reset moving forward on all fronts.


3 posted on 06/02/2022 3:49:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Progressives want to demoralize people so that they are afraid to be ambitious.)
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To: MtnClimber

Eco nazis are killing us to save the planet.

They are an enemy to humanity.


4 posted on 06/02/2022 3:50:41 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: MtnClimber
Artificial shortages to give government an excuse to ration all our resources.
It's about Control.

5 posted on 06/02/2022 3:52:09 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
It’s very depressing to see the Great Reset moving forward on all fronts.

I agree and see it happening as well. However, in the US, the left is going to lose the midterms (especially if we have rolling blackouts this summer) and they risk losing 2024 without a significant event.

I wonder what event they have planned?

6 posted on 06/02/2022 3:54:17 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: MtnClimber

The Day the Electricity Died .... https://townhall.com/columnists/townhallcomstaff/2022/05/28/the-day-the-electricity-died-n2607923

Imagine one of your kids freezing to death in your home. Eleven-year-old Cristian Pineda’s mother found her son dead during the Texas blackout in February 2021.

Or you have a power outage for three days, losing a couple of hundred dollars worth of food because your refrigerator didn’t work, as Michelle Jones did last summer. The food she had just bought to feed herself, her daughter, and her granddaughter spoiled without electricity.

Is this what they want? More than likely. What about them. How will those that are pushing this survive? Do they have some secret stash? Do they have access to power that the rest of serfs do not? Oh wait, they have solar panels and wind turbines...for now.

And sadly, all across this country, foolish-greedy-inept-corrupt politicians are eager to jump on the green bandwagon. Just imagine what this country could be like if the RED STATES united and told CornPop and his crew to, ESAD. Of course, that would lead to more of a mass migration of hypocritical liberals to those states but they could be stopped at the border or denied any and all voting rights for 40 years and be forced to pay all the increases in property taxes that would be coming with them, while the locals get their taxes lowered...you wanna dance, you gotta pay the band.


7 posted on 06/02/2022 3:54:37 AM PDT by qaz123
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Only because we’re allowing it.


8 posted on 06/02/2022 3:55:11 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: MtnClimber
Sniffer!!! And, unelected deep staters.
9 posted on 06/02/2022 3:55:26 AM PDT by depressed in 06
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Coal has historically been the baseload power generator.

In East China (MI between St Clair and Marine City) there's a power plant that was built for coal and easily was supplied off the St Clair river. It switched to Natural Gas, what a waste of money.
10 posted on 06/02/2022 3:56:11 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: fruser1

Never forget that “global warming” was invented by the neo-malthusian Club of Rome as a tool to force a drastic reduction of human populations. see:Maurice Strong.


11 posted on 06/02/2022 3:56:47 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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It’s not rocket science.

They want us dead.


12 posted on 06/02/2022 3:57:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

All depends who they’re replaced with.

If all of the US Senate and House is filled with the likes of Cornyn, Thune, Lankford, Rubio, McCarthy, Scalise, Upton, Crenshaw, Cheney, Graham, Scott’s....I guess pretty much all of them, save about 8 or 9, between both bodies, then we’re in no better shape as they’re all just as bad.

They all just smile when they stab us in the back.


13 posted on 06/02/2022 3:57:49 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Erik Latranyi

Deep State has both RCV and RCV-enabled voting machines.

Deep State won’t need an event if still has those available to it.


14 posted on 06/02/2022 3:58:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: MtnClimber

Q: What did DemocRats do for lighting before candles?

A: Electricity!


15 posted on 06/02/2022 3:59:00 AM PDT by Does so (https//youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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Venezuelafication of America proceeds pertinaciously.


16 posted on 06/02/2022 4:00:08 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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So much could be solved by cranking up the oil and natural gas production.

17 posted on 06/02/2022 4:00:14 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Does so

Good one.


18 posted on 06/02/2022 4:02:36 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
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To: MtnClimber

Generator Interlock Kit to power your home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y26CBqpS2M0


19 posted on 06/02/2022 4:02:57 AM PDT by davetex (Location: The Alamo)
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Better still, smaller less complex nuclear units


20 posted on 06/02/2022 4:04:44 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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