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Keep in mind that this causes power rates to go up too. Even if your official cents/kWh rate doesn't go up, the energy rider attached to it does. Remember the war on coal and many power companies having to shut down coal plants? This required them to demand more from their natural gas plants (and build new nat gas plants). Thus, your power bill is more joined at the hip with natural gas prices than ever before. My most recent power bill charged 14.3¢/kWh --- a 6.6% increase over the true rate they charged last August.

(Typed in my best Obama/Biden voice): If you like cheaply charging your EV you can keep doing it. End of quote. End of line.

Yesterday on my local Facebook page in southern NH people were whining about how much their most recent electric bill was.
People stated that their bill had gone from $300 to $600.
One person even stated they had a bill over $900. Generally, they had almost doubled.

This is the result of the utility Eversource asking the Public Utilities Commission of NH for a rate increase from $.11/KHW to $.22/KHW. The PUC approved this increase that went into effect August 1st.

These same Facebook whiners are the same people that were against the Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline that was proposed a couple years back. This would have routed through the town in question. It would have brought NG from PA to New England. It would have run about 3 miles south of my residence over an existing ROW where a 1’ diameter gas line currently runs. The proposed line would have been 3’ in diameter.

Again, these same people were against The Northern Pass. A proposed electrical transmission line that would have brought power from Quebec Hydro down through Northern NH. It would have needed a new ROW over the least populated section of the state of NH. In Plymouth, NH they were willing to bury the line instead of having it on towers.

So, now we all are going to pay more for electricity in NH because of Not In My Back Yard(NIMBY). This is the problem with LIBERALS. They do not understand reason and economics. Basic MATH/ECON is hard for them.