Posted on 04/25/2023 6:37:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
While campaigning in 2019, Joe Biden guaranteed “we’re going to end fossil fuels.” What he didn’t say is that eliminating fossil fuels will create a troublesome scarcity of electricity. He also didn’t say that was part of the plan, even though it just might be.
Now with the power of the presidency behind him – again we ask, how could such a disastrous event happen? – Biden is just a few pages of paperwork away from forcing natural gas- and coal-fired power plants to sharply cut their greenhouse emissions. If the emission caps can’t be met, power plants will then have to adopt carbon capture technology, which is quite expensive.
Our friends at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity had an interesting response to the news.
“Ben Franklin,” they said, “is often heralded as the man who discovered the power of electricity. Joe Biden wants to be the president who abolished it.”
Output cuts that will be required under the proposed regime “are so stringent,” says the CTUP, that “fossil fuel plants – which supply around 65% of America’s power – would be technologically incapable of complying.” The only way they will be able to stay open and generating power is if Americans’ utility bills are raised “dramatically.” If not, they close, and the power they produce is gone.
The administration knows this. The administration doesn’t care. The administration, driven by the hard-left zealots that run the Democratic Party, wants the rest of us to make do with less.
It’s the much same in California, where progressive politicians are committed to an unachievable target: As 2045 expires, all retail electricity sold in the state and used in government buildings must be produced by renewable resources, which are effectively limited to solar and wind.
Actually, the objective can be met. But there won’t be enough electricity to meet demand because the natural gas and nuclear power that’s taken off line won’t be fully replaced, so California is looking at a future of blackouts, rationing and rates more punishing than they already are. Either policymakers are aware of this and it doesn’t bother them, or they are completely inept and incapable of critical thinking.
We are naturally reminded of Ida Auken, the Social Democrat member of the Danish parliament, who in a World Economic Forum essay insisted that in the future we will own nothing and be happy. The headline – “Welcome to 2030: I own nothing, have no privacy and life has never been better” – made it clear that some powerful people are trying to turn the world into a commune which they of course will run.....
Our future looks bright. In a world where words mean the opposite of what they used to mean.
Picture California with no electricity this summer...........................
Ben Franklin did not discover electricity, though is experiments are worthy of honor.
Unfortunately, they're right about Brandon. He may not want to truly abolish electricity, but he intends to make it so expensive and so scarce that it'll hardly be used by those of us not part of the government's inner circle.
Picture a state like Mississippi without electricity and no A/C.
I was rasied in MISSISSIPPI! No A/C and no indoor plumbing!.................
I guess you get “used to it”.
If you don’t know any other way of life exists, then that is your reality...................
The largest coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania will be shut down in June. What replaces the electricity it produced? Windmills? Solar panels?
Western Pennsylvania, where the plant is located, has mostly cloudy days, sometimes an entire month in fall and winter will be totally clouded over. The windmills on the ridges are eyesores and they are killing thousands of birds. As I understand it, the wind turbines have to be shut down when the wind is too strong. When there’s no wind, the damn things don’t work at all.
Prepare for electricity blackouts in winter and summer, Pennsylvania, and all of the states that relied on this coal-fired generating station for electricity. Meanwhile, the Chinese are building one coal plant after another.
And Idiot Biden thinks he should get a second term to finish the job. When will people wake up?
Class warfare disguised as something, anything else.
“The main one is the Varreux terminal, which accounts for about 70 per cent of Haiti’s imports. Fuel arrives there by tanker ship and is typically held in one of about 20 large storage tanks operated by WINECO, the West Indies Energy Co., for distribution by truck.
“But those trucks have been unable to come and go since Sept. 12, due to a blockade imposed by the “G9” alliance of criminal gangs.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fuel-oil-haiti-gangs-1.6619551
“Only about 12 per cent of rural households have electricity at home. For many of them, kerosene is the main fuel and the only source of light after the sun goes down.”
“Without that fuel, Haiti’s grid shuts down. So do the trucks that deliver food to supermarkets, the generators that refrigerate that food during the frequent power outages, and the factories and businesses that pay the wages that buy the food.
“That is why Haiti’s fuel crisis is now fast turning into a famine.”
I do have a generator coming
BUT it requires gasoline and you only get a few hours out of it
Maybe when I can buy that RV - hahaha just kidding
Joe Biden doesn’t know what day it is. The circle of crows around him aren’t smart enough to pull off a water balloon bomb. They aren’t going to destroy the country or take our guns or force us on to Fed Coin or anything else. The monetary and banking system we currently have has got to be replaced so Biden and the Deep state are going to take the fall for the end of the old system.
Things will be changing radically in the very near future but for the better not the worse.
Things should get interesting in the Democratic NE & Midwest.
The states there won’t get enough sunshine in winter and Canada will not export hydroelectricity in order to go ‘green’ itself.
If politicians ruin our lives, I say we ruin theirs.
They don’t seem to get that whole “consent of the governed” part.
Sounds just like my childhood.
I hated ‘washdays’
The cast iron pot was located a good hundred feet (or so it seemed to me!) from the house where we had rain barrels to catch the water off the tin roof for washing clothes.... on a washboard!.....then hung on the line, nowadays called a ‘Solar Clothes dryer! LOL!................
2035
AOC: Where’s my electricity?
Con Ed: It gets pilfered off before it could get to your place. Would you like to participate in our home solar panel program?
AOC: We’ve had the panels ripped off our building twice before. The crooks wait until dark and off they come. They then get exported to Mexico.
The one in Niceville? ..................
TThe one in Florida.
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