Posted on 07/25/2023 5:39:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The old joke in which one fellow asks what the socialists used for lighting before candles and the other fellow answers “electricity” could use some updating. Substitute “socialists” for “U.S. Democrats.” But it won’t be just the Democrats using candles, it’s going to be all of us.
When the power goes out, most of us just have to wait until it’s restored to get back to our normal lives. In the meantime, as we wander through a dark house flipping useless switches out of habit, we make sure we don’t open the refrigerator and we put off anything we had planned that requires us to burn electricity. The more-prepared among us, though, buy fossil-fuel-powered generators to avoid interruptions
Their future, though, is in doubt. The Biden administration wants those generators to go the way of the incandescent light bulb.
“Just months after a Biden-appointed regulator teased a ban on gas stoves, the administration is working to enact a rule that would prohibit the manufacturing of nearly all portable gas generators on the U.S. market,” the Washington Free Beacon reported earlier this week.
This proposed rule would limit the amount of carbon monoxide a product can release, establishing a benchmark beyond the reach of all but a few current generators. The Free Beacon says the Consumer Product Safety Commission admits “that 95% of portable gas generators on the market cannot comply with its new standard.”
Should the rule become “law,” industry officials expect a shortage of generators will follow, as manufacturers would have only have six months to develop a compliant design. Under normal conditions, that would take years, according to the Portable Generator Manufacturers’ Association.
While some homeowners use standby generators, which have more permanence about them, to provide power when the lights go out, portables are used as well, with “far more people” choosing them because of price. What the cost-conscious consumers didn’t know when they made their purchases is that one day they would be punished for their choice. But those who have standby generators shouldn’t feel too smug. The Democrats will eventually come after those, too.
But the globalists are pushing electric everything in a way that unnecessarily hurts people instead of just letting it develop (as it already was). Meanwhile they are using the climate change narrative to sabotage the electrical infrastructure.
Think about it. Why should anyone trust a cabal of mass murderers who hate them to be stewards of the environment?
The distribution transformers should have the red palastic insulator covering the connection between the incoming line and the transformer.
That done, neither squirrel nor hawk can short the transformer out.
A propane or natgas generator is what I have.
Some of you may remember the days when AT&T literally OWNED the telephone lines and telephone equipment in your house, and you leased them. Furthermore, it was against FEDERAL LAW for you to tamper with them (not sure of the statue of limitations, so no personal comments here for me). If you didn’t like the rules, you might as well string a can to your neighbors, as that was all you could do.
So I gave some thought as to how ‘they’ will take control of you air conditioner so that ‘they’ can shut it off remotely for a few hours or days when, for example, when the sun don’t shine, or the wind don’t blow, or much longer, such as after a major volcanic eruption somewhere in the world that results in a dimming of the skies and thus obviously much lower solar production, but also lower wind production.
I concluded that ‘they’ will use the AT&T model and they will OWN YOUR (Smart) THERMOSTAT and the wiring to your furnace, and if you mess with it, people will show up at your door...and ‘they’ will know you messed with it because your “Smart Meter” will have ratted you out by measuring the power surge of your AC turning on, and then the power while staying on, when not authorized.
Likewise, of course, similar systems will be used for other stuff, like appliances, etc.
...and you will be ‘happy’.
Animal protection guards are standard for new installations and replacements.
Our industry is so undermanned it’s crazy. I have work beyond my death, and I’m in my 40’s.
Every goal stated with respect to the grid is a complete lie.
They know it, but by the time they’re wrong, they’ll be in a new position or retired.
Massive lies all.
Not of the SHTF mindset, I see.
Whatcha gonna do, call the utility when that goes down, or secure your own isolated grid?
Stupid people will Darwin regardless my advice on readily available tools.
I don’t think I ever saw that movie.
Magnifying glass.
If the SHTF, closing in your XFMR’s cutout will do nothing.
Naught plus naught equals naught.
You’d be better off with a generator, weapons, and bleach for river water.
It’s one of the funniest movie scenes ever, IMHO.
I don’t want to spoil it if you’ve never seen it.
Thr lame stream media is already prepping their sheeple readers to accept co stant rolling blackouts because even those shmucks know ehat is coming
As usual with the Marxist left, it’s a self-induced failure. Force states, via big Government regulations, to rely on wind turbines and on solar panels for even half of the population’s energy needs, and of course you’re going to have blackouts. It ain’t supposed to be rocket science... yet apparently it is to their useful idiot minions.
Let’s face it. The ghouls at the top that are driving these “fundamental transformations” know damned well that what they’re forcing upon us, whom they consider the peons and their subjects, will never work. It’s not intended to “work”. It’s all deliberately designed to fail.
The elitist leftists’ intentions are pretty clear by now. Their agenda has been revealed. They want us dead, or at least most of us, so they’ll be ensured of having enough of earth’s resources for them and their families. We’re just in the way of that. Our very existence interferes with their plan. With the technology of robotics, much of the manual labor relied on in the past will be deemed unnecessary. That means less need for human workers and less need for “useless consumers of resources”.
Another reason ‘why’ the radical left in power and control always equates to millions more homeless and dependents on government for existence is quite deliberate. When big Government finally cuts off all those dependents, it will be a clean sweep “depopulation” success. Millions die from starvation (sound familiar?). And when the desperate, starving dependents clash with those that did prepare for the worst and that are armed, another depopulation success.... as millions of survivalists will be “culled”. And then big Government can swoop in and clean up the resultant mess from all the chaos that big Government created.
It’s coming. It’s just a matter of “when” (not “if”).
NOT for economics and certainly NOTHING to do with 'climate change'!
Dumb question, but aren’t these municipal property?
A good percentage of distribution are on private property, but with easement rights.
It’s not a dumb question.
Are you thinking about substation transformers?
Right. A generator with a finite supply of fuel and bottles of what will ultimately become saline water.
Haven’t thought this through, huh?
Are we done with this intellectual challenge?(ahem...overstating it for effect)
You’re a babbling simpleton. What makes you think the distribution system will remain on in an actual SHTF scenario?
Violent people that band together will acquire people’s resources if things completely broke down.
Egotistical douchebags like you would be taken care of.
Cooperative relationships are important.
Online incels aren’t important.
Easy ‘fix’, don’t sell ‘generators’. Instead, sell the engine, the alternator, the frame(s), the....separately. Like 80% receivers/frames
Unless you have a particular reason including price, I would suggest you consider propane as a fuel source. We have a 500 gal tank dedicated to our Generac and a gas stove, and we usually have it topped off for a couple of hundred dollars once a year. And we are up in the Smokey Mountains with frequent outages that can last up to a week at times. Just sayin, it works for us.
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