Posted on 06/14/2024 5:52:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A new study by a state government has determined that the many new regulations of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could lead to power blackouts that will impact millions of American citizens.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the study, conducted in May, was carried out by the firm Always On Energy Research, on behalf of the state government of North Dakota. The report concluded that the EPA’s most recently-implemented regulations are not technologically feasible and will only lead to the forced retirement of coal power generation units. Coal and other more reliable forms of energy will be replaced by unreliable energy sources, such as wind and solar, which are heavily dependent upon seasons and the weather.
“The Finalized Rule will increase costs, which, compounded with inflation, will negatively impact the affordability of electric and gas services, resulting in a disproportionate effect on low-income citizens,” the study declares. “Given the high rural populations in North Dakota, pricing low-income citizens out of a reliable energy source creates an economic and social justice issue with devastating impacts on North Dakotans’ lives.”
These concerns have been voiced by other watchdog groups, regional grid operators, and power utility companies. A similar warning was issued recently by four regional grid operators responsible for the power infrastructure for over 154 million Americans, declaring that the EPA’s rules and regulations would reduce the grid’s reliability to “concerning levels.”
“Biden’s Green Agenda is shutting down baseload power and is rapidly destabilizing our electrical grid. Electricity costs are up 30% under Biden already,” said North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum (R-N.D.) in a statement. “Prices will continue to skyrocket if he’s re-elected as real power demand increases dramatically for the first time in decades, for chip manufacturing and new foundational industries like AI.”
Burgum, a former presidential candidate in 2024 and considered to be a top contender for former President Donald Trump’s running mate in the November election, also noted that the increasingly burdensome regulations will only lead to “higher prices AND less reliability.”
Among many others, the EPA’s new finalized regulations demand that coal plants in the United States cut their carbon footprint by 90% by the year 2032, which would ultimately force most plants to simply shut down within the next eight years. Emissions reductions are also demanded of natural gas-fueled power plants that operate for more than 20% of the time.
The climate cult has already caused people to die due to their insane policies. They belong in prison.
“Biden Administration’s EPA Rules Could Cause Blackouts for Millions of Americans”
Blackouts, smackouts, whatever. The thing to remember is that Trump is just so BRASH you’d have to be crazy to vote for him. I mean is losing electricity really a big deal when it means no more Tweets?
(time to put on your adult clothes, Trump-haters)
If the electrical grid is so fragile, how are all of us supposed to charge the electric cars were all supposed to acquire in the next few years?
You’re not. They want you living in urban hives dependent on government.
You were not supposed to look behind the curtain.
All part of the plan.
And thanks to smart meters, those in political favor don’t have to be included in any rolling blackout.
That’s why the meters had to be there first.
Progressive agenda at work.
No worries, this is all part of their plan.
If it had been a repub,ican plan, the ,eft would be going mental and accusing the rightof “intentionally degrading the quality of life in America znd he would be tried for treason agaisnt the nation and found unfit for service,
But, since it is a Democrat running the crap-show, there is no such scrutiny by the lame stream media lapdogs
Part of the deep state plan of perpetusl crisis and headlines to keep the people chasing flags like Dante’s Inferno.
And yet there are still millions of ignorants and leftist hacks who will vote for these Deep State destroyers.
Two months ago, the power company sent out a notice to expect outages.
Page 306 in the plan document.
Trump had better gut this rule.
"A new study by a state government has determined that the many new regulations of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
could lead to power blackouts that will impact millions of American citizens."
"According to the Washington Free Beacon, the study, conducted in May, was carried out by the firm Always On Energy Research, on behalf of the state government of North Dakota.
The report concluded that the EPA’s most recently-implemented regulations are not technologically feasible
and will only lead to the forced retirement of coal power generation units.
Coal and other more reliable forms of energy will be replaced by unreliable energy sources,
such as wind and solar, which are heavily dependent upon seasons and the weather."
“The Finalized Rule will increase costs, which, compounded with inflation, will negatively impact the affordability of electric and gas services,
resulting in a disproportionate effect on low-income citizens,” the study declares.
“Given the high rural populations in North Dakota, pricing low-income citizens out of a reliable energy source
creates an economic and social justice issue with devastating impacts on North Dakotans’ lives.”
"These concerns have been voiced by other watchdog groups, regional grid operators, and power utility companies.
A similar warning was issued recently by four regional grid operators responsible for the power infrastructure for over 154 million Americans,
declaring that the EPA’s rules and regulations would reduce the grid’s reliability to “concerning levels.”
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.
Blackouts are wealth redistribution opportunities for biden voters...
...and those fires? Just bringing light to the darkness!
see also Isaac Asimov's Nightfall
I don’t know how anyone these days can be in any form of the ‘energy’ business and not have gone insane!
Brandon is a dipstick.
‘The Finalized Rule’ is the current crop of Socialists’ idea of ‘The Final Solution.’
*SPIT*
For those lurking from Rio Linda*:
“The ‘final solution’ was the culmination of a state-sponsored campaign against Jewish citizens in German territory that began shortly after Adolf Hitler became chancellor on January 30, 1933. From that year until 1939, Hitler’s government used economic boycotts, discriminatory laws, and eventually violence to force the emigration of as many Jewish residents as possible, as well as to isolate those who could not or would not leave.”
*We miss you SO MUCH, Rush!
If the USA coal plants close, will China buy all that available coal for the many (many!) coal plants they have?
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