Posted on 09/25/2024 6:44:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
For families struggling to make ends meet, Kamala Harris claims she has a plan to lower energy costs. What she will deliver is more pain. Just ask anyone paying energy bills in a state her party controls.
On Harris’ campaign website, she pays lip service to reducing energy costs, but then rattles off a long list of plans to tackle the “climate crisis.”
We already know you can’t have one with the other.
At a congressional hearing last week, members of the House Budget Committee heard from witnesses about how Biden-Harris policies have fueled today’s energy crisis. One of the witnesses, Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Heritage Foundation, presented lawmakers with a chart that deserves to be seen by anyone and everyone paying utility bills.
The chart ranks states based on the cost of electricity, as well as the cost of a gallon of gas.
Looking at the chart, you immediately notice something. Of the 16 states where electricity costs are higher than the national average, Republicans control only two. All the rest are either completely or partially run by Democrats.
Why are their energy bills so high? Well, all but two have imposed strict mandates for renewable energy – meaning that more than 15% of their electricity will have to come from “clean” sources by 2035. What’s more, all but six also want 100% of cars sold in the state to be EVs by 2035.
In other words, these Blue states are fully bought into the climate “crisis.”
(Republican-controlled Alaska is an outlier because it has its own unique energy challenges.)
Meanwhile, of the 10 states with the lowest electricity rates, only Washington is controlled by Democrats. It has a strict renewable standard, and an EV mandate. But as Furtchgott-Roth notes, Washington is also a special case because 60% of its energy comes from hydropower (a cheap and “clean” energy source that environmentalists hate because it requires damming rivers).
The difference in household utility bills between these Blue and Red states is stark, with Californians paying nearly three times what Louisianans do, for example.
And this is just the beginning. Wait until those costly renewable mandates – combined with the surge in electricity demand that will result from state EV mandates and the growth of artificial intelligence – are in full force. Then Blue-state electricity costs will be stratospheric.
Keep in mind, too, that higher energy prices impact everything you buy because energy costs affect every business, and those costs are always passed down to consumers. So the overall cost of living in Blue states is higher as a result.
At the same time, the chart above also shows that gasoline prices tend to be higher in these Blue states. Sometimes much, much higher. A gallon of gasoline in California costs $4.75, but only $3.18 in Florida. These price differences, too, are largely caused by taxes and regulations.
What are those ratepayers and drivers in Blue states getting for all those extra costs?
Nothing.
Politicians in these states pass laws pushed by radical environmentalists to make themselves feel good. The costs are paid for by working families already struggling to make ends meet. And the impact on the climate is … zero.
Even if every state in the nation went 100% renewable, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference to global temperatures, given that China and India are pumping out more CO2 each year than the U.S. could possibly ever cut.
The question Democrats need to answer is “Why do they hate their residents so much?”
But residents also need to ask themselves why they put up with such lunacy. Our guess is that most of them don’t know they’re being royally screwed.
The problem is that, no matter what Harris claims today, she desperately wants to make the entire country like those Blue states.
Which is another reason why every American should see (and share) the chart before they vote in November.
I think kickbacks from the “green energy” companies may be a reason why the democRATs are pushing for it so hard.
Sounds like Jamaican Green Bananas.
“...with Californians paying nearly three times what Louisianans do...”
Louisiana finally got electricity? ;)
Our electric bill has doubled since 2020. Along with our bill, we also get an extra letter each month, showing where and what we’ve spent electricity on and trying to SHAME us into using less and to quit being such an energy HOG. There’s no way they could have an exact breakdown of where we use electricity; we’re not on a ‘Smart MEter’ system of any kind.
I sent it back to them with a note saying; ‘I pay my inflated bill for electricity in full each month. Stuff it! I’ll use what I want.’
They’re still sending them out. “We’re the Electric Company. We don’t care. We don’t have to.” (H/T Lily Tomlin)
“For families struggling to make ends meet, Kamala Harris claims she has a plan to lower energy costs”
By eliminating fracking?
AI and EVs are creating immense power demand.
Something must change and Nukes can't come on line fast enough.
Thus, Bill Gates rush for population control....mass suicide....war....
Haven’t been shown that there IS any “climate crisis”. The climate is beyond our control & it shouldn’t take a genius to figure that out. Might as well try to come up with a scheme to reduce the temperature of the sun. If it could be done, one had better stop & think what the backlash from that would be.
Haven’t been shown that there IS any “climate crisis”. The climate is beyond our control & it shouldn’t take a genius to figure that out. Might as well try to come up with a scheme to reduce the temperature of the sun. If it could be done, one had better stop & think what the backlash from that would be.
“AI & EVs are creating immense power demand” Well, guess what? Does anybody know a real good reason why we need either one of those? It seems to me like someone creates these things knowing they will create a big problem, but they have a really good answer for that problem. Of course their answer creates a really big problem for the average citizen. The average citizen, I think, is sick & tired of this crap.
People must keep something in mind in regards to that chart on energy & gas prices. It doesn’t tell the whole story. In my state the prices given don’t tell the whole story & the “average” prices shown are not necessarily a true average. Our electrical rates are on a sliding scale & the rate shown probably doesn’t equal the actual “per KWH” rate you are paying. The gas price will depend on exactly where you live. The heavy users may get a cheaper rate. The low end users will possibly (likely) pay more than the rate shown on the chart.
In some parts of NH, gas is down to $2.89.
Mostly it’s around $3.
I expected prices to drop as the election draws nearer so democrats can claim they did it, counting on people forgetting who caused it to go up in the first place.
Democrats can claim they did it.
Yes and if Hag Harris wins they will make up the price loss in one a month.
My cost for virtue signalling is high and getting higher — even though I signal not.
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