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Don’t California Georgia’s Energy
American Thinker ^ | 14 Oct, 2025 | Sloan Oliver

Posted on 10/14/2025 6:07:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Ask the average person who controls America’s energy policy, and the answer you’ll likely receive is “the federal government.” Federal bureaucrats would love that to be so because they could then force their green mandates, green energy scams, and one-size-fits-all edicts onto the fifty states. However, that’s not true. Under our federalist system, energy and environmental regulation, like most bureaucracies, are shared responsibilities between federal and state governments. The EPA and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission set national standards and oversee interstate programs. But states retain authority over their own power generation, energy resource planning, and power station permitting decisions.

SNIP

Georgia’s November 4th election could start us on the path to California insanity. While CA’s PUC members are appointed, in Georgia, our Public Service Commission (PSC) members are elected. The PSC is the Georgia agency that regulates telecommunications, electricity, and natural gas. It has five statewide elected commissioners who make decisions that affect every Georgian. Currently, all commissioners are Republican, but that could change. Two PSC seats are up for election. Commissioners are elected statewide, but must live in their district.

Dems want, and are fighting to take the PSC seats, so they can do to Georgia what they did to California. Think about what California’s PUC has done to that state’s utility companies, and realize that Dems would do the exact same should they ever gain control of Georgia’s PSC. Nuclear power plants would be shuttered, coal-fired plants (such as Plant Scherer in Monroe County) would be closed, all in favor of massive wind farms, and solar panels would gobble up thousands of acres of productive farmland.

The best way to prevent a similar California energy nightmare from happening, in Georgia, is to keep Dems off the PSC and keep Republicans in control.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

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1 posted on 10/14/2025 6:07:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

You voters in Georgia, please don’t forget the November 4th elections.


2 posted on 10/14/2025 6:09:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Energy Racketeering: The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) The origins and history of regulatory power as the resurgence of European mercantilism via tax-exempt foundations and environmental law. How the current system works using the example of NRDC machinations in the California energy market.
3 posted on 10/14/2025 6:30:53 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: MtnClimber

Isnt georgia going more and more liberal? Guess th3y want the po,icies, but none of the pain?


4 posted on 10/14/2025 6:30:58 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: MtnClimber
Under our federalist system, energy and environmental regulation, like most bureaucracies, are shared responsibilities between federal and state governments.

WRONG!!!!
Under our constitution any powers not specifically granted to the fed are reserved for the states and the people respectively.
I did not see the part where the power to regulate energy was specifically granted to the fed.....

5 posted on 10/14/2025 6:31:02 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO!! The end.)
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To: joe fonebone

>>I did not see the part where the power to regulate energy was specifically granted to the fed.....

You have to look in the shadow of the emanation of the penumbra of the Commerce Clause.


6 posted on 10/14/2025 7:00:36 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Bob434

I live in GA. Only metro Atlanta and the university cities are blue.

That said, GA power has dominion over their rate case here, not the PSC. That’s the reality. No one in the GA legislature will go against GA Power.

FYI, we have reasonable rates here and plenty of capacity for growth.

We’re good on electricity, honest.


7 posted on 10/14/2025 7:11:53 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hope you will enjoy paying ≈ $5.00+/gallon for gas - b/c that’s what we have in California as of today, Oct. 14th, 2025 - b/c of taxes, over regulation and onerous burdens placed on oil companies to the point where two large refineries - that produce 20% of our gas - are pulling out of the state.

Gas may spike to $8.00 gallon - Newsom tried to find a buyer for one of the refineries with no luck -and is now busy opening up the oil fields in Central California.

$8.00/gallon gas does not look good when you are running for POTUS and Newsom knows this - God Forbid he becomes president.

Vote these idiots out, Georgia, $5.00 - or soon possibly $8.00/gallon gas - will be your fate like it is ours.


8 posted on 10/14/2025 8:33:19 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Blueflag

Just wait until all.of those stupid Data Centers come online. Rate increases like you have never seen!


9 posted on 10/14/2025 8:44:32 AM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
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To: Bob434

Not more liberal, more control for a select few, granted to them by those that show up and vote. Less than 1% “Good” folks show up on off-year elections but 30%+ of dipshits show up.
Also, like here in the Savannah area good and dipshit alike will vote themselves
Sale’s Tax increase!


10 posted on 10/14/2025 8:48:14 AM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
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To: SavannahWonderer

Data Centers are commercial entities. Every system of electric rate regulation in every state divides the total population of customers into residential and business customers. Then it subdivides those into groups based on the similarity and characteristics of their use. Rate cases - administrative proceedings before the Public Service Commission seeking authority to offer particular rates to specific classes of customers - are evidentiary hearings that get into mind-numbing detail, all in an effort to allocate costs to the responsible classes. If service to data centers increases costs, the rate approval process will allocate the costs created by service to the data centers to the rate class occupied by data centers, not residential customers.


11 posted on 10/14/2025 9:03:10 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

And the Regulators and Utility pinky swear on that!
The Data Center folks have a voice and the Govenor’s diresct phone #, we do not.


12 posted on 10/14/2025 9:20:30 AM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
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To: SavannahWonderer

Don’t care where you live, we sure don’t want energy regulation like Calif. has. These places that are pushing “green energy” need to be run out of business as well, since we don’t want to find ourserselves freezing our backsides off in winter & inadequate power for A/C in the summer. The consumer should have at least as much say as the developers in these matters before we should find ourselves both broke & cold. Any developer/supplier should be able to guarantee needed energy at a fair price or get out of the business if they can’t. In the case of places like Calif. this may be a little tougher since many consumers seem to be desperate to move out of that state. That is a shame since Calif. (some several years ago)used to be a great state to live in. Of course, nobody had even heard of Newsom back in those days.


13 posted on 10/14/2025 10:25:59 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: MtnClimber

Electrical energy should probably be mainly supplied by conventional power stations as much as possible. “Green energy” could be supplied only in an emergency situation. Some states apparently do no not have natural gas & their particular situations need to be looked at a little differently. The main thing that must be considered is that all citizens should be able to afford whatever energy source that is available that will at least meet their minimum needs.. This is going to be different for different locations.


14 posted on 10/14/2025 10:39:32 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: MtnClimber

Headline misspelled ‘californicate’.


15 posted on 10/14/2025 1:09:23 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: MtnClimber

“The best way to prevent a similar California energy nightmare from happening, in Georgia, is to keep Dems off the PSC and keep Republicans in control. Don’t California our Georgia energy. On November 4th, vote for Tim Echols (Republican, District-2) and Fitz Johnson (Republican, District-3) for Georgia Public Services Commission and maintain sanity of Georgia’s energy policies.

Final Thought: Early voting for the election is underway and runs through Oct 31st. Too many things can happen on Election Day. Since early voting is the law, vote early”


16 posted on 10/14/2025 1:11:39 PM PDT by CFW
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