Fantastic news.
Bigger picture, I wish nobody was making electricity from natural gas. It is FAR FAR more valuable as a feedstock for petrochemical products, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and fertilizer. You can burn coal to make power (and use a little bit of gas for peaking). But you can’t use coal to make petrochemical products (at least without massive investment in the Fischer–Tropsch process to liquify coal).
The Germans ran their WW II war machine on coal liquefaction. Sasol in South Africa was formed in 1950 to liquify coal using Fischer-Tropsch that German chemists and engineers first developed in the early 1900s.
In a sane world, hydrocarbons would be stacked according to their highest value application:
1. Coal for power.
2. Petroleum for transportation.
3. Natural Gas for feedstocks.
How much of this purge will last if we get a Democrat in charge?
I want to salt the earth so it’s difficult to get it up and running.
The crazies forced two local coal-fired power plants closed,and my electric bill SKYROCKETED JUST AS OBAMA PROMISED!
It is now $40 monthly just for access to electricity which makes my modest usage actually cost $3+ daily for a few LED bulbs and non-continous use of a 700 watt electric heater.
Homestead wind and solar are beginning to look viable.
I’m sorry, but he can’t do that without the consent and permission of an Obama or Biden appointed Judge.
Bkmk
Another Laundry bites the dust.
It doesn't matter. To fix DOE you first need to clear out HR and the Office of Management which describes itself thusly:
The Office of Management (MA) delivers corporate support, leadership, and oversight at the Department of Energy for a wide range of management, procurement, and administrative functions. Key areas of responsibility include contract and financial assistance management; property; corporate policies and authorities; sustainability; and aviation. MA also ensures the smooth operation of the DOE Headquarters through essential administrative, facility, and employee services. Additionally, MA leaders fulfill the statutory duties of the Chief Acquisition Officer and serve as the Senior Procurement Executive, Senior Real Property Officer, Chief Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer, and Chief Sustainability Officer for the Department.
It is important to note that according to Grok over 90% of DOE's total budget ultimately supports or passes through to DOE-owned and -operated laboratories and facilities. In other words their is a huge procurement organization that procures very little of DOE's program effort, but piles on with almost worthless and very expensive contract terms that bloat the administrative costs of these DOE owned facilities.
And at the DOE a small fraction of personnel are technical experts in the areas to be overseen. Most are auditors, administrators, contract specialists, etc.
They are in the middle of installing the stupid solar panels and wind generators here in central TX. Hundreds of acres of farmland turned into useless area. Those solar panels will not last as long as promised and when the useless wind generators topple there will be no one to remove the concrete blocks weighing hundreds of tons each from the earth.
When the cash flow stops the lunatic ride will end.
Awsome!
Just imagine if our feckless, impotent GOP congress members had just 0.01% of this guy’s balls...