Posted on 10/16/2008 1:54:37 PM PDT by Crazieman
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania has begun a major effort to cut electricity use, requiring the state's 11 utilities to not only stop power usage from rising, but to cut it starting in 2011.
Legislation that Gov. Ed Rendell signed Wednesday requires the utilities to cut annual electricity usage by at least 1 percent by May 31, 2011, based on usage estimates made by state regulators, who can take into account a major anomaly, such as an unusually hot summer or a substantial surge in demand from a new user, such as a factory.
To ensure that utilities take the task seriously, the new law allows up to $20 million in penalties for failure to meet the benchmarks for electricity usage cuts.
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Translation: yet another tax increase
I intended to have Electricity Police in parenthesis. (Electricity Police)
Please edit. Thanks :)
Anyone want to bet the ACLU sues to stop electricity usage reduction in public housing?
Ah, politicians. Only a legislator-look thinks up such silliness. Why do we allow ourselves to be governed by folks who we would not hire for any real job?
Thanks Gov. Looks like more industry will be leaving your state and heading south to Texas. We have a lot of industries and jobs moving here from the nut belt states that is keeping the economy here just humming along thank you.
This isn't going to reduce electricity consumption. It's just going to result in millions of dollars in fines. It's a tax increase on electricity by another name.
The idiots are probably pushing plug in cars at the same time.
The reality is that they want to act like they are doing something about global warming, which is all about grabbing power, and they want to increase revenues, which is also about grabbing power.
They should start by cutting HVAC costs to state government offices and turning down the lights in the Governor’s office.
that will be easy 1% of PA resedents leave the state annually
that will be easy 1% of PA resedents leave the state annually
And the thousands of streetlights that waste 80% of the light they produce into space - Tuscon AZ should be a model for every city.
Dick Cheney must be behind this.
Dear comrade, after Zero gets in office, Electricty will be free and abundant.
How can utility companies guarantee less usage, short of turning off the power?
No problem, right after business and their associated workers start leaving the state, they should have no problem meeting the decrease.
Come to Texas, we have our own grid.
Keep ratcheting up the price, there will be less used.
They should start soon to get Hillary's henchman and their former Assistant AG, Mr. Philip J. Berg, Esq. his day in court to prevent a huge Constitutional crisis brewing before Nov 4!!!
It isn’t so hard. Rendell just has to stay the course with his idiot tax and spend policies and more people will move out of Pennsylvania. Fewer people = less electricity use. But it will also equal less taxes to finance his hare-brained schemes.
Whatcha bet they're buying stock in said appliances. Shooting fish in a barrel - decide on a product, take out stock, have it mandated by law - and voila.
They've already mandated what toilets we must have - regardless of whether you're on city water or, like me, live surrounded by bogs, have my own well and my water table is about spoon deep under the surface...not to mention a septic tank that operates better with the extra water.
The gov’t has NO RIGHT to mandate what we buy and put in our homes. They may, at times, need to ration water or power - but there should never be money to be made by anyone by mandating what you have to buy...and put in our home.
And one size does NOT fit all.
It's not about energy savings - it's about control.
I bet fast Eddy gets his.
Let’s cutoff power to every politician who voted for this monstrosity. This law portends the future: if HE (and his wise rat friends) decree, you shall make it happen. HE can control the wind, sun, and air. HE can clothe, feed, and care for us. HE can ensure our happiness and harmony. HE can deliver us from any evil.
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