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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That would be productive and in the long run leave gubmint with less control.
Even more so, such production should be done immediately. There is a strong possibility of record breaking cold weather for at least the next decade. I’ve recommended to some friends up North that they invest in a “warm room” in their home— an interior room covered in insulation so they will at least have a warm place to sleep, even if the rest of their home is freezing and home heating oil is either scarce or prohibitively expensive.
This type of "government" control is DANGEROUS.
When can we expect them to limit red meat consumption to save the environment?
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WITH A DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED LOCAL GOVERNMENT THAT DOESN’T INVEST ANY MONEY BACK INTO NEW SOURCES OF ENERGY. IF YOU BUILD MORE POWER PLANTS YOU WOULDN”T HAVE THIS PROBLEM. ARE THEY BUILDING NEW POWER PLANTS? HELL NO AND THAT IS WHY YOUR GOING TO GET YOUR POWER CUT OFF. THEY DO THE SAME THING IN CALIFORNIA. ROLLING BLACKOUTS.
GET USE TO YOUR LIBERAL GOVERNMENT DOING THIS CAUSE ITS COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU. THE DEMOCRATS DON’T BELIEVE IN BUILDING MORE POWER PLANTS.
IF THEY WERE PROACTIVE AND DID SO THEN YOU WOULDNT COME CRAWLING TO THEM WITH YOUR HANDS OUT ASKING FOR HELP. ITS A SCAM TO MAKE YOU DEPENDENT ON THE GOVERNMENT.
WELCOME TO SOCIALISM.
YOU FELL ASLEEP AT THE VOTING BOOTH AND THIS IS WHAT YOU DESERVE!!!
STUPID IS WHAT STUPID DOES...
It will just be added in as a penalty to the electric bills. That is what California does and why my electric bill in the summer is $600.
Nah, EVIL BIG COAL, one of the state's remaining industries that needs to be brought to its knees in order to kill more jobs in PA and make the citizens poorer.
Easy enough. Just shut down the power to every government office from October to March. That ought to do it.
Do you have a link to a source for Aerogel insulation? Is it commercially available?
Google “aerogel insulation”, and yes. I’m really hoping this is one industry that takes off.
Sounds like a good idea. But, it will just give elected “leaders” an excuse to do even less while voting themselves a pay raise.
It has apparently been decided that we in the West will be impoverished.
Liberalism is a mental disorder. All this law will do is to ensure that the only people left in PA after a generation will be impoverished Obamao supporters and the tyrants who rule over them.
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