Posted on 02/23/2011 6:05:44 PM PST by nhwingut
The New Hampshire House of Representatives today voted overwhelmingly — 246 to 104 — for New Hampshire to become the first state to repeal an up-and-running global warming cap-and-trade energy tax system. The state senate is expected to follow suit with a similarly veto-proof repeal. The move has major implications both in the region and nationally.
Since 2008, New Hampshire has been one of the 10 members of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a power plant-only cap-and-trade system that holds quarterly auctions requiring electric utilities to buy carbon dioxide permits. The cost of those permits is buried in the rate base and passed on to customers in the form of higher electricity prices. The tab is $28.2 million so far and rising — the state budget estimate for the next year jumped to $70 million in hidden energy taxes under the RGGI cap-and-trade program. Moreover, the program has become a honey pot for corrupt special interest giveaways to corporations, as a recent report from Grant Bosse of the Josiah Bartlett Center showed.
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Burn wood.
My house is remote enough that the cost of trucking wood out to it would be barbaric. There are no trees anywhere nearby.
I looked into the option of a wood pellet stove to supplement the propane heat, but the damn stove and hook up was about as expensive as the furnace for the house.
What I would like to do when I have the money is install a geothermal heat pump. That way I would be able to both heat and cool the house economically on electricity.
Although I actually know eastern Colorado is on the plains,and have visited there several times, I was visualizing Aspen trees, Ponderosa pine and plenty of wood. I was thinking Rocky Mountain High.
My afterthought was that for $700 you could probably hire two Mexicans to cut up enough wood for the winter.
Understandable. That’s the part of the state that gets all the publicity. It’s also the expensive land. Much of the state (the eastern part like you say), pretty much looks like Kansas. I have 60 acres of high plains. It’s buffalo grass, some cactus and not much else.
However it does make a nice shooting range.
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