Posted on 09/06/2013 6:53:43 PM PDT by neverdem
Coming to a United States of America near you, courtesy of the ObamaBot Flat Earth Society
Resistance is not futile. But you have to actually resist.
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Should be required reading......
The article makes no mention of just what they are now, but in 2010 they were 30 cents per KWH. Add in the rate increases and it goes over $0.36 per KWH.
We pay $0.117 in rural CO, an outrageous price already.
Without the environazis ( and there are a few Freeper enviro-nazis too, you know who you are) it would be half, or about 5 cents per KWH.
Germany's rates, 3x ours, is where the environazi's (including the Freepers aforementioned) are taking all of us.
Mentally, triple your electric bill, see where that gets you.
Very sobering quote. More so because succeeding generations seem to have learned little from this. Or in the case of Americans, nothing.
Thanks for posting it again.
While it hurst individuals, many people don't see it as an undue burden because they can pay the bills. But there are whole classes of industries that are very energy dependent, and cannot move into an area with high energy prices. The jobs go elsewhere. Even industries like data centers are extremely rate dependent.
Of course its coming here.
Obama made that clear way back in 2008.
Why don’t the voters turn these wind/solar power whacko politicians out?? You know, why don’t they vote with their.....vote?
I love your quote.
But anyway...
“For instance, you can reduce brightness and contrast,” his booklet suggests.”
Liberal technocrats are the same worldwide - they should not be allowed to become involved with anything more “technical” than a paper clip. This statement is almost fantastically stupid.
Generally, utilities give businesses, particularly large ones, better rates than homeowners. Germany, at this point probably being more industrial than the US, couldn’t survive at the rates shown. I wonder what the disparity is between business rates and homeowner rates there as opposed to here.
left-wing quotes usually are...
welfare is good for the economy - Pelosi
and what was that gem from DWS the other day??
Recently saw a picture of a German wind farm with 30 plus or minus wind turbines within sight of a nuclear plant. It made me wonder if the turbines were there to replace the nuclear plant or if the plant was maintained in order to have power after the turbines failed? Cost efficiency be damned, we go forward with the green agenda, but not without other sacrifices in our lives.
thanks for the details. Incredibly stupid of Germany to shut down their nukes.
Yes, I didn't even bring nuclear into my equations.
Pure, safe nuclear, without enviro-nazis interference, would be well under $0.04, 10% of what Germany is going to be paying, 1/3 of what we pay now.
What was that movie, "The China Syndrome"? Few people realize that they are still paying for that movie every month in the form of higher electric bills.
I guess we should be thankful, 20,000,000 people have already been required to pay for the book, The Silent Spring by Rachel Carlson, with their lives.
Unfortunately, it’s already here. In the Chicago area, we have the first certified passive house. It’s a building that’s 10 times more airtight than code. It uses a ductless heat pump system and an energy recovery ventilation unit that brings in outside air turning over the volume of the house every three hours. In addition, it has a solar water heater and a five kilowatt-per-hour photovoltaic array.
The problem with the description above is that it doesn’t mention the exact indoor temperature especially on a warm July day. Also, a heat pump in the Chicago area seems insufficient for those really cold Chicago winter days. The architect, Brandon Weiss, who worked in Germany, has really sold a lot of folks on this nonsense. But what do I know? I’m just a local architect and contractor.
Local governments have really jumped on the bandwagon. Cook County now requires the recycling of at least 70% construction waste.
I’ve lived in Germany off and on for twenty years....so I can tell this story in a simplified way.
In the 1970s...along came the Greens and the environmentalists. In the beginning...they rarely got any platform space in newspapers, magazines, or TV journalism. By the 1990s, that had changed and they used their platforms to hustle and scare folks.
There aren’t alot of nuclear power plants in Germany. None have been built since the 1980s, and the current plan....enthusiastically rejoiced by the bulk of the public after the Japanese disaster...will shut down within the next fifteen years.
In the weeks after Japan’s episode, they milked the system as much as they could....convincing everyone of the terrible nature of nuke power. The conservative party backed itself into the corner and just said they’d make it the national agenda.
Power companies over the past decade in Germany have looked at the future. It’s screwed up. Between regulation, lack of nuke power, and confusing politics....there’s only one answer. Dump as much electrical power ability within Germany, and move out to border states. They are helping to make wind and solar power for the moment look great. Course, locals are now a bit hostile over the ever-growing windmill situation. You drive from Kaiserslautern to Mainz, and there’s around three hundred of these windmills across the countryside.
The gut feeling by 2030? As the nuke plants shut down, and more power has to be bought from outside sources....the prices will double within a short period of time (maybe less than five years). The power companies will have guessed right, and France, Poland, and Czech will benefit from taxing the power that is sold to the Germans. Everyone benefits...except the Germans. But they will be happy not to have dangerous nuke power....like those Japanese guys.
How will you afford $400 a month for electrical? (without AC, mind you). That’s the curious question in the end. I think the candle market will take off, and guys will be on street corners in the afternoons....selling two or three candles to make it through the evening. Silly, but it’s the way of “saving” their precious land.
The difference is: in Germany, the enviro-nazis are actual Nazis.
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