Posted on 07/02/2014 4:36:24 AM PDT by thackney
"We would prefer the magic market-based solution," said Nicholas Ucci of the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources, "but that solution has not come forward."Nonsense. The magic market-based forces are always at work. If there is not enough capacity, it is because there is not enough profit to overcome the regulatory hurdles.
No?
Well, bye!
Only to liberals - higher taxes will lead to lower energy costs.
Let them freeze in the dark...
They should go out and Hug-A-Tree!
to overcome the regulatory hurdles
BTTT
and the real reason some areas are far more expensive than others...
I see lawn signs everywhere rejecting gas pipeline development.
Rational people have no problem with gas pipeline developmnet, buyt the moonbats are anti-engergy and NIMBY fanatics, and they are the prevailing political force.
We live there and my wife depends upon an oxygen machine. If power goes out I’ve got a generator but that’s only good for a couple of days.
Raise the rates, lower the demand. How’s that for a “magic market solution”?
No natural gas should flow to NeoEuropa....... let the yankees freeze, in the dark
That is the logical recourse for hating energy, hating America
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It is a situation that energy experts for the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island called untenable — particularly economically. Electricity production causes carbon dioxide production except in nuclear and hydro. There isnn't enough hydo and nuc to produce the electricity that the government loving freedom hating populations of the northeast want. WELL let them live in the dark and freeze. They want to "curb greenhouse gasses" for the non existant threat of "global (globull) warming" Well here's their chance to do their part. F*** 'em Let them hug their picture of 0 and the first wookie to keep warm.
ya can’t pay for infrastructure when you are giving leaches cradle to grave welfare.
Who needs good roads when you can use the road money to bribe voters?
The current exercise is not about money, it is about talking about money.
In the last two days, two letters to the editor about something in Jacksonville have contained the following phraseology like: this was not the way we did it back north.
My comment, if it was so good there, why did you leave?
A minor nit to pick. Some of the cost is due to location, geography, etc. Construction and transportation are affected by distance and terrain. But the market size and terrain, even in northern parts of New England, aren't the reason for lack of capacity. Heck, there is plenty of Canada (hydro) power coming in; oil pipelines from the New England coast to inland Canada (so pipeline construction is economically feasible); and enough population and population density to justify new construction - except for the hurdles of regulation and related pre-construction lawsuit.
More to the point “get the hell out”
I’ve got a gasoline generator, but the next time I need to buy one for backup power, it will be a tri-fuel. (gasoline, propane, natural gas)
Agreed, but will you agree most of the difference in cost between similar geography are the burdens put in place by the people?
No sympathy here for them. They regulate, tax and litigate most any attempt to bring new energy to their own back yards, all the while demanding the lowest possible prices possible.
Frankly? Screw them. After all, they won’t freeze in the winter now - all that global warming will heat them right up.
Move.
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