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Posted on 04/12/2019 7:25:26 PM PDT by george76
Representative K.C. Becker and Senator Faith Winter have introduced legislation that would give Xcel Energy a green light and blank check to prematurely close existing power plants, replace them with expensive, intermittent resources, and then force captive electric ratepayers to pick up the tab with interest for the massive fuel switching scheme and workforce transition plans.
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Colorado Energy Plan (CEP) .. The monopoly utility is more than willing to build and build and build so it can fuel switch to utility-scale wind, solar, and batteries (which don’t really exist yet) at the expense of Colorado ratepayers.
Instead of saving ratepayers money, the Coalition proved that the CEP will cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. Further, we found Xcel’s modeling errors, which PUC staff did not.
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this bill should only be viewed as another avenue the Democrats are willing to travel in their attempt to reorder society through legislation.
Make no mistake; this bill will impact all Colorado residents – especially the state’s lower-income communities and those with static incomes, who in many cases are the elderly. In fact, AARP is against HB19-1313 because the organization understands an unnecessary increase in energy rates only harms its members and takes away their ability to spend money on necessary, more important matters.
If HB19-1313 passes, customers who cannot choose their electricity provider will pay for worker re-training programs and compliance costs, which will include building new generation capacity, storage capacity, and any new transmission and distribution lines.
This won’t be cheap. Utility bills will go up. Captive Xcel Energy customers are searching for a friend at the state capitol because it isn’t Speaker Becker or Senator Winter. We can’t afford to let the legislature give the monopoly a blank check.
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Well, there’s the trouble.
People in the States have no idea what unreliable electrical grids are like. When it rains hard, and for a length of time the electric poles that are in the middle of a rice field, (rotting from being constantly in water), will topple over. Then the power is out for hours while they replace the pole. Fortunately lately they have been using metal or concrete polls for a replacement.
Too many Americans are like spoiled brats and have no clue how fortunate they still are.
Yep. They screw up one place and don’t like it any longer so they move on and repeat the process. And they can’t figure it out.
If only the Left would suffer for their actions it would be fine. Unfortunately, we all suffer.
Back to horse & buggy.
I messed around with wood gas years ago, was going to see if I could run an old Farmall with it. Seeing what it did to my mild steel barrels, I decided I didn’t want to run it through an engine.
Banned? New homes are not allowed to have wood fireplaces.
Enough Colorado voters wanted what these Leftists are selling to vote for a hardcore Leftist for governor, and gave the Dims the majorities that now run amock in our House and Senate...
I hope the voters who put this gang in office get all they deserve, good and hard...The rest of us (those who stay; where would we go?) will just be along for the (downhill) ride...
And then all these promoters formed a new group called Killing Off Coloradans (through hypothermia, disease and starvation, due to a lack of convenient energy).
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The masses are apathetic, and the leftists are dedicated and have the media in their pockets.
This is retardation of epic proportions.
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