Posted on 09/06/2019 11:02:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Seattle Times reports that Seattle's city council is considering legislation which would ban all new homes and buildings within city limits from using natural gas, and mandating that these edifices must use electric heating and cooking.
Councilmember Mike OBrien will likely introduce the legislation next week. If passed, it is expected that the regulations will go in effect next summer.
"We know that some people rely on natural gas at home and on the natural-gas industry for jobs, so we want to be thoughtful about how we transition," O'Brien said. "But in the meantime, lets not continue to make the problem worse."
Peggi Lewis Fu, executive director of the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Associations Washington state chapter, slammed the potential proposal.
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They have plenty of dams and hydropower in the region, but it’s never wise to put all one’s eggs in one basket.
They want the dams torn down............m
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Heh, probably so...
Is Seattle a very Damp place ?
I seem to recall that berzerklee just recently did that.
It’s a very Dumb place...........!.........
Yes......mm
You say asinine, I say seattle. Score card please.
Natural gas power plants.
Electricity IS Coal.
About 12 years ago we had almost 100% of the Puget Sound area without power for weeks on end because of a snowstorm and downed lines (with serious accessibility problems from down trees. Ex #2 worked for Puget Sound Energy and she was away from home for 2 weeks straight on storm duty. This is so “cart before the horse” it is not even funny. All lines, including Distribution, need to go underground to make this viable. Postscript on that storm, I lived remote and had a 250 gal propane tank along w a 15kW generator, so I was fine.
We are headed to energy wars. By what the a-hole left has come up with,there is no energy but wind and solar.
Two “reasons”:
1. Leftists hate fracking
2. Leftists want to force you to buy into their $green$ deal
These people are insane. In New York City a new apartment building was just completed with no natural gas. The builder had to make it that way for the city to permit the construction. I’m sure there are others beyond the one I know about. The Eco terrorists are running the show. They think electric is magic and natural gas is evil. Completely nuts.
Hydro is overwhelming largest source. Natural gas barely registers (see note 2). So this is a big virtue signal action.
Natural gas service is available however...so the ones using gas for home heating, cooking, commercial operations and the like are the ones getting screwed ...
About 12 years ago we had almost 100% of the Puget Sound area without power for weeks on end because of a snowstorm and downed lines (with serious accessibility problems from down trees. Ex #2 worked for Puget Sound Energy and she was away from home for 2 weeks straight on storm duty. This is so “cart before the horse” it is not even funny. All lines, including Distribution, need to go underground to make this viable. Postscript on that storm, I lived remote and had a 250 gal propane tank along w a 15kW generator, so I was fine.
Washington has many beautiful and unusual places. Unfortunately for residents a deadly liberal fungus is going to destroy the whole state in a very short time.
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