Shut it down. Shut all of these down now or I'll have your job!
Posted on 11/19/2019 6:39:24 AM PST by karpov
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a proud opponent of fossil fuels. But now that the consequences of his policies are harming people in the real world—those who can’t afford to escape to Florida—the Governor is blaming others.
Mr. Cuomo has blocked shale fracking upstate and several pipelines delivering natural gas from Pennsylvania in the name of protecting waterways. But this is an excuse. Natural-gas production in Pennsylvania has increased 60% since Mr. Cuomo banned fracking five years ago, adding $6 billion to Keystone State GDP and its waterways are fine.
Mr. Cuomo’s real purpose is to eliminate natural gas as part of his political commitment to “carbon neutrality” by 2050, and this isn’t a cost-free promise. Upstate New Yorkers struggle economically and pay among the highest energy costs in the U.S. A quarter still rely on heating oil, which costs about $1,000 a year more than natural gas and emits nearly 40% more CO2. New Yorkers pay about 40% more for electricity than Pennsylvanians and 15% more than in New Jersey.
The utility Con Edison in March halted natural gas hookups north of New York City due to pipeline constraints. National Grid, the gas utility that serves Long Island, this fall imposed a moratorium on new hookups after the Governor vetoed a 23-mile gas pipeline beneath New York Harbor. National Grid said it couldn’t guarantee uninterrupted service without the pipeline. New oil-to-gas conversions could cause future gas shortages and outages.
The Governor’s response: Who cares? “The ‘moratorium’ is either a fabricated device or a lack of competence,” the Governor wrote to National Grid last week. Mr. Cuomo ordered the utility to explore “short-term options” to increase supply such as transporting natural gas by tanker or truck. “Other infrastructure could be proposed or additional unloading facilities installed,” he said.
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-——those who can’t afford to escape to Florida-——
Well, if they can’t afford to escape to Florida
Let them escape to Tennessee
Cuomo has already said he doesn’t want Christians, conservatives or pro-lifers in New York. If he gets away with all this, someday in the near future, Rhode Island will have a larger population than New York.
Sounds a lot like PG&E’s problems.
We look at NY and think that fredo's brother must have a strategic plan to save NY's natural gas for 50 years so that it will be more valuable.
He won't be here, but New Yorkers will hail him as a genius for saving the gas. S/Off
You were being sarcastic; but, until very recently, a lot of people (likely a large majority) believed in “peak oil”, and thought it wise to preserve domestic supplies, by buying more and more foreign oil and gas. That was even the case in Canada, until the magnitude of oil-sands reserves finally sunk in.
There was as much proof for 'peak oil' as there is for 'man made global warming' and the same people push them both.
I never believed that there was such a thing as 'fossil fuel' made from the bones of the dead animals.
so I am not a geologist or subsurface engineer but, I do stay at Holiday Inn.
Peak oil is correct (within the understanding of drilling and production technologies when it was proposed). A lot of what it was about was the difficulty of shale oil production.
Horizontal drilling, highly accurate directional drilling and fracking are technologies that are all fairly old and were combined in a novel way to address shale oil production.
Peak oil was stupid because the oil shales have been known about for decades. So it was only a matter of time until someone figured out how to produce it.
And yes, CO2 regulation is about destruction of free enterprise through regulation. That Enron was behind carbon credit market development is to me all anyone needs to find out to identify it as a scam.
If National Grid were smart, they would withdraw from the New York market. Given the current political climate and policies, it will be a disaster for the company and shareholders if they stay. There will be rate cuts, lawsuits and judicial ordered “remedies” that will bankrupt the company. Get out now.”””
Straight out of “Atlas Shrugged”....
Shut it down. Shut all of these down now or I'll have your job!
They better not come to Texas and beg for energy; the governor and people here will gladly give them all the finger and tell them to get lost.
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