Posted on 01/07/2022 5:41:38 AM PST by Kaslin
From a climate perspective, this is a great time to be alive. We should enjoy it for the remaining 200 or so years it lasts until we go into another cooling period (like the Little Ice Age or the Dark Age).
The bad news is the painful higher prices. The good news is by the Fall we can pin this wicked policy on the Rats. The only caveat is that the Republicants probably won’t pick up the ball and run with it.
WTI is sitting at just over 80 bucks as I type.
Nobody is more bullish on oil and gas than Joe Biden.
Yep, the Permian Basin is starting to hum again. Thanks Brandon!
Obsolete article
The author is wasting ink on a dead topic
Yep drilling is picking up and the Fracing is catching up.
This likelihood of rising energy costs was a big driver of why we added solar power onto our home.
1. It works REALLY WELL for us, covering the vast majority of our consumption.
2. If you don’t have it, and only want to rant against it, I am not going to listen to you. Of course it only generates power during sunshine, generates less in winter and on cloudy days. I never would have guessed. j/k
3. We have now placed our family in a position to generate ~75% of the power we need at a flat rate for the rest of our lives. If push came to shove, we could reduce our consumption substantially by changing our lifestyle, and probably cover 90% of our usage. We didn’t want to be 75 years old looking at a $600/mo electric bill.
4. We have a battery on the system so (a) it’ll work when the grid is down, and (b) glory be it runs our house at night, every night.
5. We got a great deal from the seller and also enjoyed the 26% ITC (aka Federal subsidy) so it saves us real dollars every year, from day one. Don’t b!tch about the subsidies if you claim exemptions on your 1040. It just so happens it amounted to a really big exemption for us (as a tax credit). The house is paid for, the kids are grown, so our Schedule A is pretty barren. This helped A LOT.
6. As I have written before, I enjoyed a career in or on the edges of cybersecurity, predominately with Fed Gov as my customer. From that experience AND following the articles and forums of Jonathan Hollerman (griddownconsulting.com)et alia I have little faith in the survive-ability of the US power grid from either cyber or kinetic attacks. So we took steps to ensure we have power, and it’s SILENT power. You can too, or you can b!tch from the sidelines about how solar power is a waste and stupid. When you put solar on your OWN HOME, you now OWN the power you produce and the ability to produce it. (we went the Generac route on the prior house and while 100% functional it turned out to be pricey [seldom used/ poor payback] and even though well-muffled, it was quite audible when running (no OPSEC). When your utility puts in solar fields, it only ‘helps’ them and benefits you nothing. So rightfully gripe about utility-scale solar, but I can tell you from personal experience that a well-designed, well-researched residential solar system works really well for the homeowner.
I welcome your reasoned replies, especially given the certain increases in energy costs we all face ... as we age.
Historically, energy prices in the US have increased 5% per year for the last 10 years, including the Trump years.
While your utility *may* brag about their cost per kWh, look CAREFULLY at your bill for other charges. Their costs of operation are never going down - Genco, Transco or Distco - it costs more and more every year to operate and maintain the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity.
AND ... the State wants you tethered to their electricity, or else.
Prediction: fossil fuels, including the wood for your fireplace/woodstove and the charcoal/propane for your smoker will be ruled illegal or rendered prohibitively expensive. So they’ll have their BBQs on Martha’s Vineyard and eat gas flame-grilled steaks in Georgetwon. But not us little people.
I have looked into this, but the only company working my area won’t give me a system installation price that is stand alone. They want to “install for free” and roll all the costs back into a loan paid out over 20 years at an unspecified interest rate. The power I generate would be “free” but I still have to pay back the loan, so really I don’t know what the true cost is. More competition in this business area might help, but it seems like so many other big business (airline routes, internet providers, power companies) there are local monopolies.
The Ice Age was supposed to have begun in the 1970s. 12-15 years of hype turned out to be-—nothing.
NOT ‘COULD”
WILL
Did they take away our tax cuts yet, as democrats promised to do?
I always thought the same thing when as the governor of NY State Cuomo banned FRACKING for Natural gas in NYS.
The Utilities that already owned natural gas had no incentive for their prices to go lower. There are capped gas wells all over SW NYS. I personally know two of my cousins who have capped wells on their dairy farms. The only gas coming out of those wells is the small amount that they use on their farm.
The main problem I have with the global warming hype is that we're supposed to ignore the historical facts of prior warming periods that are just like this one (and by contrast how much better life is during the warm periods than the historical cool periods).
Well if it is modern global warming you want look no farther than the Rachel Carson book THE SEA AROUND US and the 1953 movie by the same name. She also wrote SILENT SPRING witch destroyed the DDT industry.
A quote from the movie..
Commentator: “It has been established beyond all reasonable doubt that the great Arctic change of climates started somewhere about 1900 and has spread so rapidly that small glaciers have already disappeared, and the big ones are melting at a startling rate.”
They’re going to go higher regardless of whether they pass the bill or not
I have 5 acres of woods so I have plenty of fuel
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.