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.
Obsolete article
The author is wasting ink on a dead topic
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.
NOT ‘COULD”
WILL
Did they take away our tax cuts yet, as democrats promised to do?
They’re going to go higher regardless of whether they pass the bill or not