Posted on 08/31/2024 8:46:43 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
“I almost don’t have the heart to tell you the sarcasm meter was hard pegged!!”
LOL...oh well, it’s a pretty good essay, if I do say so myself!
Electric bills are now similar to what monthly rents were not too many years back.
How sad...
“Folks in my town have electric bills that are averaging $50 - $100 over last years rates.”
Depends on where you are. The only increase of rates in my area is from taxes. Plenty of them to go around. But Washington state sells electricty to the US and parts of Canada. Washington is the leading producer of hydroelectricity in the United States, with nearly two-thirds of the state’s electricity coming from hydropower. In 2023, Washington accounted for 25% of the nation’s total utility-scale hydroelectric generation. However, the state’s power needs will increase an estimated 97 percent by 2050, or almost 230 million megawatt-hours. Therefore Washington will have to import a huge amount of power. I guess we all can expect a bill increase in time as profit over charity takes a greater foothold.
And as long as these get rich quick power ideologies like wind and solar continue to go TU, we are heading for the caves again. Glad I live in an area with a lot of trees. But businesses like Wayfair and Ikea will prosper as we are forced o burn our furnture in the fireplace to keep warm and cook. People are going to have multiple car collisions trying hit that deer in the road.
wy69
This going on around the country now. It was California first and now it is spreading.
The solution is to close more oil and natural gas and coal and nuclear power plants.... and build more windmills and solar panels.
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