Posted on 09/07/2014 2:53:08 AM PDT by bestintxas
According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), residential electricity prices have risen by 3.2 percent during the first 6 months of this year compared to the first 6 months of last year—the highest year-over-year growth in 5 years. But, the real story is that New England’s residential electricity prices have risen 11.8 percent over that period—the highest increase anywhere in the nation. That is because New England is shuttering low-cost coal and nuclear plants and replacing them with new natural gas plants and mandated renewable energy sources. Worse, New England has done this against a backdrop of in-sufficient pipeline capacity to feed all the demands on natural gas for heating, cooking, and electricity generation in the region as we saw during the Polar Vortex last year.
The increase in electricity prices in New England and across the nation will only get worse as onerous regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will shutter more and more of the nation’s coal plants in favor of high cost renewable technologies and natural gas plants with insufficient pipeline infrastructure to reach consumers in times of high demand. Unless New England starts building pipelines posthaste, or EPA’s anti-coal policies and other anti-nuclear policies are reversed, the region may soon be in serious jeopardy of having adequate power.
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Freeze liberal scum .....freeze.
New England is at best Old England or more properly Neoeuropa. It is no longe America but the Europe it longs to be
“All of these technologies require electricity and huge amounts of it. If you were a nation determined to lead the world in high tech manufacturing government policy would facilitate and encourage the widespread availability of low cost electricity.”
Plus the drag of millions of plug in autos on the grid.
NE liberals past stupid like it was sitting still.
It’s one thing to be ignorant and being able to learn something, but not NE liberals.
They’re not just ignorant they can’t learn, they’re just plain stupid.
“Where is your Obama now???”
What do you mean. Causing this is just about the only campaign promise that he fulfilled.
The arrogance of the NE liberals just compounds their stupidity.
A friend of mine, he’s only in his mid 20’s, was selling real estate in Austin and he couldn’t believe just how stupid the NE liberals moving into Texas were.
He had heard me and his dad talking about how stupid NE liberals were and he never understood what we were talking about until he got a dose of the NE liberal stupid himself.
He thought no one could get dumber than the west coast liberals he was selling to, then the Ne liberals began the invasion.
Wow. When we moved from PA to WA, we saved about 10,000 in property+income taxes (state and local), and insurances. I didn’t calculate the energy savings. PA is at 13.09/kwh, while WA is apparently the cheapest in the country at 8.82. No wonder I have so much extra spending money.
Be of good cheer! I just got wind of two Austin liberals that have moved into Red Hampshire...not sure if they were returning, or just carpetbaggers; but perhaps it is a developing trend!
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