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"How did Pennsylvania screw up so badly?"
Four guesses:
1) Ed Rendell
2) Tom Wolf
3) Josh Shapiro
4) ALL OF THE ABOVE
Posted on 10/12/2025 9:04:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democrat governors and Democrat US senators.
Democrats are criminals.
They plunder.
Must you ask?
In a word, corruption.
Corruption and paying homage to the CO2 as pollution fiction.
You guys are breaking my heart!
“R” Residential 48.31
cents per KWh on the big island of Hawaii.
and that is before all the other Democrat mandated
vote buying subsidies.
My bill is closer to $0.55 per KWh.
Granted my home is in the middle of an ocean and my house doesn’t have central heating or air conditioning. I depend on the Pacific ocean for that. I have blankets for unusually cold days and I can strip down for unusually hot days.
I have to cook with propane as it is cheaper than
an electric stove.
Reading about Mainlander energy problems makes me gag.
Pennsylvania Ping!
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"How did Pennsylvania screw up so badly?"
Four guesses:
1) Ed Rendell
2) Tom Wolf
3) Josh Shapiro
4) ALL OF THE ABOVE
I live in PA.
One word: Democrats.
When it comes to energy, Demonrats have a double plus ungood motive. All economic activity requires energy consumption, and Demonrats hate productive economic activity. It causes them envy and injury to their delusional ego, which they experience as emotional pain and cognitive dissonance. By attacking low cost reliable energy from every angle, they seek to reduce what they believe to be the source of their mental illness.
I think part of the reason is that Pennsylvania is stupid enough to built (and incur ALL the costs) “as needed” generation capacity to be available to provide OTHER STATES (within their grid) with power needed when the sun doesn’t shine and/or the wind doesn’t blow. For peak or intermittent power that other states need from power generated by Pennsylvania sources those other states should be charged rates sufficiently high to recove Pennsylvania’s costs to build that “spare” capacity.
Just sayin’.
Abundant sun
Build a solar farm at home,totally off grid, and you can smile when your neighbors complain about their power bill
Make sure you never tell them why you are smiling.
PA voted for Dems. That’s how they screwed it up.
Also Also Democrat control of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Democrat legislators, and of course bureaucrats and regulations.
Pennsylvania didn’t vote for this.
Pennsylvania, you want lower electricity prices?
Stop allowing Deep State to select your candidates for you.
And secure your damned elections.
So how is it that Pennsylvanians are still paying more for electricity every year?
Why is anyone? Rates for power are outrageous!
“After near-stagnant growth for 14 years from 2008 to 2021, electricity demand rose by 3.0% (+128 TWh) in 2024, marking a significant acceleration in consumption growth.”[https://solartechonline.com/blog/how-much-electricity-does-us-use-2025-guide/]
That does not justify 45% cost increases.
CO2 isn’t a pollutant, and never was. It was a hoax. Follow the money. Many crony capitalists and China have profited.
It’s not just PA.
The payback is 20 years so solar is a joke. Solar panels are not free.
The author fails to mention that in Pennsylvania, energy companies compete with manufacturers that use natural gas as a feedstock for plastic/polymer production.
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