What Really Stupid Electric Energy Policy Looks Like

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
...coming soon to a state near you.


In a hell-bent campaign to rid itself of any form of dirty, messy “non-renewable” energy, New England has been closing down coal and oil plants for the last decade. In 2000, 18 percent of New England’s electricity came from coal and 22 percent from oil. Today it’s 3 percent coal and 1 percent oil. Meanwhile, natural gas — the fuel that everybody loves until you have to drill for it — has risen from 15 percent to a starkly vulnerable 52 percent, just behind California.

There’s only one problem. New England doesn’t have the pipelines to bring in the gas. Nor is anyone going to allowed to build it, either.


http://spectator.org/articles/60007/get-ready-new-england-power-shortage
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
NIMBY .....

this was funny;



At that point California officials decided that the whole thing had been engineered by Enron and other out-of-state merchant providers and the charges and lawsuits flew. No Democrat ever learned a lesson. Industry is headed for the door.

So how have California’s liberal counterparts on the East Coast managed to avoid the same fate? You’d think a region that could produce Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders plus legions of college students trained to hate fossil fuels would have no trouble pursuing the same green dreams. Well, it’s about to happen. In the next few years New England will be facing a full-scale power shortage.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Progressives Go GREEN, by burning COAL in someone else backyard and transmitting the Electricity to their neighborhood
 
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