“Today, residential electricity rates in the Northeast are twice as high as those in the Midwest or South and climbing fast. High natural gas prices, weather disasters and rising transmission costs are major factors, but clean energy mandates also add costs….”
“Ms. Hochul, Mr. Lamont and Ms. Healey have also expressed openness to new natural gas pipelines…. A few smaller pipeline expansions have begun moving forward.
A sea change in energy policy is occurring in the U.S., which represents one-fourth of the world economy. And this change is increasingly pushing the world to ditch Net Zero and let the best energies win in a free and open marketplace.
The latest recognition of this came in a recent New York Times summation, “Northeast States Set Big Climate Goals. Now Those Plans Are in Trouble.”…
“The EV bust in the U.S. is front-page business news. The domestic battery industry is following suit. The demise of the U.S. rooftop solar industry, despite subsidies, is now all about litigation to get out of long-term contracts. Add the EV school bus bust.”
A sea-change is occurring in energy policy as realism overtakes magical thinking. But you would not know it from the social media ‘denialists’ (thousands of climate-related professionals) who claim that
In a bizarre piece, “Solar Is the Cheapest Power in History, But States Are Retreating from It,” Haley Zaremba states:
…Solar is now the cheapest energy source in human history, yet rollbacks are spreading from California to Virginia as officials blame high costs and a hostile Trump administration….
“Literally millions are saved at any one time around the world by the use of fossil fuels in transportation and electrical generation. Imagine not having the gasoline or diesel to get to the hospital, or sanitary water and conditioned air.”
MasterResource has followed eco-radicalism and Deep Ecology, the religion behind it. Ecocide, a term transferred from the Holocaust term genocide, has been explained and debated at this site.
Eco-radicals see humankind as a plague on Nature. (“I campaign for the extinction of the human race,” stated Les Knight in The Guardian.) They exaggerate, fuss, protest, threaten, and at times end up in jail. The malcontents (e.g. Roger Hallam) are at odds with society and are to be watched carefully and avoided. Eco-terrorism is always a few steps away.…