Government wants you dead, so stupid policies make sense
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
When one realizes that government wants you literally dead, lots of really stupid stuff suddenly makes sense.
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“According to the most recent data from the federal government’s Energy Information Administration, in 2021 New York got some 46% of its electricity from burning natural gas and another 1% from fuel oil, and almost all of the rest from either nuclear (25%) or hydropower (23%, most of which comes from Niagara Falls).
Non-hydro “renewables” (wood, wind and solar) provided only about 6% in total, and about 2% of that was from wood.
After decades of hype about their wondrous future, wind and solar provided only about 4%.
And in 2021, the state closed the Indian Point nuclear plant, replacing its output almost entirely with natural gas generation, meaning that the percent of our electricity supply coming from fossil fuels is now up near 50% today.
If more electricity is needed, the options are few. New nuclear plants face vociferous opposition from environmentalists, with almost no prospect that that can be overcome.
A completely finished nuclear plant called Shoreham sits idle on Long Island, having never been approved for commercial operation in the face of vigorous environmental opposition.
As to hydropower, we do not have another Niagara Falls.
Wind and solar produce remarkably small amounts after decades of hype and massive subsidies; and what they do produce is intermittent and often unavailable when most needed on the hottest and coldest days.
●●●》The last option, natural gas
– the one that is available, scalable, and actually works –
is the one our politicians are pledging to eliminate without anything to replace it. …”