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Probably not how Texas lawmakers would. Approximately 4, CenterPoint customers are without power for a little over five hours. No heat wave. No freeze. A full on blackout. The electrical power grid infrastructure is a good place to start.
Now that we've purchased a home, I believe my tax burden has actually risen when I tally up the sum of income tax and property tax I previously paid versus my property tax bill alone in Texas. As my wife and I approach retirement I can see the very real possibility of being forced out of our home due to rising property taxes.
Texans love to bash California, but at least California took action to try to prevent seniors from being priced out of their homes due to property taxes. Chris Tomlinson has been a lone voice in the state calling for a reduction of property taxes combined with a new income tax to create a more balanced approach to raising revenue.
There's a hundred ways to tweak property tax. Mike, in the US the media is completely controlled by the Left. Chickens yes maybe. A pig maybe, ideally, a cow. Cows are great. A lot like horses in many ways, great company and a Good way to spend any day. THE best way to understand anything is to explain it to someone else.
Cows understand. Hard lessons indeed. Either of those two will thrash Kammie Harris in the general election. DJ Tump would be, in , the same age as sleepy joe is now. Though I doubt Trump will run again in US Presidents are allowed 2 terms in office, which means that Trump could run again and have one 2nd term, but only the one. This recession is going to last until mid, per a financial analyst at Deloitte as well as several others, so plan accordingly.
Most of us will survive. If the Democrats are allowed to steal this election, worrying about is pointless. He was the 22nd and the 24th president People will only start noticing that something is wrong not only through the blackouts, but more importantly through the power bills. The vast majority only care about their wallets. South Australia has the highest power prices in the world now and is a process of reverting back to a giant park.
The rest including the rapidly diminishing remnants of the industry can stay in darkness. The affliction of the analyst…To know more and more about less and less until eventually they know everything about nothing. Cheers Mike. Now that Chancellor Joe and his squad of twats write the laws, interpret the laws and enforce the laws all from the voices in their empty heads they can pay for their Green Raw Deal by disbanding the courts and legislature and rebuild the national infrastructure with labor supplied by deniers rounded up into re-education centers.
If you are somewhere with regular blackouts — you will plug your EV into the power on your arrival home to ensure that your charge is topped up — at the same time as everyone else is doing so and when evening meals are being cooked. This also often matches the time when the Sun goes down and solar power stops. The continual blackouts are not a sign of failure — they are intended and they are already working. HP has now stated its intention to move to Texas. That will work as long as there are states that have baseload power and tax regimes that will support industry.
There is no national power system. It is a bunch of regional systems that rely on each other to greater and lesser degrees. To have nationwide blackouts as suggested by the title, we would first need to build a national super grid that connects the regional systems, then those systems would need to rely on each other for capacity, then something would have to cause an outage.
Permits for the big transmission lines that are needed to make this happen take a long time. The national supergrid needed to make it possible to have nationwide outages will not be in place during a Biden administration.
Realistically, it would take more than 20 years to permit and construct. Otherwise, you walk, rain or shine, muddy or dry. The article did not say that there would be a single nationwide blackout, but that the entire country will start seeing blackouts. Big difference. Whether or not Biden-Harris will choose to go as far and as fast as current law allows them to go in reducing our GHG emissions remains to be seen.
As the loony leftys experience the results of their folly maybe they will come to their senses.. But another disturbing development is happening. People fleeing California are moving to other states and bringing with them the political policies that destroyed California.
So they will inflict the same disastrous policies in their new states thus destroying them too. If they do, it will be too late. Our ancestors took generations to build our reliable power generation and distribution systems. California should have known, solar systems have their highest electricity production at midday. The surge of production from near-zero to maximum causes disturbances on the grid, aka DUCK-curves. In California, the shutdowns of 15 of 19 coastal, CCGT plants led to rolling blackouts during a multi-day heat wave covering a large area of the US southwest, followed by forest fires.
Climate fighters want to shut down the CCGT plants and replace them with utility-scale battery systems. Climate fighters accused the plants of heating the Pacific Ocean! Whenever Germany has very little wind and solar electricity, these countries sell to Germany at higher wholesale prices shortages increase prices. That procedure avoids having utility-scale battery systems, which would be off-the-charts more expensive, as shown in this article. Two socialist idiots at the helm, and they did it without the Voters.
Who would vote for higher taxes, job killing regulations that drive industry to other countries and kill small business. And abuse of our rights. I think not that many voters to win an election. What a surprise for the California governor that the sun does not shine at night and the wind does not blow all the time. Not that it would have made much difference because the Democrats would just have faked more votes.
This is especially obvious in a large country like the U. I hesitate to include social aspects, because I would be called a racist. I can unnerstan enacting regulations and such that force the power companies to move out, but to convert their efficient, reliable gas plant to solar? On their acre site? And no taxpayer subsidies? And are the new plants built and operated by the state? Ditto for new power lines.
The California experiment should provide many lessons to the rest of our country as well as the world. They ruinded Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and now Idaho. Efforts in Texas are already evident. There are pro nuclear democrats. As much as I dislike climate inquisitor Sheldon Whitehouse, he is pro nuclear.
You do not need a lotta calculus, no need to dissect a frog, but a few science classes to explain seasons, our orbit around the sun and maybe some geology to place our current condition in perspective. My children and grandchildren have not had to endure many of the classes I had to endure.
They could opt for some kinda music appreciation, whatever that is, or maybe a class on watercolor painting. And yet one group constantly fights efforts to have school choice options subsidized by the taxpayer when the basic government schools are costing over 10, bucks per student in many schools.
And guess what political persuasion most of the administrators and teachers exemplify? Oh well, next few years will be interesting.
Of course, if Biden gets the presidency, then everything will depend on whether Republicans hold the U. Senate or not. If the Democrats control the U. Senate and use this to try to impose a socialist agenda on the nation, I have a feeling a lot of Red States and their people are not going to go quietly into the night. A first year engineering student could have predicted the energy shortage.
What is so hard to understand that every night the solar energy shuts down? Trust me. You can take that to the bank. So every night where the wind is NOT blowing you have no power. Again, guaranteed!!! Calif believed that other energy producers out of state would bail them out.
They take it as granted that energy demand is greatest around noon just when the sun is the strongest. They have never, not even once, bothered to check to see whether this is true. Max energy load comes in the late afternoon and continues well after sun down. For those places where heaters are more important that AC, max demand comes in the middle of the night when the temperatures get the coldest. Not to worry. About WordPress. Skip to content. Climate Politics Energy. Guest Blogger.
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Gen Lee Schtiff. Reply to Michael December 5, am. Tough Love of this sort is the only thing that will work.
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