While two of New Hampshire’s utilities are about to double the cost of electricity, Australia, a leader in blind devotion to the lies of green energy, saw their rates triple. According to one expert, “Australians haven’t seen a fraction of what’s coming.”
This comes on the heels of an announcement last month that the Australian government will have to pay fossil fuel operators to scale up and burn if they want to “keep the lights on” as electricity prices continue to spiral upward and out of control.
Australia stopped building nuclear, decommissioned coal plants, and banned fracking (sound familiar).
“The impacts in local fuel markets of extremely high international prices for traded gas and thermal coal.
“Reduced availability of coal-fired generation, due to scheduled maintenance as well as long- and short duration forced outages, driving high levels of gas-fired generation, which both raised electricity prices and put pressure on local gas markets.
“Physical fuel supply and hydrological constraints at a number of thermal and hydro generators, which further limited their operational flexibility.”
Blah, blah, blah, we effed-it-up but don’t dare take credit because they’ve got no backup plan. And you can’t blame Putin. Joe Biden and his Green agenda are most likely at fault.
America went from a net exporter of cheap energy to, almost overnight, a chronic dependent of expensive fuel.
OPEC, strapped for wealth while Trump was building American energy dominance, has no interest in increased production and, in some cases, insists it’s not even possible.
China is opening dirty coal plants as fast as it can (to fuel manufacturing and a growing war machine). In the US, Democrats demand paper straws and whine about lawnmower exhaust.
And Down Under, they are on the precipice of something worse than another tripling of electricity costs that will suck their economy into a storm drain and drown it.
And as a nation, as inundated by the effects of Chinese influence as any, they have to seriously consider what’s left for national defense if everything is leveraged toward living like (at least) a second-world nation.
The continent has massive mineral resources, including loads of uranium. If China decides it wants any or all of that, their influence has put Australia on the path of least resistance, especially if America’s Military is sidelined over the increasingly vexing problem of proper pronoun usage.
Meanwhile, here in New Hampshire (and New England), our rates are about to double, so we are on a slightly slower train to the same destination. And instead of finding increased natural gas capacity from domestic suppliers, we are spending millions to plan a commuter rail line. Why? So the cartels run by illegals in Lawrence can more readily get Chinese Fentanyl trafficked across our open southern border up to Manchester and Concord?
What will that train run on, by the way – asking for a friend?
HT | WUWT
