The impending diesel shortage is the latest side-effect of politically pie-eyed progressive energy policy. With just a few weeks’ supply left and no apparent effort to address it, the nation could come to a screeching halt around or just after Thanksgiving but in the northeast, we have a bigger problem.
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We use Diesel to generate electricity.
“The problem has been years in the making as baseload generation has been shut down in New England. The coal plants were shut down, then the oil plants, then many of the nuclear plants. In the recent past, we had fuel diversity in our electric generation which is not available today. Last Januray there were many days where 25% of the electricity produced in New England came from diesel fuel.”
I can confidently say I’ve already done what Kevin suggests, but that’s me (and many of our readers). What about everyone else? And what about the future? Short of a dramatic change in energy priorities in New Hampshire, New England, and the Nation, this problem is not going away. And the Dems are all in on eliminating or banning fossil fuels can’t do without.
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Long Time Coming
Billions, if not trillions, have been wasted by our “leaders” on energy strategies that are incompatible with living in New England (or anywhere it gets cold). Projects to which they still cling for the misdirected federal dollars they get to brag about in press releases for the faux-green street cred. But reality has another legacy in store. People could die if there’s no heating, fuel, or electricity in January. They probably will die. And it behooves us to ask. Was that the point?
I’ve suggested as much in the past. It is no coincidence that the folks looking to cull the masses are advocates for energy solutions that lead to people dying in the cold. Not just on the street but in their own homes. The only other plausible explanation is that they are complete f**king idiots.
In either case, the electorate’s response should be to use their vote to cull the ranks of those in or aspiring to the elected office of anyone who supports the green-only energy future. And not just because it’s not green. Relying on it means there is no future for many and an uncomfortable one for the rest of us.
Not to worry, the “complete f**king idiots” won’t be cold, but you will.
“In the recent past, we had fuel diversity in our electric generation, which is not available today.”
We need that, and the only way to claw back from this brink is Net Zero Democrats and their idiot ideas, and look, there’s an election next week.
