The East and South are getting hit by a nasty storm that is taking out electrical power throughout the region. Some areas may lose electricity for more than three weeks.
Colorado Democrats want to ban natural gas for heating and electrical production. How many Colorado citizens will die when the solar panels are covered by snow, or the transmission lines go down?
Will their voters die from carbon monoxide poisoning trying to heat their homes? Or just freeze in their homes because their electrical heat systems fail and their heat pumps have no juice.
Dead citizens because of some vague calamity in the future that temperatures might rise by 1C.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Might be time to think about that natural gas generator for the home and a battery system for the electricity. Might actually be cheaper than paying for electricity from Xcel given the never-ending rate hikes. Nearly 10% starting in August of this year, which is just in time to cash in on the heat pumps the PUC is trying to make everyone adopt going forward . . .