During a speech today, Joe Biden bragged about the example of his visit to a Massachusetts coal-fired plant that was forced to close due to regulation. However, what Biden didn’t mention was the energy provider telling customers to expect a 64% increase in electricity rates effective November 1st.
BIDEN: …”I was just — and so we can accommodate that transition. I was in Massachusetts about a month ago on the site of the largest old coal plant in America. Guess what? It cost them too much money. They can’t count. No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it, even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of their existence of the plant. So it’s going to become a wind generation.
And all they’re doing is — it’s going to save them a hell of a lot of money, and they’re using the same transmission line that transmitted the coal-fired electric on. We’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar.”… (link)
Massachusetts – […] National Grid said the monthly bill of a typical residential customer using 600 kilowatt-hours of electricity will increase from $179 last winter to about $293 this winter, an increase of about 64%. National Grid said the delivery portion of electric bills will basically remain flat.
“National Grid buys electricity on behalf of its customers from the wholesale power market through a regulatory approved process established 20 years ago. That process has served customers well over the years and provides flexibility for unforeseen events, like limited supplier response to solicitations. But things have fundamentally changed,” Helen Burt, the company’s chief customer officer, said in a statement. “Today, under a sustained, high market price environment, it is challenging to maintain affordable prices. Given that, we think it’s a good time to work with our regulators and other stakeholders to review the process and electricity supply dynamics in the region, with an eye toward reducing price volatility and maintaining a secure, reliable and resilient energy system for the future.”
The company also announced that its natural gas rates are expected to rise on Nov. 1. They said they have a pending proposal with the state Department of Public Utilities that would result in the monthly bill for an average Boston Gas residential heating customer using 115 therms per month of $278, an increase of $50, or 22%, compared to last winter’s rates.
[…] Over the border in New Hampshire, Eversource announced in July that electric rates would be doubling for many residents due to higher natural gas prices fueled in part by the war in Ukraine.
Eversource did announce Wednesday that it has submitted a proposal to the Department of Public Utilities seeking to raise its natural gas rates. They said their average residential customer using 126 therms of gas a month would see an increase of about 38%, or $86 on their natural gas bill over last winter. Those rate increases would take effect Nov. 1. (read m0re)
Biden was a grifter his entire time in the Senate and has reached soaring heights with the power of the presidency.
Grifter is an excellent word choice for Biden.
I looked up Grifter, excellent description. Fits Biden, and his cronies perfectly.
With all the hot air coming out of Biden’s mouth, would probably run a few of those wind machines!
Putin should stop closing all these US power plants.. Oh wait..
Ha!
Massachusetts’ 1,200 MW Offshore Wind Project ‘no longer viable’ (rough waters ahead?) – Watts Up With That?
Guess what, the one off of Block Island, Rhode Island is totally off Line, Problems, problems problems. They will all be rusting hulks in less than 5 years.
I am originally from Massachusetts. Remember- You get what you vote for. So sad.
Build Back Bitter…the Josef Stolen Special Edition
North Korea is better off.
At least Kim Jong-un could name the leader of a foreign country, any country.
North Korea is not better off. North Korea is a gulag.
Biden is Yuri Andropov: the brain dead installed leader of a country in collapse.
Great analogy. Most people won’t get it, though.
It’s fascinating that they’re sending him to places that aren’t competitive. Or maybe they are, and that’s just how bad things are. Nah, it’ll be used as justification to keep his sorry ass around for 2 more years.
We in the northeast are looking at energy prices 2 times (2x) a year ago. Europe is now experiencing 10X and 15X. So how long do you think we can maintain our 2x cheaper prices? Plus, we run out of Diesel fuel reserves in 2 weeks (which is the same as heating oil in the northeast). What do you think that will do to prices if you can buy it at all. Remember, the Europeans will be bidding for the same supplies.
He is not going to make it.
“No one is building new coal plants because they can’t rely on it, even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of their existence of the plant.” In the land of political gibberish spewed by a senile old coot, this really is a prize winner.
They’re actors playing roles. The Democrats have decided they don’t even need their actors to make sense. Just stand there, recite some gibberish, and the media will tell people what they were supposed to hear.
Never thought of it quite like that before but that’s spot on.
Ya, That woman on the view that called surburband white woman CockRoaches is gone, they fired her sorry ass because they got millions of protest, More protest that viewers. Which is not good.
Every time this vegetable opens his mouth it reminds me of this quote from the movie Billy Madison.
No one is building new coal plants!, China is building dozens of them.
The point he’s making is that no matter how you vote in Tuesday he is still coming after energy to shut it off wherever it is. His writers are asserting that citizens are powerless.
All ya, we are all going to take it up the kazoo over a Republican win, I love Bill Marrs (not even sure how to spell his name) says in reply to one alphabet news report that we are in a cold civil war with the right, Ol Bill said, believe me, that you do not want to get into a shooting war with them because there are more of them and these people on right, they have a lot of guns and they know how to use them.
But Joe says people want a 100 or 150% inflation increases in energy, and that is why they will vote for the Democrats in the mid-terms!
Ya Right, wanna buy a bridge?
And rolling blackouts have been warned…CT and MA.
This befuddled, crazy old coot on the loose and mouthing off days before the mid-terms… a gift for the conservatives.
A vote for a D is a vote for not only the continued destruction of the country but your family also.
We will see in the near future the cost of solar farms to the environment. Who is responsible for the maintenance and disposal of solar panels? What is the human cost to retrieve the minerals used to produce a solar panel? Are electric vehicles used to mine the minerals? This “go green” deal will cost us all in ways unseen at the present.
It is hard to believe that some of the so-called smartest people push this bs.
Replace “smartest” with “manipulative,” and it makes more sense. The depth of their evil has no bottom. It’s an abyss.
They are insane.
The Chinese have to be paying these people to keep this up. China will have to make all the solar panels because we won’t have the energy to produce one single thing. Who will make the cement and rebar, dig the hole for the wind turbine platform?
Ya, China is going to have plenty of energy from all those coal burning plants they are building.
Maybe they are not so smart, Ya know, those that know everything are getting pretty annoying to those who do!
‘We’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar.’ – “Biden”
This barking-mad rant is a threat to turn our lights out for good.
“Biden’s” objective is exactly the same as malicious hackers trying to cripple the grid.
He is a menace to the people … a deadly enemy of America.
He has to be working for Xi.
He is (Biden) a Horsesass! or maybe a donkey’s Ass is more like it… however, A HorsesAss fits better as they are bigger.
As a former Mass resident I know both Eversource and National Grid providers are among the highest cost / kWH in the nation. It astounds me that so many in Mass drink the Green Energy Kool Aide.
IIRC, wasn’t Massachusetts getting heating oil from Russsia years ago? There was a Kennedy involved. Might have been RFK, Jr.
I believe that is true. But it didn’t help that many, more of a PR activity.
When we are all cold and dark and busy trying to find ways to stay alive, that’s when China will walk in the front door, kill every last politician and say America is now mine. I firmly believe they are the source of every last deviant thing happening to the American people.
No they won’t, because that is when Trident missiles from Ohio class submarines will destroy everything and put us all out of our misery
I am 79 years old and Massachussts has been this way forever and will always be so. They deserve everything they get.
Massachusetts deserves Joe Biden. I would wager 3/4 of the people in that state have no idea where the electricity in their house comes from and why their electric bill has doubled.
Red states are going to have to start passing residency laws requiring people fleeing from blue states to live there 25 years in order to establish residence and be able to vote in State elections.
Wait until MA residents realize that their grocery bills jumped another 15% because it see the grocery store can’t afford to keep the lights in.
I live in Massachusetts. I certainly hope it’s less than 75%. We shall see on Tuesday just how stupid my neighbors are. Praying for a red wave and for people to wake the hell up. Tired of this crap.
We have a low Sulphur, high tech coal plant in our state. It is in one of the most desirable scenic property areas. You have to be very rich to own a home near it. Property value has done nothing but GO UP. It burns clean. No reason why we could not build more of them.
Lack of political will to do so.
They had a great one in Somerset, Ma. They tore it down because all the people in Rhode Island got tired of looking at it. Guess what, now they can’t look at it anymore but they are gonna wish they could while they freeze their butts off.
CAUSE: EFFECT! Logic 101. Obviously not a MENSA member.
Joey’s late first wife (an actual teacher) compiled lessons/schoolwork for him so that he could grasp what he was supposed to learn and he still ended up graduating in the bottom quarter of his class in a second – rate law school.
I am only sorry that I am not old enough to see how historians evaluate Biden and his (hopefully, short) Presidency- he’s surged to the top of the rankings of WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY….”Dr.” Jill should be arrested for elder abuse….
Ya, same for that woman in Pennsylvania, what is is name, something. Fetterman!
When my grandfather was his age he could not use a remote control and could not comprehend a tv without tubes in it . Not long after that fiasco he ended up in diapers & 24/7 observation so as not to harm himself and this bobble headed fool is the president ???
The election had to be corrupt or the nations voting public general IQ is below whale shit
“Helen Burt, the company’s chief customer officer, said in a statement. “Today, under a sustained, high market price environment, it is challenging to maintain affordable prices. Given that, we think it’s a good time to work with our regulators and other stakeholders to review the process and electricity supply dynamics in the region, with an eye toward reducing price volatility and maintaining a secure, reliable and resilient energy system for the future.””
Let me rephrase this to make it more understandable since Ms. Burt apparently got her degree in the art of obfuscation. You guys voted for this crap. You created the environment we are working in. You knew prices would become unaffordable but, since there is a gun pointed at our head, we have no choice but to acquiesce to the demands of our conqueror and close these plants and charge much much more for electricity but, we are going to pretend to work with our lesser stakeholders with an eye toward lessening this volatility and of course maintain a secure, reliable and resilient energy system for the future as interpreted by the folks with the gun. If the vax is safe and effective then wind and solar power can be secure, reliable, and resilient.
Who are these ‘stakeholders’? Are they Chinese? Maybe one of the “Judges” who is allowing this illegitimate cabal to stay in power knows?
Is there any accountability for TREASON anymore? The worst crime ever, is there any accountability?
Theses democrats must pay for treason!
Li ne them all up together with a firing squad, for the love of God already!!