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)
What say you now, Manchin, you traitorous imbecile??
He’s to busy threating social security to fight inflation to listen to you. While voting for Ukraine give aways.
They are all guilty of that one. Probably swept up the nonexistent pennies out of the SS lockbox to send to keep Zekensky quiet. They all disgust me.
The US Tax Payer is defending Ukraine’s Borders – anyone think Ukraine would spend their resources to defend ours?
All without any Congressional approval, vote, assent, anything…AND ON OUR DOLLARS.
Joe DOESNT HAVE THE DAMN AUTHORITY! And NOT ONE Congressman has stood up against him.
Abject cowards.
This is what the Democrats, RINOs & NWO GOPe are all about. If only you could blast just this news story 24/7 at them while their electricity & gas is off during a Nor’Eastern. I’m sure those wind turbines & solar panels are going to work just swell.
Note to FJB: You have no soul, you vacuous old windbag. Stay cool for now, daddyO. You’re going to burn in Hell for all eternity.
In exchange for his treason with the Cabal, he was probably guaranteed election victories. Think about it. Im sure real election results was the only thing stopping him from doing something like this before. Now, that threat has been removed.
If I were going to mess with constituents and their jobs, I wouldn’t be picking on the good hard coal miners of West Virginia…or Pennsylvania…or Ohio.
Actually, it appears that the cabal “made him an offer he couldn’t refuse” to force him to play the broken puppet for them.
The same surveillance state has all the dirt on him and his family.
Look at him, propped up on drugs, drifting in and out.
Is Manchin up for re-election on Tues?
Looks like not until 2024.
Manchin, Romney, et al, will not run in 2024…they will slither away with their ill-gotten gains. We will see them on Pravda every so often, opining on their “winning strategies” for the Cabal.
No. Unfortunately. But he has sold his constituents out. And he voted for the ridiculous Inflation “Reduction” Act, which is in part responsible for this.
He sold his vote. I suspect this will be his last rodeo.
No he’s busy with the GOPe creating a UniParty Ticket for 2024.
Manchin’s WV constituents are in AEP or Allegheny Power, both of which are in the PJM power pool. PJM covers the Mid Atlantic states, from NJ west to IL.
WV coal plants just got a nice $140mil state subsidy to pay off their wastewater upgrades and continue operating for another 6 years. That will keep them compliant with EPA regulations for the remainder of Biden’s term, and Trump’s second.
https://www.wvpublic.org/energy-environment/2022-08-09/mon-power-reaches-settlement-to-keep-2-coal-plants-in-operation
Interesting…thank you for that information.
West VA needs to fire Manchin yesterday. That oily weasel has lied his last lie as a senator.
I can’t say anything…we’ve got CoC Poster Boy, Cornyn.
We have traitors in government that sold their soul for money. This is for the so-called Christian majority if you don’t vote this election the right way you are complicit in the downfall of this country and God will hold you accountable.
Your assumption is that the vote counting will be fair. Not a bet I would take.
Not at all when I’m stating if there are 70 million or more Christians in America and only about 35 or so million votes that leaves around 40 million Christians that don’t bother to vote. That would make a big difference in the outcome.
I was a liaison between several churches and our local political group. I finally gave up. They didn’t get it. I can hardly believe that in the 30 years since I did that, so little has changed.
‘ During an interview Tuesday (October 25) on American Family Radio, author Eric Metaxas lamented that the American Church, for the most part, is silent – and not wanting to be political.
“Where we are now in America is because of the silence of the American Church on all of these issues that we ought to be shouting about,” said Metaxas. “And it parallels precisely the silence of the German Church in the 1930s.”
…
In his bestselling biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas reveals the similarities he sees between the American Church now and the German Church almost 100 years ago, which saw the rise of Hitler and the growing persecution of the Jews.
“[But] they just thought, Oh well, we’re just the church. We want to stay in our lane, we just wanna preach the gospel, we don’t want to get political. They kept their mouth shut when God was asking them to speak and to be bold and to live out their faith boldly. They were silent,” he recounted. “And once they woke up, it was too late.”
Metaxas fears the same thing is happening now, as government gets more authoritarian, less godly, and weaponized against the church.
“There are tons of pastors and Christian leaders who are being silent on a raft of horrible things that are happening. They should be screaming from the rooftops,” he exclaimed. “We have gone over into anti-American cultural Marxism. It’s the enemy of liberty; it’s the enemy of the Church. If you don’t speak up, God will hold you accountable.” ‘
https://afn.net/church/2022/10/27/metaxas-to-the-church-wake-up-speak-up-in-cultural-battle/
I believe Eric was on FlashPoint last week.
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.
God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To whom much has been given, much will be required. We were given the most marvelous heritage of freedom, prosperity, ever known to man. BY GOD.
We have used it for greed, war, all kinds of things. We have abused our privilege of being the reserve currency. We have become degenerates.
I always believed we had a stewardship from God here, and look at what we have done with it.
Amen Missy, May God Bless you! You get it.
Christians have a duty to God and that includes America and what it once stood for the Goodness of God’s Grace.
And then look at what God has allowed Satan to do to America. We became far too fat, dumb, and carnal. As a nation, We rejected God and Christ. We embraced false religions with their false gods.
It is no wonder that the nation is being harmed by Satan’s minions.
It gets much better–bet potato didn’t bother to tell this either…
I just saw this story. Thank you for highlighting it. Yes, the whole idea that an area as vast as the US can get all of its energy needs from unreliable wind and solar is madness. One cannot reason with lunatics and their flights of fancy to which they are completely wedded. As long as these people continue to reap (not make) obscene levels of money selling their snake oil, this will not stop.
It’s the acquiescence of those whom in ordinary circumstances I’d consider reasonable and clear thinking in the mental illness of climate worshiping that flabbergasts me. And not just a few here and there. Whole industries and their execs have lost their minds.
For politicians of little brain, this boondoggle is of course about power. But for the rest? Their bottom lines which should be their main concern have taken a backseat to virtue signaling.
It’s going to cost them, and their shareholders, as they rush head long into a ridiculous and false ideology for which the technology to support it is in its gestation period.
What am I talking about…this whole script from delusional godless actors is going to kill millions. Bottom lines will be the least of anyone’s concerns.
These people are insane
So are the people who vote for them.
Exactly, I know it’s rigged. Duh! .
They absolutely steal, cheat, intimidate, and lie through their teeth.
But, but, but…
What kind of dumbass could STILL vote Democrat?
I was once a dumbass— back in the day— who did.
It didn’t take total annihilation for me to see and feel the lunacy and hypocrisy. How the hell could anyone still cast a vote for these destructive communist pricks?
Liberal or conservative— who willingly puts their own head on the chopping block with the Thanksgiving turkey?
This country is dying. We are being gutted from within.
Assuming ANYONE actually did…
I know people up there who did, and do.
They need a wake up call.
Oh they did. They are convinced that they will make more money by working for and voting for Democrats than standing up for constitutional rights, honesty, integrity, and law and order. I believe it is that simple.
Yep. The people who vote for them are the crazy ones.
Any crackpot can run for office.
Takes a special kind of crackpot to say: “hey! That guy sounds great! He’s got my vote!”
Vote Harder?
And everyone in the world knows these bird beaters and solar trash is all built in chynuh. Everyone also knows they are junk. As byedone pushes bird beaters and solar crap, Germany and others are firing up their coal and nuclear plants. Chynna is pumping out more coal than the rest of the world combined. This is all about D2A. Death to America. The 2020 demonicrat campaign slogan. Remember!?
Hunter has probably just been appointed to the boards of turbine and solar panel companies.
Exactly, Paca. And wind turbines not only beat up the birds but they rot the landscape, too. To provide as much power as these idiots expect, we’re going to run out of that “open space” feel before too long. To that objection, a brainwashed lib said, “Well, there’s no perfect solution, is there?” I wanted to wring her neck. It’s all about her feeling virtuous. It’s a cult.
It’s the biblical sin of PRIDE. That’s all that virtue signaling is, after all.
As was the Tower of Babel, and, we know how that turned out. Confusion!
Wind turbines & solar panels don’t supply energy in Nor’Easterns or other periods of bad weather. You can build all you want, but you can’t store it & the sun still won’t shine 24 hrs/day & the wind won’t blow at the right speed 24
hrs/day, 365 days/yr.
And BTW, Ovomit & Hildebeast sold 20% of our own uranium to Russia so Russia could get the richest uranium in the world in that country I can’t begin to spell that starts with a K.
You would think the Bush or Cheney families, who made their millions in the oil & gas industry, would stand up for this country &/or the industry.
The ramblings of the Village Idiot… only he’s the idiot who has the power to destroy.
The Village Idiot who makes this announcement in advance of elections…which are taking place in coal producing states. Bet dim Dems running in those states are singing his praises (eye roll).
…not that that is a bad thing.
This won’t make the news, though.
Word gets out I expect.
Coal miners in every coal producing state know they’ve got targets on their backs. Like the French Resistance, I’m betting they have efficient lines of communication.
Please vote for your GOP candidates everyone. No GOP politician let alone President would ever do something like this. All of the Dems are on board with the green austerity measures.
You’re so right and I will be voting in person, can’t wait!
Wot? There could be a “cold snap” in New England in the winter that could result in “generation issues” and “rolling black outs”?? Who knew? How bad were the “generation issues” and “rolling black outs” when the coal plants were generating power? Anyone ask ChiCom Joe if the coal plants provided cheaper and more reliable energy? I guess not!
I don’t ever remember having ANY rolling blackouts…ever. Not in MA, CT…anywhere. Sorta sounds like an unveiled threat, no?
Nope, never. Lived in New England my entire life.
“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.”
That is mal-information, disinformation, or misinformation. The only way that the war in Ukraine is having any effect on gas prices is because Biden is sending LNG to Europe in such quantities that prices for gas in the US has risen.
Language is important.
LIES…let’s call it what it is.
Also, he and his admin/regime created the atmosphere and conditons for Russia to take decisive action with Ukraine.
Last time Brandon was in the WH as VP and Victoria Nuland in satdepth., they set up the coup in 2014. Russia moved then and took Crimea instead of losing it to rabid psychos.
F Zelensky and Brandon.
It’s only in short supply if the U.S. made a decision to stop producing LNGs or failed to build the infrastructure to get it there. Plus it was a way to get Europe off dependence on Russia & OPEC.
But our Commander in Chief’s decisions aren’t really being challenged much by McConnell, McCarthy or the Republicans, are they?
BTW, once it finally came out that our climate crisis girl Gretchen is really an anti-capitalist Communist, are you as worried about the future of the planet due to a climate crisis? Or are you more worried about a nuclear war because of FJB?
I watched a clip of Kamel toe address Masshole residents claiming that there’s millions to fix this problem. We’re going to assist yo financially by buying you a mor efficient stove or help you pay for more insulation. Yeah,that’s gonna work.
Just where they want us, dependent on the government.
More insulation? hahahaaha.
Most people up there have so much insulation stuffed everywhere, doubt there’s room for another square inch.
Well the majority of them voted for it – so he’s just giving them what they said they wanted.
That’s right…no sympathy from me.
The sad part is 50% of the citizens in this country are insane and will vote for Biden because, you know, Green.
There is NO objective evidence to support your “50 percent” figure, assuming you are a fellow election denier.
Not to ‘jump on’, but by posting that comment, you promote one of the most perniscious false narratives, that pollsters and pundits have repeated as nauseum, because “if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes accepted as truth.”
“America is a 50/50 nation, with slightly more voting Dem.” is the false narrative.
There is NO objective evidence to support this.
Roughly 1/2 of States do not record party affiliation when people register to vote.
Hence, even the DNC and RNC can not tell you how many registered R’s and D’s there are.
Polls,…forgetaboutit!
Before the 17th amendment, U.S. Senators were appointed by State legislatures.
As a mental excercise, lets pretend it was still that way.
30 State legislatures, both houses R majority, so we can assume they would appoint 2 R’s, for a total of 60.
17 State legislatures, both Houses Dems, so thats 34 D Senators.
2 State Legislatures are split, one house D, the other R, and one is wierd unicameral.
Simplified, we get roughly 63-37 R majority.
And yet, our current Senate is EXACTLY what their false narrative would have you expecting; 50/50 with Karmala breaking the tie.
Thank you for explaining this issue so clearly! It is so important but so often very misunderstood! The decade from 1910-1920 caused unbelievable harm to our country but so few people understand the full ramifications of the 16th & 17th Amendments, along with the creation of the Federal Reserve.
Sadly, today we are reaping the seeds of evil that were sown back then and the only way forward, IMHO, is to go back in time and rip all of them up from the roots!
Well, great explanation. But like you stated, “let’s pretend,” unfortunately, reality fits the 50/50.
Their false narrative is the reality on the ground.
Reality is some harsh evidence.
And the 17th Amendment is real.
Great analysis, as always. The 17th & 16th Amendments were the beginning of the slow death of our nation. The 16th wasn’t even ratified.
I don’t think it’s 50% anymore, little.
A LOT of Dem Voters have woken up and smelled the coffee in the past 2 years.
Is it just a “sniff” or is it a snootful that you keep tasting as it drips down the back of your throat that you can’t stop tasting no matter what you gargle?
Because if it’s not the latter, they vote “D” no matter what.
Ever notice we NEVER refer to “DINOs?” They don’t exist because there are NO moderate Democrats when it comes to voting. And Republicans aren’t infiltrating the Democrat party so they can vote Republican.
The poster child for the banality of evil. He exists in a bubble of the crap his handlers feed him, oblivious to the suffering he brings. He’s like an old man version of the execrable Greta Thunberg. Crass, soulless and cruelly ignorant.
Tonight’s lead story on Boston’s evening news was the fact that the professional hockey team just signed a player who committed “racist bullying” while in high school.
When the rate hikes were first announced a few weeks ago, the lead story on Boston’s evening news was the fact that the professional basketball team’s head coach had an affair with an employee.
These two stories bookend an endless deluge of stories covering the divorce of the professional football team’s former quarterback.
Panem et circenses ad infinitum, ad damnatium.
Racist bullying. Unbelievable, he was signed to a minor league contract and the incident happened when he was in 8th grade.
Cultural Marxism to the max. Americans are being persecuted (certain Americans) the same way Russians were by the bolsheviks.
Enough is enough. Please God, let these vile creatures be thrown from power and face justice.
Why is my comment awaiting moderation? It has never happened before. I’ve been commenting for a long time on Treehouse .🫤
It happens.
Might be a slight change to your username or email, or something set off a filter algorithm.
I just wait it out when it happens, almost always pops up without needing to seek intervention.
Agree; it happens to us all, simply wait it out. Also, the moderators are great at diving into the bin to see if something got misdirected there.
I’m really looking forward to seeing the vote tallies, and praying the blue voters are fully triple vaxxed
Like Joe said to all of those coal miners that HAD “good union” jobs, Learn to code, man…”…
Will the people riot and seize the plant and restart it? Better they just clot up and freeze.
This is why they destroy the plants as quickly as they can, to prevent just that.
The twin cooling towers were demolished in April, 2019. According to the below article, “cheap, fracked natural gas” ultimately led to the plant’s demise.
See what you think:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2019/04/29/boom-cooling-towers-get-imploded-at-retired-brayton-point-coal-plant/?sh=71fb059776fe
This is what kills me…
Dominion began construction of two 497-foot cooling towers in 2009, which were completed in 2011 at a cost of $600 million.
Smashing brand new stuff we paid for.
Would they know how to start it back up if they did?
How high are their rates??? I am supplied by an electric co-op and my last bill was $60 for 30 days (99 cents a day), $2.40 for the street light and 321 kWh. I’m on a time of use meter or it would have been closer to $70. If my usage was doubled, that’s still only another $28 or so for 640 kWh.
How do people afford bills and increases like that???
FJB!!!!
unless your math is different than mine that is $2/day LOL
I forgot to put that the 99 cents was the base charge for meter and distribution no matter how much I use. Details, details.
.18/kwh is your rate?? Compared to other parts of the country, that is pretty high.
Nope. We have a base of 99 cents per day for providing service whether you use 1 or 10,000 kWh so $29.70 for 30 days. This covers the meter and replaces the per kWh distribution charge other companies charge. The street light is $2.40 so my base charge is $32.10. The regular kWh is .10329 in winter (11/1 to 3/30) and .1112 in summer (4/1 to 10/31). However, I’m on time of use and my rate from 6 to 9 am in winter is .3554 and from 3 to 7 pm in summer it’s .282. This is seven days a week. All other hours it’s .0595 year round. In winter and summer when it’s really cold or hot, I save $25 to $30 per month. Spring and fall when no heat or AC is needed, it’s about $8-10. The heat hasn’t been on yet this fall but without humidity our current 75-80 degree days are pleasant and no AC is needed either.
That’s probably way more detail than anyone needs. I am fine with the base charge because it gives the company a steady base of income, so to speak, and if I use more, that doesn’t increase, just the kWh charge.
I’m looking at my latest bill from Eversource right now:
My total bill is $107.06. Here’s the breakout:
Generation service charge: 237 kWh @ .27900
Distribution charge: 237 kWh @ .07147
Transition charge: 237 kWh @ .00177
Transmission charge: 237 kWh @ .04437
Revenue Decoupling charge: 237 kWh @ .00267
Distributed Solar charge: 237 kWh @ .00341
Renewable energy charge: 237 kWh @ .00050
Energy Efficiency: 237 kWh @ .02254
The generation charge .10 and the delivery charge .17…. .27 cents per KWH is what I was paying prior to the rate hike.
My electric bill:
CONSTELLATION NEW ENERGY, INC
BGE ELECTRIC DELIVERY. $8.75
Customer Charge. 9.00
BGE Federal Tax Credit. -0.25
TAXES & FEES. $0.32
MD Universal Svc Prog. 0.32
TOTAL $9.07
0 kWh used
Did I mention I have 30 solar panels on my roof?
How much is your bill for the solar panels? If you paid cash, what is the amortization. All of these charges are part of your total energy bill & should be included in any calculation.
I broke even on cost in 2019 after paying a one-time, up-front 20-yr lease payment in 2o12.
I disagreed with old fashioned liberals.
I hate leftists.
I USUALLY disagreed with old fashioned liberals, who enjoyed debating with me, as much as I did with them.
Leftists hate me, and like all the Leftist candidates (R&D) REFUSE to debate me,…”cause after I talk with you I am angry for two days!”
Don’t be too sure about those wind turbines, Presidunce, especially if you mean the off-shore wind farms. It turns out they’re very expensive. Who knew?
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/11/u-s-offshore-wind-projects-delayed-due-to-costs-other-obstacles-these-are-complicated-and-expensive-projects.html
very BIG carbon footprints birth—–death…….Dimm/commies only look at pollution during service life
They are ramping up to bankrupt NYS with massive offshore wind projects.
Master Plan – NYSERDA
a single wind turbine has turned into a white elephant failure
Why Bayonne’s wind turbine doesn’t spin – Hudson Reporter
Easily corrodible, unstable and very difficult to fix. Wrecks for recycling.
SOMEONE…PLEASE, explain to me why ANYONE would ever vote Democrat if they have even a modicum of the rights, freedoms, personal income, safety, border issue knowledge???
I am completely flummoxed.
Signed, Suburban Roache
Because they can.
Same thing was asked during WWII, why did those nations do to the Jewish people, the gypsies, the lame, and the answer is the same – because they could.
However the Germans accepted Hitler…mass psychosis.
I doubt Ayn Rand would have even considered writing something that stupid.
Screw Mass, let them pay or let them freeze, they will still vote Democrat, that’s the way Communist roll.
Hey… There are still a few of us stuck behind enemy lines… we dont like it, but have our reasons why we haven’t left yet.
I’m in Mass, I do not vote Democrat.
Chances are that coal plant won’t be replaced with windmills or solar, but will be converted to natural gas. That is happening all across the county.
and …. very damaging to our energy balance. Coal is ideal for power plants because it is delivered efficiently in bulk by barge and train using existing infrastructure, Natural gas is ideal for point of use energy generation using efficient pipeline infrastructure.
One can hope.
Veey true…. Everything is being converted but here in the NE they refuse to bring in more supply and bring in another pipeline. For years before this mess they had to switch to burning oil for electrical generation in some plants because there was not enough supply of natural gas to keep heat going in houses. Were screwed.
66% of Mass voted for JoeBama, so I don’t care if they pay 640% increase
Hopefully , the R voters up there have wood stoves and can stay toasty this winter.
I installed a pellet stove in july… my wife thought I was crazy till about a month ago. Im a daily reader here and took the advice of sundance and did a bit of early prepping.
exactly…it’s like stickin’ your finger in a light-socket and blaming the power company for the shock…..
Gee thanks – I’m part of the 34% that didn’t.
Keep on talking brandon,keep talking.4 days to go.Vote in person on Tuesday.Lets show brandon how much we like his policies with the biggest red wave in our lives.
Build more nuclear power plants !!!
We know that 20% of our uranium was sold to Russia in 3010. How much has been sold to China or another enemy that we don’t know about?
Uranium? Nah, fam, thorium in a 2d gen reactor. Safer and still efficient as all get out.
and the majority of the people in the state applaud the President. They can’t wait for their January heating bills to come in the mail.
Just like the people in NY and IL, among other Idiot-Central states…….
AGAIN…..you are calling others idiots…..MORON are you REALLY sure they voted for that after the revelations over the last 2 years and beyond…….or are you really THAT stupid?
Can I burn solar panels in my pellet stove?.. maybe I can get a tax credit for it.
haha!!!
This is an unrestricted, unconventional 5th generation war on the country, using an installed government of traitors and puppets to collapse the energy system, the economy, the military, the medical system, the family, the culture, etc. It of course involves a biological attack with the jabs. Many people are blind to the war still because they think that a war has to involve bullets, tanks and bombs. This is obviously something that has been planned for decades and involved the slow infiltration of and corruption of all of our major institutions.
Of course, I am preaching to choir.
Hopefully the majority of the population will wake up before it is too late.
William:
Amen, brother.
You (and all of our fellow Treepers) need to watch this in its entirety: https://rumble.com/v1qc2so-this-disturbing-theory-about-the-vaxx-connects-all-the-dots-jeff-nyquist-in.html
Hmm… interesting.
Forwarded to a friend to ponder over.
Slow March through all the institutions including the military.
Secretary of defense Lloyd and General Milley Vanilley.
Not to mention Betrayus, Mattison, etc.
So, I grew up in this area- New England.
Every 5-7 years we’d get what was known as a “Bad Winter”.
A Bad Winter is a winter that’s twice as cold, twice as snowy, twice as icy, and twice as long as usual.
The part of me that wants these people to Wake Up no matter what it takes, is hoping for a Bad Winter this year.
There. I said it.
Doesn’t feel good to say it, but it is what it is.
When I was in high school I lived in Portsmouth, RI (1970’s), not far from the Brayton Point (Fall River, MA) plant that Ob-Biden is gloating about closing. In fact, you could see the cooling towers in the distance from my mother’s bedroom.
MA (and RI and NY) actually have many good, “working people.” They’re just outvoted by the Progressive city-centers + welfare nation.
I relish the thought of the Democrat voting blocks getting a good, hard reality slap. But that is chastened by the recognition that the regular folks are going to suffer more.
Out entire nation needs to be freed from the CCP-backed, unelected Biden-Harris Junta. And the “climate change” fraud that is being utilized by the CCP-Globalist Axis to consign us all to a “sustainable serfdom” existing to enrich global elites and Communist / U.S. / Davos officials.
Thanks Thomas, so true. I grew up in RI and now live in MA – Southcoast, 10-15 mins from Brayton Point.
Cape cod here… grew up in WMASS outside of Springfield. All of my friends dads worked in factories throughout the city or were employed in one of thousands of machine shops. Democrats because of the Union thing. The only thing saving the asses of the dems here is that at least the prior crop of them were still pro cop and knew better than to advocate for the destruction of civil order. Unfortunately we are going to get Maura Healy…. a militant lesbian leftist. Shes had sexual affairs with like six of her female state police protection detail and its all good because shes gay.
OMG 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hey Joe Germany is tearing down windmills so they can mine more coal for their power plants.
China is building more coal fired power plants.
The Bullshitter and Cheat needs to grab a ice cream cone and go back to his basement.
Well, happiness is just a thing called Joe.
Just sayin’
If I’m not mistaken, the reason no more coal fired plants have not been built in the last 20 years is because of government regulations. FJB
The last year Harry Reid was in the Senate he managed to get a proposed coal burning power plant in the eastern edge of Nevada blocked from getting permits; instead oversaw the sale of that huge block of land to a Chinese investment company ostensibly to build a windmill farm. Not sure what they’re using the land for now, think it was near where the Bundy’s ranch was located. Also think that is what kicked off the federal governments raid to remove them from their ranch using an arcane regulation about not having paid federal cattle allotment fees, knowing their ranch was grandfathered in, so it was a bogus excuse to kick them off their land.
The (unelected) Biden-Harris Junta’s forcible implementation of the “Green New Deal / Great Reset” continues …
I am livid. Massachusetts is poised to SELECT Maura Healy, by hook or crook, a Biden protoge who stopped two gas pipelines from ever coming in to the state, as governor. She brags like Joey does as if its a cool thing to make real people suffer. I am born and raised here, with ancestors that came on the Mayflower. I love my home but there are no words to describe my absolute disdain for the democrats who run this state, steal my voice, and my money. It makes my blood boil that they cheat and lie to keep power. For those MA residents that cannot, will not, or are afraid or too stupid to see the destruction democrats cause to a FREE people and our state, I pray your eyes will open. Democrats desire hell on Earth with a payoff of money and power. My vote on Tuesday will be for Geoff Deihl, R’s down line and NO drivers licenses for illegals or any tax hikes. Democrats are evil. Just plain evil.
Dear Miss Molly,
I grew up there too. Still have some relatives/siblings there. I can tell you a few are aware and a few are not.
It is a beautiful state, as you know. We spent large parts of our summers on Cape Cod, a simply charming place.
Born, raised, and schooled in Lexington.
It is very discouraging for the R’s of my family as they know that state will go Blue no matter what.
Sure your current Gov. is supposedly an R. Since you live there, you are well aware who and what he is.
Living in FL now, thankfully, for now. Pretty clear this is right now a pretty great place to be. But things change, so we will see.
Just my 2 cents, maybe not the most intelligent or informative post: somehow I was directed to let you know I understand.
Others who live there, that I know, are also livid re: MH. Select is the word alright!
Also such utter nonsense with regard to illegals getting licenses. So will he MA DMV road test them?
Doubtful.
Be well!
Excellent – thanks Miss Molly. I live in MA – for the past 20 years, and feel exactly as you do and will be voting just as you’ve outlined.
Maura Healy will destroy us, she’s much, much worse than RINO Charlie – who I cannot stand due to his vaccine mandates that put me out of a job (and for other actions of his).
I’m hoping and praying Diehl can overcome, but it’s a long shot. Many, many Diehl signs here on the Southcoast of the state. But just like other states, Boston dominates the vote.
There’s Bad News… and then there’s Maura Healy.
Seeing some Diehl signs here as well… 10 miles west of The Big Bean.
Got that right Mr. Piddles. Good to know there are some Diehl supporters even in the shadow of Beantown.
Its Big City Vote Harvesting , NGO Zukerturds vs The rest of us. In all states. I admire all of the MA posters love & pride for your homes. I feel the same about my neck of the woods.
Cape Cod has been more purple since we used to have a lot of retirees that were more conservative. My town is not woke but we are getting overwhelmed by refugees from NY, CT, and NJ that are bringing their disease with them. Everything east of Dennis is nothing but clones of liz warren and her simp husband. My elderly parents were keeping us here but that chapter closed last month and we will be moving once everything is settled with the estate.
The shutdown of the Brayton Point plant has nothing to do with Brandon. MassDEP enacted a regulation about 20 years ago to eliminate coal and oil fired combustion at that plant, and 4 others that went down already. Brayton Point was the last to go because it was the largest of the 5 and was needed after the others and the nuclear plant in Plymouth were shuttered. The Brayton shutdown was announced in 2013.
I’m an engineer and lifelong Massachusetts resident, so I have a close perspective on this situation. The regulation was viewed as palatable back then even among the GOPe types because of the abundance of natural gas. Unfortunately the likely next Governor has made the prevention of new gas pipelines a centerpiece of her political career.
The selfishness and weakness of the Massachusetts Republicans has a lot of culpability here. We’ve had Weld, Celluci, Romney, and Baker as Governors over the past 30 years but never an actual conservative. New Hampshire with their plague of Sununus is in the same position (Big John was my thermodynamics prof at Tufts so I have a good idea about how he rolls).
While we freeze in the dark this winter with the incoming crackpot I’m at least hopeful that it may finally dawn on our middle class New Englanders it’s time to try something else politically.
8 years of Devolve Taxtrick wasent helpful either. I actually think her administration may be short lived. Too many things are on the verge and will collapse on her watch. Her inclination will be to double down on stupid and make things more miserable in a very short period if time.
Hope you’re right, love your posting name 😀
Goodness, can’t wait until an ice covered windmill picks up speed and starts throwing blades of ice all over windy Massachusetts! ; and
can imagine the greenie headlines will be “Mother nature fights back, wants humans to freeze for all the harm they’ve caused her!”
Why is China still building coal power plants to manufacture all those solar panels and wind generators? Do they not believe the mis-information coming out of the mouths of the Obama Cult? (Or maybe they’re not idiots)
We will be importing coal from China in December and The Big Guy will be collecting his 10% + millions for the rest of the Biden Grifters.
MA has the government it deserves and the idiot it wanted in the Whitehouse. Now enjoy your windmills.
I live in MA, voted for neither, and certainly do not deserve it.
When are we going to accept the Fact that climate change policy is being driven by political over lords.
The science is unrefuted.
Mother nature is the prime suspect.
Let me ask you one simple question. Yes or no.
Water vapor is a strong component of green house gases. Yes or No.
Then if a none human event increased atmospheric water vapor, not by a 1% of current water vapor percentages in the atmosphere but by a nearly a 1/3 increase in the over all atmospheric percentages of the most violatable green house gas mankind could ever introduce into the atmosphere.
I ask you, where is the evil fossil fuel demon in that equation?
Yes I am taking about a volcanic eruption that sent unpresented volumes of the most potent green house into the atmosphere with Zero, no human involvement.
On scales human activity could not ever produce even if we tried!!!
Ah, the eruption in Tonga back in January.
1,450 tons of coal and iron ore to make the steel for one tower. 35 ton blades are from crude oil. 50 ton nacelle also fiber glass.
The increase in winter heating costs will take all the increase old people get in Social Security.
You can use pet coke instead of coal to make steel.
Heating or eating.
The voters of Tip O’Neill, Bwany Fwanks, Ted Kennedy and Elizabeth Warren deserve to get it good and hard
Diesel crunch incoming … right after the election.
Biden will shirk responsibility like he’s done all his life.
Just think what will happen if they allow the diesel fuel to dry up.
You think they wouldn’t let this happen along with deliberately shutting electricity down ?
A couple of Nor’Easters through New England within a close enough span of time I’m sure will screw up all kinds of logistics more than they already are.
I would figure that the depths of winter, say January or February would be about the timing for that.
I have an all-electric house. Last month my bill was $120. In Massachusetts, it would cost $450 – or more than 3 times as much.
I sincerely hope they appreciate all the good their guy is doing for them.
FJB!
Every time I drive over the Braga Bridge – which is at least once a week – I look over the bridge to the spot where the plant’s two cooling towers stood, and where, this past July, FJB visited to “proudly” proclaim the site would become a windfarm, and the whole thing just makes me sick.
The Brayton Point Power Station was the largest coal-fired power plant in New England.
Hope you and other Repubs. up there can stay nice and warm this winter w/o having to break the bank toooo much, Italian.
Sad to say, but this may be the only way to get more of your fellow Mass. people to finally wake up to the Dem Party.
Hopefully, this will be the straw that finally breaks the camels back for them.
Thanks Sunny, agreed – freezing their butts off, hopefully, will result in a long overdue wake up call.
Quid Pro Joe has forgotten that his paymasters @ the CCP are opening 43 new coal-fired with 18 more under construction over the next 12 months. Half of all new coal-fired electrical generation plants in the world are in China. They have no intention of slowing down.
The Biden Administrations WEF agenda is clear: destroy the supply of fossil fuels in order to create a cold & starving citizenry as they are much easier to handle. We’re seeing this through out the industrialized world. There is no acknowledgement of the repercussions of their actions during this election cycle.
The vilification of the oil & gas producers in America is ratcheting up for a very clear & defined reason. According to a recent piece in “Zero Hedge” there has been a strong push within the Administration to nationalize all producers & refiners after the midterms. Once nationalized the government will then kill off oil production at the wellhead once and for all. The very thought of nationalizing anything should scare the hell out of every single American. Just ask the Venezuelan’s how that worked out…. Vote on Tuesday like your future depended on it. We will never get another chance at course correction again.
Ask the Mexicans about PEMEX.