Power Bills Skyrocket – New Jersey to Maryland – Will it Doom Dems as “Green” Explodes

August 15, 2025 — bunkerville

Energy prices are skyrocketing in the Mid- Atlantic thanks to the Democrat run governments and the chickens are now coming home to roost. What was clear to most intelligent thinkers is that with the Green New Deal starting to have results, the outcome was for told. So let’s hope this high cost of power bills sinks into the mid-term electorate and those who espouse the wonders of Green energy.

Zero Hedge:

A power bill crisis is gripping parts of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and is set to worsen, threatening to financially crush households as long-range forecasts point to a brutally cold winter. 

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The common denominator in both states? A disastrous green energy agenda, pushed by radical leftist lawmakers, is dismantling reliable and cheap fossil fuel power generation in favor of unstable solar and wind. This has unleashed a power bill armageddon on working-class and middle-class households, as well as mom-and-pop businesses, all while baseload power demand surges in the era of AI data centers.

Fox News is beginning to latch onto the power bill crisis theme, starting with coverage of New Jersey residents who are absolutely furious over exploding power bills. This new development could severely damage the state’s Democratic leaders in the upcoming elections.

Perhaps Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s decision to shutter the state’s nuclear and coal plants, without a one-to-one replacement for lost capacity on the grid, was a catastrophic error that is only now coming home to roost. He also prioritized offshore wind farms and other green energy projects, which have left the grid more fragile than ever. 

Let’s head three hours south down the I-95 corridor to Baltimore, Maryland, where far-left activist lawmakers, including Governor Westley Watende Omari Moore, who is being positioned for the party’s 2028 presidential run, have sparked a very similar power bill crisis. 

Cut from the same climate-crisis-cult cloth, these Democratic leaders across the Mid-Atlantic states have failed voters with disastrous green policies.

In Maryland, the power bill crisis seems much more severe than in New Jersey!

Rising costs of energy bills in Maryland spark debate over state’s climate policies

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The chickens are coming home in the swamp.

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California Refineries Shutting Down, CA Gas Prices Could Rise by 75% by the End of 2026

May 8, 2025 — bunkerville

California after all wants to ban all gas powered cars as well as refineries.  “The state of California is currently suing major oil companies over alleged deception regarding the risks of climate change and fossil fuel combustion.”  Be careful what you wish for.

So the answer of course is to close up shop. Now Newsom has had second thoughts. No doubt he figures it won’t help his presidential race. Here is a classic example of foreseen consequences.

Zero Hedge:

California gas prices could skyrocket by as much as 75 percent by the end of 2026 with the expected shutdown of oil refineries in the state, according to an analysis released May 5 by a researcher at the University of Southern California (USC).

Two Phillips 66 refineries in Los Angeles—about 8 percent of the state’s oil refining capacity—are slated to close by the end of this year. Valero Energy Corp. also announced last month it will shut down or restructure its Benicia refinery in the San Francisco Bay area—which accounts for about 9 percent of refining capacity—by April 2026, increasing concerns over gas prices and supply.

The USC analysis states that based on current demand, consumption, state regulations, and other factors, the refinery closures could result in a potential 21 percent drop in refining capacity from 2023 to April 2026.

The state of California is currently suing major oil companies over alleged deception regarding the risks of climate change and fossil fuel combustion.

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(Newsom has had second thoughts about this. One of the answers? State takeover.)

Governor Urges Energy Commission to Take Action

In an April 21 letter, Gov. Gavin Newsom directed California Energy Commission (CEC) vice chair Siva Gunda to “redouble” the state’s efforts to work closely with oil companies to ensure a “safe, affordable, and reliable supply of transportation fuels, and that that refiners continue to see the value in serving the California market, even as demand for fossil fuels continues its gradual decline over the coming decades.”

The governor also referred to the CEC’s Transportation Fuels Assessment report, which lists a state takeover of oil refineries in California as one of several options, and directed Gunda to recommend “any changes in the state’s approach that are needed” by July 1.

Republican state Sen. Brian Jones from San Diego, the Senate minority leader, issued a May 6 statement citing the USC study and calling the refinery closures “a looming energy and economic crisis.”

“If the Governor doesn’t act now, Californians will be blindsided by sticker shock at the pump and skyrocketing prices on everyday goods,” Jones said.

In a May 6 letter to Newsom, Jones called for urgent measures to prevent further refinery closures and support long-term energy stability, such as investment tax credits or other relief from taxes and regulations.

So says the video:

California may lose two of the state’s major gasoline producers in the next 12 months. The departures could hasten the state’s push away from fossil fuels but make another problem worse: California’s high gasoline prices.

Meanwhile, Republican state Sen. Shannon Grove from Bakersfield urged the governor to increase new drilling permits to support in-state oil production instead of relying on “expensive foreign imports, often from hostile nations,” she told The Epoch Times.

New permits have plummeted 97 percent over the last five years, according to data from the California Department of Conservation. New drilling permits in the state dropped from 2,676 in 2019 to 86 in 2024.

“This is catastrophic for every Californian at the gas pump,” Grove said in an April 16 social media post.

“Refineries are shutting down or barely hanging on because they can’t get the oil they need to produce the gas used every day by California families.”

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While we keep hearing “Drill Baby Drill” the loss of the ability to refine all this liquid gold puts a big dent in lowering the price.

Back in 2014 Bunk gave a warning. I doubt this has gotten any better, and I have not read of any new refineries.

Why the United States is giving away ownership of our Energy and Refineries

August 7, 2014 — bunkerville

While we have been puffed up feeling good about our new energy finds, the continued eroding of its control and ownership has been slipping away. I first started reporting on the story when the major refineries closed in Philadelphia, once known as a major hub. What I found several years ago was chilling. We may have lots of oil, but  between the EPA bearing down, and the sale to foreign entities, mainly China, we have much to be concerned about, particularly our refineries….

I ended the post with “So who has the interests of the United States? Do not count on our government.”

The best of the swamp.

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MA State Energy Prices Skyrocket After Blocking Pipelines – Needed Russian Imports.

March 12, 2025 — bunkerville

New England had to import a cargo of Russian liquefied natural gas, even though it is located just a few hundred miles from one of the largest natural gas fields in the world.

Now the people of the state are in an uproar over the high cost of heating their homes.

Gov. Maura Healey deflects blame for surge in Massachusetts utility rates

I caught this tweet yesterday, and Bunk could not resist going back to the box of golden posts from the past:

Gov.@maura_healey admits that part of our energy crisis is due to natural gas being hard to transport to MA. Yet in 2022, she bragged about blocking the pipelines that would have solved this. #Massachusetts families are paying the price for her #energy failures. #mapoli
 

An excellent example of just what has been allowed to happen that puts Americans at risk. 

Even the Boston Globe opined that “Massachusetts’ reliance on imported gas from one of the world’s most threatened places is also a severe indictment of the state’s inward-looking environmental and climate policies.”

The recent winter’s unprecedented imports of Russian liquefied natural gas have already come under fire from Greater Boston’s Ukrainian-American community, because the majority shareholder of the firm that extracted the fuel has been sanctioned by the US government for its links to the war in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. Last week, in response to the outcry, a group of Massachusetts lawmakers, led by Senator Ed Markey, blasted the shipments and called on the federalgovernment to stop them.

From the post from the Boston Globe and well worth a read Our Russian ‘pipeline,’ and its ugly toll

Better yet, the Jones Act precludes Americans helping out other Americans:

The U.S. has several LNG export facilities that are already operational or will come online in the coming years. Why can’t we ship American LNG to Boston?

One reason is an antiquated federal law from 1920 – the Jones Act – that prohibits cargoes from being transported between U.S. ports unless they are carried on American-flagged ships.

The stupid thing:

There are about 150,000 miles of oil pipelines and more than 1.5 million miles of natural gas pipelines in theUnited States. ALREADY! 

The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently announced that in 2017, for the first time since 1957, the U.S. exported more natural gas than it imported. But this stopped with Biden.

Feb 5, 2024 — President Biden’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export ban puts politics over people. It jeopardizes the American economy and our energy security.

Yet, even as we become a global energy superpower, political barriers prevent us from maximizing the benefits of the shale revolution.

New England — located just a few hundred miles from the Marcellus Shale, one of the world’s largest natural gas fields — was forced to import a cargo of Russian liquefied natural gas. This was necessary because anti-energy activists have convinced local elected leaders to block new energy infrastructure, including pipelines that could bring American gas to the region. This is making households in the Northeast more dependent on imported energy, and forcing them to pay among the highest energy bills in the country. More at Washington Examiner

Here are a couple of sites where one can find out pipeline locations down to the county.

National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS) Public Viewer – Interactive

NPMS Public Viewer (.gov)https://pvnpms.phmsa.dot.gov › PublicViewer

The National Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS) Public Viewer from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration allows users to view pipelines and related information by individual county for the entire United States. The map includes: Gas and hazardous liquid pipelines.

President Trump can drill baby drill all he wants but if voters of these Democrat states are determined to stop progress they shall reap their reward.

Here is the punctuation tweet.

The worst of the swamp.

https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical…/interactive-map-pipelines-united-states
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New York Hochul Signs Bill Fining Oil and Gas Companies $75 Billion to Pay for Climate Damage

December 27, 2024 — bunkerville

If anyone had started thinking maybe New York State and City were getting some sense, fear not. The latest holiday signing of bills passed by Governor Hochul will not bring much merriment to the oil and gas industries. Vermont signed a similar bill last summer. A So called “Super Fund.”

“With nearly every record rainfall, heatwave, and coastal storm, New Yorkers are increasingly burdened with billions of dollars in health, safety, and environmental consequences due to polluters that have historically harmed our environment,” Governor Hochul said. “Establishing the Climate Superfund is the latest example of my administration taking action to hold polluters responsible for the damage done to our environment and requiring major investments in infrastructure and other projects critical to protecting our communities and economy.”

The Marxist bill was carried by Democrat Senator Liz Krueger and Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz.

“The Climate Change Superfund Act is now law, and New York has fired a shot that will be heard round the world: the companies most responsible for the climate crisis will be held accountable,” said Senator Krueger.

Reuters reported

New York state will fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate under a bill Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law on Thursday.

The law is intended to shift some of the recovery and adaptation costs of climate change from individual taxpayers to oil, gas and coal companies that the law says are liable. The money raised will be spent on mitigating the impacts of climate change, including adapting roads, transit, water and sewage systems, buildings and other infrastructure.

Fossil fuel companies will be fined based on the amount of greenhouse gases they released into the atmosphere between 2000 and 2018, to be paid into a Climate Superfund beginning in 2028. It will apply to any company that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation determines is responsible for more than 1 billion tons of global greenhouse gas emissions.

New York becomes the second state to pass such a law after Vermont passed its own version this summer. The laws are modeled after existing state and federal superfund laws that require polluters to pay to clean up toxic waste.

More can be found at Gateway Pundit

And she is not done either. If every state believed as New York, we would still be driving the horse and buggy.

Hochul signs bill banning CO2 fracking also.

 
 

This reminded me of an earlier boondoggle reported by Bunk. Here is part of it:

New York City cuts 1,000 trees to raise park 8-10 feet to address panic over 3mm sea level rise.

December 29, 2021

All for the mere sum of $1.45 Billion to start. De Blasio claims it’s the first project such as this done in the world. “Coastal Resiliency” is the new term for boondoggles that plunder the treasury in the name of climate change. East River Park is the lucky recipient of this destruction. No millionaires living here in the East River Park area. It is no Central park. But for these folks, it was their little piece of heaven. No second homes for them to escape the city.

East River Park Org:

New York City is demolishing our big, beloved park on the unwealthy side of the Lower East Side and East Village. Everything must go–shady lawns, picnic areas, ballfields, running track, amphitheater, the compost yard, historic buildings, and 1,000 trees, most 82 years old and healthy.

The city is going ahead with the massively destructive ESCR–East Side Coastal Resiliency project–even though there are alternatives that could preserve much of our park and provide flood control.

Under the current plan, the city will build a 1.2 mile wall along the water and cover the razed park with eight feet of fill. Eventually a new park will be built on top of this levee.

Life in the big city. The best of the swamp

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Senator John Fetterman on Fracking ‘They’re Eating Dogs and Cats’

September 23, 2024 — bunkerville

In a once in a lifetime interview with John Fetterman, the interviewer decided to put  Fetterman’s feet to the fire regarding a whole host of unpleasant topics. None of the questions could have been any finer that the question on fracking in Pennsylvania.

PA Sen. John Fetterman  joined Meet the Press –

Things went south for Fetterman when he was hit with some surprisingly tough questions from Welker on fracking. Welker started by noting Kamala Harris’s long history of supporting a ban on fracking, going back to her days as California Attorney General when she sued the Obama regime over it and asked why people should trust Harris now.

Instead of answering directly, Fetterman said that it was “strange” they were talking about fracking at all and started rambling about a series of issues not remotely related to the question at hand.

To Welker’s credit, she refused to let Fetterman off the hook and brought up his own flip-flop from supporting a ban on fracking before suddenly backing it just before he decided to run for Senate in 2022. Once again, Fetterman refused to answer, calling it a “gotcha” question, laughably taking Harris at her current word on fracking and bragging about his win over Dr. Oz in the Senate election.

At 5:17 we get into the good stuff on fracking.

So that is the best of the swamp today.

H/T: Gateway Pundit

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Wacko Greenies Suing to Shut Down Power Plant Producing 9 Percent of California Energy

April 8, 2024 — bunkerville

Almost ten percent of California’s energy comes from the last remaining Nuclear power plant, so let’s close it down since  “This is in a state where, according to EnergySage, residents already pay an average of $3,060 a year on their electricity bill — 34 percent higher than the national average.”

Let’s do it after a couple of Billion buckeroos have been spent on it to extend the life 5 years. Typical California where surly a friendly judge will be more than happy to go along with the thought to jettison the plant. Here are the details:

The Associated Press, an environmentalist group called Friends of the Earth is suing the U.S. Department of Energy over its decision to award funds to keep California’s last remaining nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, open.

The DOE awarded $1 billion to keep the plant open past its planned 2025 closure date after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said shuttering Diablo Canyon, which provides 9 percent of the state’s power, would leave California vulnerable to blackouts, according to regional conservative outlet The Center Square.

“As we experienced during the record heat wave last September, climate change-driven extreme events are causing unprecedented stress on our power grid — the Diablo Canyon Power Plant is important to support energy reliability as we accelerate progress towards achieving our clean energy and climate goals,” Newsom said in a 2023 statement.

In 2022, Newsom signed a bill to allocate $1.4 billion in loans to keep Diablo Canyon, located in San Luis Obispo, to extend its service life to 2030.

“Climate change is causing unprecedented stress on California’s energy system and I appreciate the Legislature’s action to maintain energy reliability as the state accelerates the transition to clean energy,” Newsom said at the time.

The move came after the state announced earlier in the year that it would ban sales of gas-powered cars by 2035; just days afterwards the California Independent System Operator, the non-profit organization which manages most of California’s energy grid, put the Golden State on notice that the stress charging electric vehicles would put on the grid would simply be too much to close a source of reliable, carbon-free energy generation.

CISO pleaded with EV owners to not charge their cars during “flex alerts” because it was “likely to strain the grid with increased energy demands, especially over the [Labor Day] holiday weekend.”

In January, the Biden administration chipped in $1.1 billion to extend the plant’s service life. So, naturally, the environmentalists sued, because reality doesn’t have to matter when you’re a privileged ideologue.

Keep reading.

So let’s do the math. They are spending billions to keep the power plant open just to 2030?? The DOE on behalf of all Americans dumped $1 Billion into it. Newsom in 2022 authorized $1.4 Billion in loans. Add that Californians are paying some of the highest energy costs?

And in the bigger picture, recall when Bunk here offered this post back in 2022?

Biden Shuts Down 2 Nuclear Power Plants, 4 Hydroelectric Dams, 1 Refinery

Shutting down oil, coal and gas? Just getting started. One refinery in the Virgin Islands, Limetree Bay Refinery. Nuclear? Turkey Point outside of Miami. Peach Bottom in Pennsylvania. Four Hydroelectric dams in Southern Oregon and Northern California – The Klamath River Dams. The indications from the agencies are they are just getting started.

Add that to Biden’s yanking 77 small refineries biofuel waivers that now put them at risk for bankruptcy.

This clip was from September 2022:

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant operations extended through 2030 by California Lawmakers

The very best of the swamp today.

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Biden Considering Releasing More Oil From Strategic Oil Reserves

April 4, 2024 — bunkerville

 

“If pump prices keep rising, the Biden administration will shift gears and reconsider SPR releases, though we current do not think they are imminent.” Remember when the Biden admin said it would refill the SPR? Meanwhile Gold reached record highs yesterday for the fifth straight day.

So not only are we not going to refill the strategic oil reserve, Biden will no doubt release more of it as oil heads toward $100 dollars a barrel. Craven self-interest comes to mind in the Dems never ending battle to some way some how to win in November.

This statement alone should prove that Biden and his henchmen have little concern over the welfare of the Nation as the drums of war beat across the world, in no small part due to Biden’s ineptness.

Zero Hedge:

According to Bloomberg, Biden’s Energy Department said it was “keeping the taxpayer’s interest at the forefront” in its decision not to purchase as many as 3 million barrels of oil for a Strategic Petroleum Reserve site in Louisiana. The plan for the barrels to be delivered in August and September had been announced in mid-March. It has now been canceled meaning that the already dismal rate of SPR refill will now flatline for the foreseeable future, at least until the NBER admits the US is in a recession.

The Energy Department has been slowly refilling the emergency oil supply after it reached a 40-year-low following the administration’s unprecedented drawdown of a record 180 million barrels in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It currently holds about 363 million barrels, according to Energy Department data, down from almost 600 million at the start of 2022.

And just like that anyone hoping that Biden would add more than a few drops to the SPR can stop holding their breath: “Domestic crude prices are likely to remain too high for the remainder of the year for DOE to resume its refilling program,” said Bob McNally, president of consultant Rapidan Energy Group and a former adviser to President George W. Bush.

Ironically, Biden’s White House handlers didn’t listen to either the right, or the wrong call. And now they have $100 oil to deal with and the elections are 7 months away: good luck explaining the coming decision to drain another 60 million barrels in SPR oil in the next few weeks as a “national emergency” although we are certain they will try.

 

Strategic Petroleum Reserve will become a live issue for Biden this summer, says RBC’s Croft

Helima Croft, RBC Capital Markets global head of commodity strategy, joins ‘Squawk on the Street’ to discuss the situation in Damascus relative to oil prices, how the Strategic Petroleum Reserve will be used, and more.

 

Let us not forget as was posted yesterday as Ukraine targets Russian oil refinieries.

Bonus: The news yesterday?

Gold Closes At Record High For 5th Straight Day, Dollar Dumps As Bond Bloodbath Stalls

 

The best of the swamp.

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Congress to Close and Empty Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve in Latest Budget Bill

March 4, 2024 — bunkerville

As congress bickers over that last give aways in the latest budget bill, this gem appears contrived. For what purpose?

In the scenario of the mega bill why this? One has to wonder whose long fingers were the creators of this gem. A million barrel reserve isn’t much, so what is the deal? This is one to follow the money….and authorship. 

The Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve, established in 2014 after Hurricane Sandy, is a one million barrel emergency reserve to provide supplemental supplies for a few days in the event of a hurricane or other disruption. However, the fiscal 2024 government funding legislation requires the reserve to be sold and closed. The writer of this nonsense even took the time to insert in the bill language to make sure it’s almost impossible for Trump to reopen it or create another reserve.

 

Zero Hedge:

On Sunday night, Congressional negotiators revealed a bill which will fund key parts of the government through the rest of the fiscal year which began in October.

According to Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s office, the bill “maintains the aggressive investments Democrats secured for American families, American workers, and America’s national defense.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement that “House Republicans secured key conservative policy victories, rejected left-wing proposals, and imposed sharp cuts to agencies and programs critical to the President Biden’s agenda.”

But what neither of them mention is that the bill also nukes the entire Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve – which, at roughly 1 million barrels, is too small to matter on a national scale – but which could serve as a critical cache of energy in the event of another major disaster.

The entire US 1 million barrel Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve will be required to be sold and closed in fiscal 2024, according to bill text of government funding legislation unveiled Sunday Did China write this bill? docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/

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Is there any logical explanation?

Let’s make the Northeast as vulnerable as possible?

This means the Northeast will lose a crucial buffer that could have provided supplemental supplies during disruptions. According to the Energy Information Administration, the Northeast region (New England and the Middle Atlantic) consumed an average of 5.8 million barrels of gasoline per day in 2023. The Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve’s one million barrels would have only provided a small portion of the daily consumption in the region. Losing this reserve may increase the vulnerability of the Northeast to disruptions from hurricanes or other events.

Another thought?

They’re depleting the reserves and requiring Congressional approval to refill them so Dems in Congress can prevent Trump from refilling them, then blame him for the crisis they intentionally created. It’s all so blatant and obvious now.

Not just sell it, they then have to close the entire reserve infrastructure it looks like, and never open one again.

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Then, the bill makes it even harder to establish regional reserves in the future – requiring several new layers of red tape. 

And the SPR is currently the lowest it’s been since the mid 80s

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Rounding out the absurdity of this whole thing, let’s hear from another government savant. This was from a year ago:

We live only for the day apparently.

Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan Wants To Drain The Northeast’s “Heating Fuel Reserve”

They will tell us it’s just the way the sausage is made… paging Speaker Johnson? Johnson???? As Nancy said, “we have to pass the bill to find what is inside it.” I am sure there will be more to be found.

The very best of the swamp

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United States and its Bizarre Energy Policies – Now Bans Nat Gas Exports

January 30, 2024 — bunkerville

John Kerry Told The Washington Post He Wants To Remove 1.6 Trillion Tons Of Carbon Dioxide From The Atmosphere Via Direct Air Capture Estimated Cost For Tax Payers: $1.6 Quadrillion Dollars That’s $1,600,000,000,000,000 (This isn’t a joke, he’s serious) “The lowest periods of carbon in the atmosphere and not only recorded history, in the history of life existing on the planet.

Just in: Can Biden get any dumber?

The Biden Administration on Jan. 26, 2024, announced that the U.S. would pause pending decisions on permits to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to non-free trade agreement countries until the U.S. Department of Energy can update the underlying analyses for authorizations.

Tucker at his best at the absurdity of it all.

Tucker talks energy. Some cartoons were inserted in the interview, apparently the video lifted from somewhere. This is the only copy I could find. 

So in summation, the world continues on. The United states continues to play the Chump Card. Just for laughs and giggles. 

China is, by a very wide margin, the world’s largest consumer of coal. China’s consumption of coal exploded after 1999 and has more than tripled through 2023.

India has expanded its consumption of coal much more slowly over the decades covered in the data, but has more than quadrupled its consumption since 1996. Although its population has grown to exceed that of China, India recorded a little over 26% of China’s total consumption of coal in 2023.

The United States is historically the world’s largest consumer of coal, but the nation has greatly reduced its consumption since it peaked in 2005. In 2023, U.S. annual coal consumption has dropped by 70% from that peak.

Worldwide Coal Consumption, Exajoules Consumed from 1965 through 2023

Read more at Political Calculations

Other than that…the swamp continues.

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Why the Capacity of Charging EV’s is Simply a Myth

January 18, 2024 — bunkerville

No doubt by now most folks have heard about the sad fact that EV’s just can’t manage the super cold periods at all. Now we learn that charging stations can suffer the same fate and simply don’t work. Then let’s consider the strain on our grid to charge these beasts.

Electric vehicle (EV) drivers in the Chicago area have recently struggled to charge their vehicles amid frigid temperatures, contradicting the assertions of some EV proponents suggesting that fears about performance in inclement conditions are overblown.

Dozens of EV drivers reportedly lined up at EV charging stations to juice up their vehicles in Oak Brook, Illinois, but the bitter cold that has blanketed the area made that task effectively impossible, according to Fox 32, a local media outlet. Several organizations that promote EVs — a product which the Biden administration is pushing aggressively as part of its climate agenda — have previously suggested that concerns over diminished EV and battery performance in cold weather are inflated, but the experiences of drivers in Oak Brook seem to belie that notion. Source

Beside the cold weather, alarms have been sounded regarding the fact we simply don’t have the infrastructure to support them.

Here is one of the simplest and easiest to understand reasons why our grid cannot possibly manage charging these cars. They think we can charge busses and trucks too? I suggest showing this clip in about the fifth grade in school and then move on into the colleges. Nothing like a visual.

The man knows how to do the math.

Just something to think about as we enjoy these frigid temps in much of the country.

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