The following report is by the Trends Journal:
Resistance to building new gas pipelines in the liberal Northeast, along with the failure of so-called “green” technologies to provide any substantial increase in energy, has helped create the crisis.
As reported by grid.news, since 2000, New England has been aggressively moving away from oil and coal. In that time, use and reliance on natural gas has increased three-fold.
Energy from wind and solar and hydro, meanwhile, has resulted in just a four percent uptick in energy, from 8 to 12 percent.
Those policies are now colliding with a Russian-Ukraine conflict exacerbated by the Biden Administration’s hardline stance rejecting negotiations.
If you have a very cold day, or if you have any extended cold stretch of days, you have an issue of not having enough fuel to meet combined heating and electricity needs of the region.
There is limited infrastructure, and [there hasn’t] been much investment in supply infrastructure for a while.
Caitlin Marquis, a director at Advanced Energy Economy, commented about the looming problems, according to grid.news.
And what has NY Governor Kath Hochul been doing regarding natural gas supply and infrastructure in the region?
Kill it.
A June 2022 story at naturalgasintel.com reported how Hochul, in her first state of the state speech, announced plans to stop installing fossil fuel hookups in new construction across the state within five years, including natural gas hookups.
She promised legislation meant to phase out natural gas usage in New York, though the U.S. has one of the most plentiful supplies in the world.
Needless to say, Hochul has not been drawing up any plans to increase natural gas infrastructure or production.
But New England can blame itself as well. And with a general economic “dragflation” malaise also hitting consumers, it’s a perfect storm that may leave the region shuddering, sneezing and paying through the nose to try to keep warm.
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Late last year The WinePress reported that New York was planning on doing something similar to California, by prohibiting gas hookups in any new building constructed. Ultimately that motion was passed, according to Energy Live News.
[4] Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? [5] Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. [6] Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. [7] Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Haggai 1:4-7
All these stupid policies enacted by these scumbag politicians are coming to roost. This is why so many of them, namely the liberals and Democrats, are going to be forced out sooner or later, opening a pathway for a ton of Republicans and so many liberals squeaking their way in under the false pretense that they are a conservative.
But putting that aside, this is why I have been urging to take preemptive action earlier this year before the winter gets here and it’s too late to make additional preparations.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Got my propane tank filled to capacity, and did a test burn several months back just to make sure the heater still works. Also got a small portable solar generator kit for emergency lighting, communications, and tool battery recharging.
Still, wish I could have gotten my 800 watt-pannel solar generator system up this year, but there just wasn’t any room in the budget for it.