...it is about funneling your money to government/socialist-sanctioned monopolists.
This whole energy thing is a crock of you know what.
Then when the subsidies run out and the maintenance stops, we will have a bunch of windmills twisting in the wind, not producing power and becoming eyesores.
The only way out of it is to break the monopoly. Americans need to get off the grid.
I know of some people (ahem) who have stored up enough of the “old” lightbulbs to last them the rest of their lives............
To cite one, specifically, GENERAL ELECTRIC.
New way to reward your contributors....pass a law against their competitors' products.
Heh.
Indeed Ford may have stopped producing the Mercury but GE has not.
It never is. Government and it’s monopoly-regulated monopolies always have a reason to raise rates no matter what, in this case - energy. No matter if you conserve and use less, use the same, or use more:
Use less: We need to raise rates because we have fixed costs but people are using less and therefore our power earnings are lower.
Use the same: Upgrade costs, maintenance costs, planning for the future increases, we need a rate increase.
Use more: demand has grown, really need new plants, upgrade capacity at existing plants, we need a rate increase.
No matter what happens they just trot out whatever excuses work at the moment. If you conserve and expect to save money, forget it. The only good thing is that it might help keep your bills staying closer to the same, because you are using less energy which can offset some of the rate increases.
If South Carolina starts producing incandescents (for their use only, don’t you know), I’m sure there will be some product ‘leakage’ out of the state. I say this thinking of buying a horse trailer.