Posted on 08/12/2011 5:40:01 PM PDT by PROCON
WASHINGTON — As 58 million people across 13 states sweated through the third day of a heat wave last month, power demand in North America’s largest regional grid jurisdiction hit a record high. And yet there was no shortage, no rolling blackout and no brownout in an area that stretches from Maryland to Chicago.
But that may not be the case in the future as stricter air quality rules are put in place. Eastern utilities satisfied demand that day — July 21 — with hefty output from dozens of 1950s and 1960s coal-burning power plants that dump prodigious amounts of acid gases, soot, mercury and arsenic into the air. Because of new Environmental Protection Agency rules, and some yet to be written, many of those plants are expected to close in coming years.
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How's that Hope & Change treating you?
Hope and Change Ping!
Yep all of those coal fired plants being closed here light the east coast and I do not think our new governor will allow our electric to be cut in favor of the cities.
He’ll attempt this after the next election. I don’t see him trying this with an election coming up, but it needs to be an issue. There are so many things that NEED to be an issue in a campaign that this punk needs to answer for.
NY Times slant is hefty.
If the left would have allowed more modern coal plants to be built at a reasonable cost, then they wouldn’t have older plants to complain about.
This is NOW with the EPA, a total unregulated entity!
Get used to this 0bama crap, it is coming everyday!
seems to be an other Democrat circular firing squad...
If they think it’s bad now, and worse when these plants shut down; wait until there are 80 million electric cars plugged into the grid in the NY, NJ, CT metro area.
If the GOP had a brain they would play it like this. EPA policies cut off air conditioning to heat stressed elderly. They should point out how much citizens electric bills have gone up just in the past decade because of the EPA. Most of all they should point out that up into the early 1960's many homes and most commercial buildings were heated by coal and the world did not end.
They should do the same on oil. Make it a campaign issue how much EPA policies have driven up domestic oil prices and made us foreign dependent on oil. Shout it in the streets the death trap vehicles have become to obtain required EPA fuel and emissions standards. Stop letting the EPA write their own federal regulations at the whim of some environmental extremist idiots.
It’s the EPA that is going to cause them.
Yeah, they’ll be mad at Big Power, after the likes of Schumer, Bloomberg, Nadler, Obama, and the rest tell them it’s Big Power’s Fault.
Democrats want old people not to have power to run their air conditioners and medical devices. They, in short, want them all to die. /liberal argument framing
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I'd say it's riding the fine line between slant and slander.
Those 1950’s and 1960’s power plants have been continually upgraded to modern specifications to met efficiency and EPA stack emission regulations.
The big difference is that the EPA is arbitrarily tightening the standards to intentionally put the plants out of business or artificially limit their output
Absolutely!
Big Power, Big Oil, Big Pharmeceutical, Big this, Big that, the sheeple will comply and pay the higher rates, until they can't pay anymore and then we'll be like Europe, riots in the streets, but we have the 2nd Ammendment too, that'll be the only thing that saves us.
I'm sad that it's come to this...but ready too...
This crap cost Governor Davis his job in California; people were sick of living in a third-world country with rolling blackouts.
It will have the same effect here in the East.
“Democrats want old people not to have power to run their air conditioners and medical devices. They, in short, want them all to die.”
: )
I like that.
As long as they shut down Chicago Metro and NYC Metro the rest of us will be OK.
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