Posted on 07/18/2023 10:59:27 PM PDT by CFW
“The bigger problem (by far) is that these know-nothing unelected political hack regulators think that they can lord over us.”
They’re like a cabal of Barney Fifes. They get a little bit of power and it goes to their equally little heads. They’re the ones that would be squealing “we ver just following orders” if or when justice is ever handed out to them.
I live with 60 amps and everything is electric, not exactly the specs for Thanksgiving dinner in winter while taking showers.
That she is.
Except she doesn’t know how to even set up an electric stove.
AOC-level brain power. Biden Administration on display.
She is a chemistry professor. Wouldn’t know much about things like actual real world applications of government dictates. .
We have a 1,600 sq ft 1952 ranch house that came with a 40 amp panel! Imagine the fun that caused. About ten years ago, we finally did some remodeling and upgraded to (I think) 300 amps. Maybe 400 for future-proofing.
The utility had to drop new conductors from the pole to the house, we needed a new mast, a new panel, all new breakers, as well as revamping a lot of the tired old wiring in the house and LOTS of new circuits to meet regs. We went from four circuits to 20.
People talk about keeping government out of our bedrooms, and rightly so. How about keeping it out of our kitchens as well? And our bathrooms and garages. And keeps its hands off out thermostats. If the government reaches that far into our daily lives, that is, at best, authoritarianism.
And that's in Alabama, where heating an all-electric home in the winter isn't nearly as taxing as it would be up north (again while charging an EV if the Dims get their way in making everybody switch to EV's). And of course, that's while doing other things too (perhaps at that point in time not only was my home heater running and my EV was charging, but my wife and I may have also been cooking with our electric stove, perhaps my hybrid water heater was also running, and lights, etc.). The grid simply can't handle all of that if everybody was all-electric. Especially if they don't also go solar and produce most of the electricity they need (which I do, but about 20% of my power has to be pulled from the grid, so even I am an example of how the grid can't handle all of us going all-electric even if everybody lived in a good place for home solar like I do).
It’s no surprise about anybody in the Biden administration they all get instructions from the puppet master party bosses.
Sucking up goes a long way in D.C..
WHAT guarantee is there that your local power company can provide ALL customers with such????
She has passed ‘The Peter Principle” of advancement
So, why aren’t those who wish to bring about restrictive regulation required to learn the details of what their regulation would require? I’m only high school educated, but know enough about what what changing from gas to electric appliances would require. Some things are better operated by one system than the other & here is where common sense should rule, not some uneducated government bureaucrat. Personally, I have both in my home, dictated by what works better within certain circumstances. If only the people in our government were hired,appointed, or elected to serve was someone who knew what he or she were doing, it would be a huge help.
How much more stupidity will Americans tolerate.
Well, America has become a masterful admixture of arrogance and stupidity, so….
“How much more stupidity will Americans tolerate.”
I started asking that question a couple of decades ago. When Obama was elected I looked around as everyone exclaimed over his “wonderfulness” and realized that the majority of the people in our nation are blinded to reality.
I was on the Montrose El Platform in Chicago following the election thinking the same thing.
Good point. And it certainly occurred to me. How can an electric utility suddenly double their ampacity to every customer?
Start at the power plant and so on down the chain. Not doable. The real environmental damage would never be offset or recouped.
Radio broadcaster Kyle Sandilands has unleashed on Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews as he moves to ban all new homes in the state from using gas.
“You can heat your food on an electric stovetop but if you want to create food-as-art, you need gas.”
There’s a 0.001% argument. lol
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