Over 80 million people voted for this, it’s a small price to pay for no more mean tweets by a bad orange man in the White House.
Hey! You need some way to pay for all that free stuff.
Keep voting Democrat for high energy prices, hordes of immigrants sucking up tax dollars, increasing crime and pillaging, higher inflation and a government that is growing so large it is frightening.
Here in NH, in 2019, I spent $1455 for a year’s worth of electricity. This year, I have already spent $2154, with 3 months left to go. I’m projecting $2939 for the entire year.
I live in PA where residents can choose both their electric and natural gas suppliers. The 'PA Electric Choice' program was enacted by republican governor Tom Ridge in 1997. The 'PA Gas Choice' program came later.
I have saved hundreds of dollars over the years by having the freedom to choose my electric and gas suppliers. Something most democrats don't understand, "fair unfettered competition works - if we let it."
Well Blue State voters all wanted to “save the planet”. This is the price tag. They got what they wanted.
And yet, when the CPI figure is released, it excludes those “volatile energy and food sectors” as if nobody uses energy and eats. WHO BELIEVES ANY OF THIS???!!! After having this BS shoved up everyone’s a$$ since Jan, 2021, if there isn’t a HUGE electoral reversal come Nov, 2024, this country is finished.
The average residential electricity rate in Massachusetts is 14.91¢/kWhr, which is higher than the national average of 11.88¢/kWh1. However, some sources may report a higher average rate of 32 ¢/kWhr, which may include other factors such as taxes, fees, and delivery charges. The average electricity consumption per month in Massachusetts is 779 kWh, which translates to about $116.18 at the lower rate or $249.28 at the higher rate.
Going to be very expensive to charge those electric cars in blue states. Oh well, EV owners can take the bus if they need to go somewhere. Keep voting Democrat.
Karma!
green takes a lot of green
no worries
govt to the rescue with a govt solution to a govt created problem
energy credits to offset the outrageous utility bills
now everyone is on welfare
Meanwhile, our Deep State exports record amounts of our energy.
What’s even more insidious are the red states which allow their counties to provide electricity through any outside utility they wish. In Florida there is not one utility providing power to the state as a whole.
In Pinellas, Pasco, Polk and Hillsborough Counties, Tampa Electric is the monopoly provider. It serves no other Florida counties.
In turn, Tampa Electric was bought out several years ago by a Canadian utility company, EMERA, which got caught with its pants down in Nova Scotia, the province where it is located, by regulatory authorities for overcharging customers on their electric bills.
The Nova Scotia Legislature then passed Bill 212 in response, after fining EMERA hundreds of thousands of dollars. The new law placed a cap on rate increases. This in turn caused EMERA to seek a utility company to purchase where they could invest their capital and where they would not be subject to what it calls “regulatory override”.
So guess who they found. The US SEC approved EMERA’s purchase of Tampa Electric. All Tampa Electric shareholders including the thousands of its pole-climbers who had employee stock options linked to their 401-k’s were paid fifty-five dollars per share for stock which was trading at the time for around twenty bucks.
Nobody pursued any possible insider trading violations against anyone. The deal was kept secret up to the last minute. For over two years no one knew who the new suitor was going to be. Tampa’s mayor didn’t even know until it was in the papers after the fact.
Bottom line: Our electric bill went from average $160 per month in 2022 to over $320 per month in 2023. When you call TECO for help you get a goddamn robot. There is no customer service and you cannot even get a due date change if your life depended on it.
They tell you in your bill the increase in rates is a pass-through of increased costs to TECO for fuel it uses to generate the power they sell you.
And then they tell you the current bill is paying down only the increase in fuel costs from the previous year, not even the current year.
Wow. Just wow.
And you all want Meatball in the White House, am I right?
I don’t know if the Trenton Channel plant is idle downriver, but I don’t think I’ve seen anything coming from its chimneys in the past couple of years. I believe it’s a coal plant down near Monroe that still active.
California rates are also skyrocketing too rates went up 23% Edison asked people not to use A/Cs until 9:00pm rates from 5:00pm to 9:00pm can double.
Oh yeah no charging EV’s until after 9:00pm
Could the rise in costs also have to do with doing what is necessary to update aging systems, plants, and equipment? I don’t think such expenses can be avoided. The power companies may have even been mandated to do so. But are probably most difficult to meet in cities where a great many occupants fail to see any reason to pay for electricity. That means the cost is divided among fewer customers. Lucky honest guy!!!
Remember too that (AFAIK) disconnecting power for non payment is illegal during certain times of the year in some places. So the power company just has to eat that expense.
I am pretty sure the solution offered by more than a few politicians and community activists will be to put power companies under government ownership. That will go just as you would expect.
Oregon is as blue as the sky, but comes in at #39.
It’s one of the few areas where current inflation rates are almost unnoticeable....... for now......it won’t hold up.
“Consistent with EPA’s traditional approach to establishing pollution standards for power plants under section 111 of the Clean Air Act, the proposed standards are based on technologies such as
carbon capture and sequestration/storage (CCS)
low-GHG hydrogen co-firing”
“Base load affected facilities that follow the CCS pathway must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2, using CCS, by 2035”
“Baseload affected facilities that follow the low-GHG hydrogen pathway must meet a second phase standard based on co-firing 30% low-GHG hydrogen by volume by 2032 and a third phase standard based on cofiring 96% by volume low-GHG hydrogen by 2038”
The Republicans had two years in DC (2017,2018) to clean up the US Code so the US people would not get stomped on.
Imagine what your future electric bills are going to look like.
Florida Power & Light is going utility-scale solar in a big way.
With ERCOT in control of Texas electricity production, we might as well be a blue state.
This is a targeted agenda to incentivize blue voters to move to red states and then keep voting blue.