A huge heat wave is predicted for the upper Midwest this week with heat indices of 120 degrees. How many people would die due to lack of air conditioning if we had electric prices like this?
Obama: "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs!"
In a deregulated/privatized market like Australia or Texas, this is the way it works.
It has been brutally cold in Australia and all the natural gas is being sucked up for heating, leaving shortages for the electricity generators.
Here is an article from Australia which is more accurate than the above article.
At least that would make Algore happy. His ilk want us to starve in the hot sticky dark.
Alright. I’m going backpacking in North Carolina next week. I hope its still warm.
It’s uncomfortable, but normally healthy people can live and even thrive without AC. Babies, elderly and unhealthy, not so much, but the rest of us aren’t the wilting flowers that many claim us to be.
Dying from heat is unacceptable if it is caused by AGW but ok if it is in the name of Green Energy.
Dying from cold is unacceptable if your homeless or need an EBT card but ok if the alternative is coal generated heat.
Dying from all sorts of pestilence is unacceptable if you have a rascist landlord but acceptable if he does not use DDT.
Dying from hunger is unacceptable if you only 30% above the poverty line but acceptable if means no herbicides, pesticides, or gmos.
See the goal of the Greens is less humans, less consumption, less resources. Unless you are part of the ruling class.