Posted on 11/17/2023 6:57:50 AM PST by george76
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That is about to multiply.
Our battery salesmen is going to whine about this article.
Must be stopped immediately! How dare the peons think they are allowed affordable energy!
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Their purpose for pushing/forcing everyone to electricity ... is NOT to save anyone $$$$....it’s all about CONTROL.
They can flip that switch off, any time. Harder with gas lines.
IMHO for those of us who live in the south where the winters aren't bad, the most inexpensive way to heat the home in the winter is with a variable speed heat pump combined with a gas furnace for the few times the weather is too cold for the heat pump.
government under Democrats:
baby murder - Ja!
gas stove - Nein!
Electricity now is natural gas piped through wires
LOL. I know who you mean!
The EPA will require CO2 capture or ‘green’ hydrogen to generate much of the electricity of the USA.
[[Households using electricity to heat homes are projected to pay $1,063 on average]]
Is this an average “just for” electric heat? Or an “average monthly electric bill payment”?
“Everyday things that people actually want are going to get more expensive or disappear, and the products that will be available will be more expensive but not better. People are going to wonder why life is worse.”
Yep. Recently bought a t-shirt at the hardware store. Of the same brand I’d purchased years back. Just threw it in the cart, thinking it’d be the same comfortable, long-wearing shirt. Nope. Once home, I noticed that it felt like sandpaper, and also felt kinda light. Huh. (Yes, should have been more careful when purchasing...). Finally weighed the damned thing: yep, lighter than the old one, even after the old one had been washed and dried dozens of times. Fabric was crap.
I looked up average for 2023 and it was right around 1000 kwh per household per month for all electric use, not just for heating.
Three years ago I replaced an 80% efficient gas furnace with a 96% plus efficient furnace. The big selling point was ROI being 3-5 years because of low gas prices and usage was being reduced. ROI = Save Money. Well, usage has decreased, and as a result thankfully monthly bill has not changed much. So today, ROI is effectively cost avoidance from high gas prices. Use less, pay the same.
THANKS to Biden and his administration’s STUPID policies gas prices negate ANY POSITIVE return from efficiency savings. However efficiency savings somewhat negate Biden’s STUPIDITY at least for now.
Could somebody, anybody, please show me where in that pesky constitution thingie, that anybody is given the right to regulate my fireplace?
Or my stove....
Or my automobile....
Or my hot water....
For what it's worth, my average kWh per month use is 1,729 over the past 12 months. That's with an all-electric 2,300 sq ft home in the south (use more power in the summer than in the winter). And it includes charging the EV for 16K miles in the past 12 months (1,300 miles per month, not counting charging about 1K miles per month away from home in the total 28K miles we drove it the past 12 months).
That's how much power we're looking at the grid needing per home if we went all-electric and all-EV. (I pull less power from the grid now than before I went all electric because I have home solar providing 80% of my power. But most people won't do that, for some it wouldn't be feasible. The numbers I gave above is not from my grid-pull, it's from how much my inverters report they put onto my electrical panels -- how much power my home needed regardless of how much of it came from solar or batteries or the grid.)
We have had a propane heater for a few years as backup to the electricity but last spring I had a larger propane tank installed. We will now use the propane for heat and the electric as backup. We can’t get natural gas. Too far out in the hills.
The propane is still cheaper than electric for heat and warmer too.
Don’t worry, the WEF and their acolytes (Schwab, Soros, Obama, Gates, etc) will take care of that.
My wood stove doesn’t have a thermostat but a few cords will last all winter.
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