Talk about being clueless
Luddites loose in La-La land
The price of oil is likely to hit 150 dollars (Canadian, US) a barrel by 2010 and soar to 225 dollars a barrel by 2012 as supply becomes increasingly tight, a Canadian bank said Thursday. (April 24th) [snip]
Electricity and heat production in the Northeast derives from oil for the most part. In Vermont, there are no oil or coal plants; however, we have a clean energy producer in Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. The other energy source, a contract with Hydro Quebec, which proved to be a bad indenture, is defunct in 2009. Whether it is renewed or not, indubitably it will not be at current rates.
This chart comes from a Green Mountain Power bill insert.
Instead of embracing nuclear power as a means of insuring clean energy, the Vermont house:
MONTPELIER — The House voted 81-58 Wednesday for a bill that would require new corporate owners of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to guarantee more money is available to dismantle the plant when the time comes.
Senate President Pro Tempore Peter Shumlin, D-Windham, agitated in the Senate to require Entergy (Vermont Yankee owners) to deposit the money to clean up the site now.
This response came from corporate spokesmen.
Vermont Yankee officials, meanwhile, provided fuel for a possible veto by saying that if the bill passes they would likely sell or shut down the Vernon nuclear power plant because it would no longer make sense financially to include it in the new corporate spinoff. That could make the plant more expensive to run as a lone unit and raise the cost of the electricity it produces, he said.
The Luddite fascists in Vermont want the plant closed yesterday regardless of cost to the ratepayers. Money set aside at interest by Entergy, is sufficient to decommission and clean up the site. If this shutdown occurs, average monthly electric bills will go from $100/mo. to $200, maybe $250/mo.
Welcome to socialist economics, these idiots wish to festoon the mountainsides with wind turbines. The cost of electricity will enforce conservation, the desired goal; no other idea makes any sense. And they cannot tell from where the replacement power will come.
Vermont will be a microcosm of a Democrat controlled country if Yobama is elected. Clinton will be just as bad.
Archived in: Enviro-Nazis, Luddites, Progressives, VermontMay 4, 2008 at 1:26 pm | Trackback
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People only need look at states like Vermont and cities like San Francisco to know that liberalism doesn’t work. With liberals running the show with virtually no accountability in both places, they should be little utopias by now. Crime-free, low-rent, no poverty…instead, in SF, we have rampant homelessness, crime is skyrocketing, there is total lawlessness on so many levels. Anyone with a brain should be able to look at areas like these as pilot projects for liberal ideas and see (ding ding ding!) that those ideas DON’T WORK.
Google “Connecticut Yankee Power Plant” and you’ll find the future for the Vermont Yankee. The CT Yankee shut down after forty years in my former town. The bottom dropped from the tax base because the town refused serious development of any kind during the lifespan of the plant. We were The Town that Time Forgot until the plant closed; now they seem to be trying to close the money gap with residential development, which eventually costs more than business development.
But that’s a byproduct. The Plant was a sore spot for The Greens here, and even the decommissioning was delayed and impeded by the same people.
BTW, there’s a bill being prepared for CT’s General Assembly which would “prohibit specualtion in the oil market”. Yup, that’ll do it. Same kind of loons in control here as in Vermont, with the same fantasy life.
Outnumbered is in the belly of the beast, too.
That side of Vermont cannot get any serious business ensconced since NH is right there with no sales tax. The Brattleboro Home Depot is closing with the job and tax loss hitting them in the face.
The blindness by which these fools stumble around at some time one would think they bump into reality at least occasionally.
If they succeed in closing the plant, Vermont will lose it’s business tax base, starting with IBM. THAT will give them a wedgie from which the state won’t recover.
Well I lived in VT for 10 years when going to school.
Beautiful state. Taken over by the Bernie Saunders party. They are socialist! So my advice to VT is the same to Maine.
1 elect new folks that are not brain dead
2 Move to NH(where I live) make it quick since the folks from Mass have taken over the southern part of the state and we now have a Demo Control state.
3 If one and two are not ok then just sit back and let it happen. You must want it to be that way.
It will be very interesting in a couple of years when the Progs decide to ban (for at least the non-important people) the wood burning stoves and furnaces that folks have turned to to keep warm during the winter.
I hope by that time I’m out of this sick, dying region and in a better (non-liebral) part of the country.
The Norhteast is in decline, Bryan. The native age 24 - 38 demographic is declining in all states here, with population stabilization in CT and Mass due to illegals. A big shift is underway.
I just sent a comment which for some reason did not show up as per usual, in this case, right after Hotspur’s #6 so I will try once again. Hopefully it won’t appear twice!…..
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N’Englandah’s, but most importantly Mainers,
Please take a look at what still survives after another Downeast winter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edexj5vsBaY
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v8299657axTJ6QXJ