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Currently, in the UK, there are 7 million people whose needs for electricity and heat have outstripped their ability to pay their utility bills. Currently, average amount owed to utilities is 706 pounds for electricity and 605 pounds for heating gas.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.thegwpf.com\/600000-britons-have-fallen-into-fuel-poverty-during-covid-pandemic\/<\/a><\/p>\n While this is partly related to the pandemic and the UK\u2019s Boris Johnson\u2019s inept governance of the UK as its Prime Minister, thanks to his ecohippie girlfriend pushing him in the direction of Da Stupid, these people who are unable to pay their utility bills should be getting governmental help but are not. This is inexcusable. We do, in this country, have plans in some states to help out people who are out of work and can’t pay their utility bills, but that is at the state and local level, not the federal government – as it should be. Boris’s nanny state is destroying much of what made the UK a good place to live and visit.<\/p>\n And here in the good ol\u2019 US of A, Joe da Biden wants to put all electrical utilities on wind and solar, both of which have proven to be completely unreliable. Just ask people in Germany about this, thanks to Angela Merkel\u2019s undoing a sound utility system and replacing it with wind and solar, which has to be replaced. She is now having to negotiate importing electricity from other countries.<\/p>\n And We the People will have to put up with it. Right? Right. \u00a0https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2020\/12\/20\/bidens-energy-plans-are-expensive-and-dangerous\/<\/a><\/p>\n While coal-fired plants do produce emissions, the current crop of coal-fired plants in this country use scrubbers in the stacks to clean up the emissions before they hit the atmosphere. The fly ash that is left over from coal-fired power production is used in construction, whether it is buildings or highways. Yes, there is a use for that stuff. It is not just drek, as noted here:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.thebalancesmb.com\/fly-ash-applications-844761<\/a><\/p>\n How may the nonsense going on in the UK affect us? Well, so far, I have not had to miss even a single payment on either of my electric or gas utility bills, nor do I expect that to happen very soon. But if the rates are increased drastically that will make it difficult for many people, including you and me, to even afford electricity, never mind heat and hot water.<\/p>\n Furthermore, because these two green (wind and solar) utilities are completely unreliable in fractious weather, outages are not uncommon. And those outages around here always seem to come in the middle of winter, when you need the utilities the most. This is what is going on now in the UK, and in Europe, and has been for several years.<\/p>\n While the WUWT article indicates that the goal date of 2035 is really not tenable, take a look at your electric bill and find out what is the real source of your electric supply. The storage banks to supply entire communities with reliable electricity, especially in the winter, have to encompass not just a few family farms, but rather entire cities like New York City and Chicago and Boston and their outlying areas such as suburbs and highways.<\/p>\n This is all supposed to be in the pursuit of \u201cclean air\u201d and less pollution, but I can\u2019t see that it has done anything in either Europe or the UK other than leave people cold in the winter and in the dark when they need lights the most \u2013 at night.<\/p>\n But this is why I have kept my great-grandmother\u2019s two 19th<\/sup> century kerosene lamps: when the power goes out, I still have a means of keeping the lights on. I may buy more, just in case. I have an older stove that is one I can light with kitchen matches, if the power goes out. This is because in stoves with convection ovens, if the electricity goes out, the gas valves will NOT open. My stove is not encumbered that way.<\/p>\n The proven fact, both in Europe and the UK, as well as here in the USA, is that wind turbines kill of necessary pest predators, meaning birds and bats. If you know anything about bats at all, you know that they live on flying insects that they catch while on the wing. The same is true of those bug-eating birds, going after insect pests that destroy crops and carry diseases, as well as rodents and other destructive, disease-carrying critters. The Audubon Society\u2019s last census of dead predator birds and bats in the western solar fields alone came to an amount over 3,500,000 birds and bats that are necessary to keep disease-carrying animals under control.<\/p>\n It’s more likely than not that this proposal mostly yak-yak-yakkity-yak from Biden, but you never know. The funding to do something like this is\u00a0 extremely costly and it does not take place overnight.\u00a0 So this is a warning more than anything else about this plan by Joey Biteme Biden, which may or may not meet fruition in his lifetime. He indicates he’ll have it all in place by 2035. Let’s hope he’s long gone sooner.<\/p>\n Civilization was fun while it lasted, wasn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"