The new data also show that a majority of U.S. counties remain
unconvinced that global warming is caused “mostly by human activities.”
Majorities in a whopping 2,717 of 3,143 counties (nearly 80 percent) disagree
with that sentiment, among them the liberal bastions of Brooklyn, New York, and
Prince George’s County, Maryland.
97% in US don’t believe scientists think global warming is
happening.
The new polling data show Americans seem unconvinced by
scientists in general, with majorities of 3,061 of 3,143 counties (more than 97
percent, including Mendocino County, California, and Bergen County, New Jersey)
disagreeing with the statement that “most scientists think global warming is
happening.”
63%
polled say CO2 is not a pollutant
In 2010,
Germany introduced Energiewende, or “energy transformation,” which is its plan
to increase electricity production from renewable sources to 80 percent by 2050
and to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent from 1990 levels. In
addition, Germany wants to phase out nuclear power by 2022. Prior to
Energiewende, the country had introduced other policies related to increasing
renewable energy production, such as the feed-in-tariff, that provided
lucrative subsidies to renewable technologies paid mostly by residential
customers. Due the feed-in tariff program supporting renewable energy,
residential electricity prices have more than doubled, from 18 cents per
kilowatt-hour in 2000 to more than 37 cents in 2013. The
feed-in-tariff subsidy program has cost more than $468 billion, and it is estimated
that program costs could exceed $1.3 trillion by the time it expires in 2015.
German consumers pay a surcharge on their monthly power bills that increased 18
percent on January 1, 2014, (more than a fivefold increase since 2009) to finance
renewable subsidies.[i]
Replacing
this power generation with wind and solar will disrupt grid reliability, risk
brownouts and blackouts, and bankrupt many businesses, families, and
communities. Coal-reliant states currently pay 8 to 9 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Their rates will likely go well beyond the 15 to 17 cents per kilowatt-hour
that families, hospitals, factories, schools, and businesses now pay in “green
energy” states such as California and Connecticut. They could skyrocket to the
36 to 40 cents that Germans and Danes are paying — or 70 to 80 cents when
taxpayer subsidies are included. The EPA claims more taxpayer-financed energy
subsidies will help the poorest families. What about everyone else? -
The
average retail cost of coal in Kentucky is 4.63 cents per kwh.
http://www.coaleducation.org/ky_coal_facts/electricity/average_cost.htm
Comments
The cost
of generating 1 kwh of electricity for coal and nuclear was 2 cents per kwh,
natural gas was 6 cents per kwh and wind and solar was 14 cents per kwh.
Obama has
done everything he could to increase the cost of coal and nuclear with
unnecessary regulations. Fracking developed
by oil exploration companies increased US natural gas production and resulted
in a decrease to 5 cents per kwh. Power
companies have already absorbed unnecessary regulatory costs and CO2 capture
will make our electric rates “skyrocket”.
All of this is happening very quietly.
American
consumers have been asleep at the switch.
If the EPA is able to steamroll over the Congress, we will have
electricity costs that are 5 times more than we have now in 2015. That alone
will totally sink the US economy as the rest of our businesses relocate
overseas.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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