https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tex...ppy-while-sticking-its-citizens-with-the-bill
Now, however, they are on the defensive over electricity costs that have their residents paying more than $1,000 per household in higher electricity charges over the last four years.
That’s right - $1,219 per household in higher electricity costs for the 71,000 residents of Georgetown, Texas,
i know i can't afford that.
my electric bill is high enough the way that it is.
You can'r afford not to have green energy.
You can'r afford not to have green energy.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tex...ppy-while-sticking-its-citizens-with-the-bill
Now, however, they are on the defensive over electricity costs that have their residents paying more than $1,000 per household in higher electricity charges over the last four years.
That’s right - $1,219 per household in higher electricity costs for the 71,000 residents of Georgetown, Texas,
i know i can't afford that.
my electric bill is high enough the way that it is.
In October, the average electricity rate in Georgetown was 11.69¢ per kWh. The average households monthly electricity usage was 1,078 kWh, making the average bill around $126.
based on EIA Data as of December, 2018
https://www.texaselectricityratings.com/electricity-rates/texas/georgetown/78626
I'm too busy paying taxes to pay for a solar system.
Are you trying to argue that FOX News is fake news?
Oh, I didn't realize there was a price tag on the solar system. :2razz:
Green energy is mostly another scam. When you see all the liberal political and Hollywood elites flying all over the place pumping millions of tons of CO2 into the air while telling you that you need a solar powered home or have to pay exorbitant charges for inefficient "green" energy, you know it's BS. We can provide all of our energy needs for the forseeable future with oil, natural gas and nuclear power. The green energy mania is joined at the hip to the "climate change" mania, another thing that is all about politics and wealth transference. A hundred years from now, people, or at least rational ones, will be laughing their asses off at all this mindless alarmism.
Even if it's not an immediate existential threat, why not invest in renewable energy? Isn't it better to explore renewable energy than to plan to continuously burn non-renewable resources forever?
I know I can't afford that.
Conservatives have issues looking past the end of their noses or the next quarter.
You could start a conservative movement to bring back coal-fired generator plants. You might be able to afford that, although your grandchildren's lungs might not. But what do you care? You'll be long gone...
Oh, I didn't realize there was a price tag on the solar system. :2razz:
Or if you'd like a more honest explanation of things.
https://communityimpact.com/austin/...er-energy-price-drop-costs-city-6-84-million/
So basically the town signed a long term contract assuming they'd get paid a certain amount of money for every kilowatt of energy their clean energy grid generated in surplus. To keep things flat long term they agreed to buy a surplus up front expecting to sell it for a profit. Unfortunately in the short term with prices down a bit they couldn't sell their surplus for as much as they wanted to so they're in a bit of a hole. If however, those prices rebound in the future they'll be making bank.
As of right now the townspeople aren't actually paying higher bills. They're still getting cheap energy it's just that the town is running a deficit. That sucks, but if they can negotiate the rates down they should be fine, and if things pick up down the road they could still come out way ahead. Time will tell.
Furthermore, the massive move towards clean energy around the world is likely one of the bigger reasons why so many other energy sources are coming so cheap. The small sacrifices that towns like this are making are hugely beneficial to us all. Rather than attack them for doing the right thing we should be thanking them. This is why these types of decisions really need to be made at higher levels like the state and federal level to ensure that we all share the burden.
i grew up in a coal state and lived next to a coal power plant for years and years and years.
guess what i am healthy as a horse.
so take your appeal to emotion arguments elsewhere.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tex...ppy-while-sticking-its-citizens-with-the-bill
Now, however, they are on the defensive over electricity costs that have their residents paying more than $1,000 per household in higher electricity charges over the last four years.
That’s right - $1,219 per household in higher electricity costs for the 71,000 residents of Georgetown, Texas,
i know i can't afford that.
my electric bill is high enough the way that it is.
But it may not actually be them. It will depend on future energy prices. It is entirely possible that in the future these prices to back up, and they make a surplus to cancel it out. That is one nice thing that a government can do well for its people is provide stability by absorbing short term deficits in tough times until things bounce back. Really nothing wrong with that.Thank you for supporting the article. if they are running a deficit it means they are not making money. meaning it is costing them money and someone is going to have to pay for it.
Maybe you should read the article again. The townspeople are not actually paying higher rates right now. They might in the future, but it's also possible things could swing back the other way and cancel them out. If that happens it would then be you who would owe me the extra money.cool soi can expect you to hand me the extra 1000 a year for my electricity so you can have warm fuzzies that you are doing something.
So you just don't really understand how investments work do you? Generally, with an investment, the idea is that you ensure a substantial cost up front, and then over time, you make more money than you had originally. You may not be able to afford the upfront costs, but the government can, and over the long haul you will be much better off for it.people in Germany don't like paying for warm fuzzies either.
your the one that made appeal to emotion fallacy
You used a personal experience or an isolated example instead of a sound argument or compelling evidence.
It's often much easier for people to believe someone's testimony as opposed to understanding complex data and variation across a continuum. Quantitative scientific measures are almost always more accurate than personal perceptions and experiences, but our inclination is to believe that which is tangible to us, and/or the word of someone we trust over a more 'abstract' statistical reality.
Please learn what fallacies actually mean before you use them.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal
You think the fact that you lived near a coal plant for a while without dying so that allows you to ignore the fact that every study on the subject shows unequivocally that breathing in large amounts of coal dust is heavily correlated to early death. All the coal miners who died before the age of 60 don't give a flying **** about your anecdotal evidence.
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