PM to the state of Washington

Getting it good and hard. Chinslee and company saving the world from chicom coal CO2 by phucking hard working Washingtonians for the green gaia religion. Hope these surprised morons all voted for dems, Chinslee and the dementia patient. Wow, imagine passing down mandated costs to consumers? It's like there is thing called economic reality. Fortunately, this won't affect the cost of anything else like gasoline or any consumer goods that require energy to produce.

https://katu.com/live/nw-natural-customers-concerned-over-new-climate-act-fee-on-bill#

VANCOUVER, Wa. (KATU) — Many people are getting their most-recent NW Natural bills in the mail. Some customers have noticed a new "WA Climate Act Fee." The Washington legislature passed it back in 2021 as a way to encourage polluters to lower emissions. But that cost has now been passed down to the customer.

“The first bill was $30.38 and I assumed it was a one-time fee. I didn’t think it was going to be every bill," Vancouver resident Marianne Moore said of the fee she's now had on two of her bills.

The cost is thanks to a new state-mandated climate program called the Washington Cap and Invest Program. These fee on customer's monthly bills started January 1, 2024 as a result of this program.

“I thought a climate fee what is this all about? And why are we having to pay it? I was quite shocked," Moore said after noting she called NW Natural and said she was told it's now a new monthly fee.

The scam is that Blue State Utility Commissions approve all capital projects. Between state renewable mandates and the over 30% federal subsidies for renewable energy credits utilities get their wind and solar projects approved. Even with the subsidies, renewable projects due to inflation are now significantly more expensive the combined cycle natural gas plants. Plus, you need expensive transmission to get power from nowhere to somewhere. Commie utility commissioners don't care about costs if they can virtue signal and the costs are just passed on to the idiot consumers who deserve it. But you are right, the more expensive the electric plant the more money the utility makes. So, they just go along with the grift.

They eroded the state's competitive balance on the income tax by starting with the capital gains tax. No way the dems will be satisfied until an income tax on ordinary income is imposed.

Dems are poised to have a supermajority in the House after 2024. Senate could happen, too. Constitutional changes can then be made under single party rule.

Realistically, I don't think a straight income tax will happen because there are enough swing districts in play, for now. But the Dems will continue to nibble around the edges to find more revenue for their insatiable big government appetite.

I was at a solar panel manufacturer in Bend probably 10 years ago that was a client and midway during a meeting they all got called out for an emergency conference call. Turns out either a grant or subsidy wasn’t renewed and that pretty much ended to meeting and eventually the company a year or so later. Way cheaper to just build them in China no matter how much coal- or hydro-powered electricity they use in the process.

My RV trip last fall headed south I passed a whole bunch of those useless toxic things on the road. Until you're right next to them their size cannot be understood!

A five-megawatt wind turbine can require 700 gallons of lubricant, and costly synthetic fluids are preferred in the industry. Typically, oil change intervals are scheduled for from 9 to 16 months.

So green!

Once up and running, the 700 gallons of lubricant are probably comparable for what they are using on a 500 megawatt combined gas cycle natural gas plant plus the actual natural gas. The problem is a wind turbine produces only about 40% of rated capacity. So a 500 megawatt wind plant is actually producing only 200 megawatt hours of electricity while a gas plant is running over 95% efficiency. Then when the wind doesn't blow and you need 500 megawatts of power you need a standby 500 megawatt gas plant plus your wind farm to meet demand. So now you are paying for both at least one 500 megawatt wind farm plus a 500 megawatt gas plant. None of this pencils out. Hence the huge increase in electrical rates.

PS Those 20 year warrantied wind turbine lubricated gear boxes are failing early like crazy. The gear box manufacturers are getting killed on warranty replacements and part of the large increase in turbine prices. You can stick a 500 megawatt gas plant on five acres anywhere you have a gas line. You can stick a 500 megawatt wind plant on hundreds of acres in Wyoming, population 585,000 because that's where the wind blows and there is available land. Long way to Los Angeles or Phoenix or Portland or Seattle to move that power. New transmission lines don't use any land, fortunately and all populated communities love a huge transmission line cutting through.

LED bulbs seem to have shorter lifespans than incandescent bulbs while costing 5 times as much money. I find myself replacing a burned out LED bulb at least once every couple months.