Electric Power Usage Flat but Price is Up

All we have heard of late is how we have to conserve energy - the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has finalized their figures for 2006 and shows that the increase in price for electrical power is the largest in twenty five years. At the same time power generation for the year increased only two tenths of one percent of 2005.

The price rose 8.9 percent per kilowatt hour, a 9.3 percent increase over the 2005 average and the biggest since 1981. What is up with this? We use less but we pay more.

We used total over 4 million megawatt hours in 2006, half of which came from coal fired plants, which by the way are on the way to being extinct, natural gas and nuclear were tied with 20 and 19 percent respectively. Renewables account for approximately 2.4 percent and oil fueled about 1.6 percent less than that.

I find these figures to be astounding - I know the liberals who live in tents and eat bark want everyone else to do the same but I for one will not, as I know 99.8 percent of the total population likes to live in a warm house in the winter or a cool house in the summer.

It surely doesn't take rocket science to figure out that not drilling in the Anwar or off our coasts or not building any more nuclear plants will drive the price of power through the roof as demand goes up each year. What will the 'ecofasists' have to say when the 'brown outs' start or people freeze to death in the winter because they can't afford to buy fuel or power companies can't generate enough electricity to meat the demand? I know what they will say, " to bad".

Hillary has indicated, and voted, to stop any drill in this country or the building of new refiners. We haven't built a new refinery in this country in thirty years. What has the demand done in that time? She wants us to live on ethanol, wind power and vegetable fat- she says we have to become energy independent from foreign oil - What is she talking about - we need the oil to survive - what about national security when our economy goes into the toilet and we can't defend our selves? Oh I know, we will engage in dialogue with the bad people that want us dead!!

Anyway, keep the faith, the battle is joined