Progressives Must Stop Prosperity : The War on All Fossil Resources

The forces that are trying to "fundamentally" change America are finding ways to restrict the population's options a good way to see their agenda come to pass, and what a good way to do this is to restrict their access to electrical power though the destruction all fossil fuel resources.

The war on coal and now natural gas is just the beginning. With the advent of 'fracking' making the discovery of huge amounts of these natural resources oil and natural gas readily available to make the use natural gas and oil cheaper and therefore passing on the savings to the customers to heat their homes and drive their cars, let alone the benefits to industry.

But the problem here is this foretells a future of prosperity, something that the progressive socialist can not abide. Prosperity brings individual freedom which in the eyes and mentality of the progressive, spells doom for their agenda of ultimate power through population control.

Planning America's Energy Future
Source: H. Sterling Burnett, "America's Energy Future: Greater Independence," Jewish Policy Center, Fall 2013.

October 14, 2013

The biggest energy challenge facing America is the need to expand, upgrade, modernize and better protect America's electric grid. The grid consists of more than 6 million miles of transmission and distribution lines owned by more than 3,000 highly diverse, investor-owned, government-owned and cooperative enterprises, says H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.

• Simultaneous with the expansion of the grid, the federal and various state governments have been working to "nationalize" it, which means not to put it under government ownership but to have it interconnected with multiple pathways and redundancies from region to region across the nation.
• A nationwide grid should reduce routine outages caused by localized or in some instance even regional events.

Another vexing issue is "green power." Government policies in this regard are undermining grid reliability and increasing outages because the intermittent nature of green sources of electricity decreases the stability the system needs.

• Traditional power plants produce a relatively consistent, constant flow of electricity. Wind and solar power are inconsistent.
• This makes keeping a consistent power flow through the grid very difficult.
• Yet, federal and state incentives and subsidies to produce wind and solar power or -- even worse -- mandates for the use of green power provide that the power must be generated and fed into the wires regardless of the costs or the havoc it plays with the reliability of the system.

The United States has abundant power supplies that could be developed to a greater extent and used more effectively if only the government would reduce barriers to development and end mandates and market distorting subsidies.