Low wind puts Texans on high alert to conserve power

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TerryMiller

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There is no problem with wind in Washington DC, it is windy all the time!
Didn't the media say in recent years that we have enough oil to last 200 years? The liberals don't want us to drill off shore or on Alaska's North Slope so where are they going to get their power when oil runs short? They're like the rest of us, appreciate their ac, lights etc. I'm not sure who or what they are looking our after.

Regarding the reference to how much time our oil will last, years ago, it was spelled out that whenever someone puts a time limit on our energy sources, new technology comes along to expand that time. Thus, I never get worried about energy when the idiots on TV and whatnot tell us we are running out.

Kind of like ignoring AOC and her claim of us lasting 12 years before the end comes.
 

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There is enough coal in Wyoming alone to provide electricity at the rate it was in 2011 for 600 yrs! The idea of this country solving the problems associated with coal fired plants seems to me to be this country's electric energy problems. We can put a man on the moon 50 yrs ago but cannot solve this issue?? That is rediculous !! Turning our backs on this supply of potential energy would be like outlawing fracking in the oil business. How stupid!!
 

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Regarding the reference to how much time our oil will last, years ago, it was spelled out that whenever someone puts a time limit on our energy sources, new technology comes along to expand that time. Thus, I never get worried about energy when the idiots on TV and whatnot tell us we are running out.
There are other factors involved in that. It has been a loooong time since I took economic geography, but there were (and may still be) tax schemes in some states that tax companies on their proven reserves (I want to say the case study was mining, but it could've been oil&gas or coal) over the next X years. As a result, the companies would only have proven reserves for the next X years, then a year (or two) later, they would "discover" more of the resources to extend out to the next X years, but no further. They basically had no incentive to fully explore the deposits, and a pretty strong one to only explore enough of it to satisfy the tax man.

That, FWIW, was how I knew the predictions of "peak oil" were 99 and 44/100ths percent pure BS (well, that and understanding the concept of marginal wells). I didn't understand it at the time, but my Econ geography prof was right--the difference between natural resources and economic resources is that natural resources are finite.
 

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My sister lives in North Texas, and her electricity bills are horrible in the summer. Like $400-ish per month horrible. And she has a propane water heater and cookstove.

We're on a rural Co-op and ours was $175.68 last month. Total electric except for a propane Dearborn heater.


Mine was $93 and change, one bdrm trailer with two window units.
 

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