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March 29, 2024

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Joe Biden’s moves to increase America’s use of ethanol will have no impact on the environment, but it will make both corn and gasoline more expensive. Expensive corn means meat costs will rise, as corn is a primary feed for cattle, chicken, and pigs. Rising gas prices will increase the costs of everything that must be shipped, which is pretty much everything.

In the meantime, more states than ever before will experience rolling blackouts and rolling brownouts this summer ⏤ as more and more states exceed the level of wind and solar ⏤ both of which produce at levels that vary a great deal ⏤ that traditional energy sources can support.

Electricity production and electricity consumption must at all times be exactly the same. If production ever exceeds consumption, the grid blows up, requiring repairs that take months and months to complete.

Imagine going four or five months without electricity. Sadly, at some point, a large geographic area is going to do more than imagine that, and if it happens at the wrong time of year, it will cost millions of lives.

Consumption varies, and while there is some predictability to it, the variance is constant.

Coal, natural gas, and nuclear power can be adjusted to match changes in consumption, keeping electricity cheap and reliable. The vast majority of brownouts and blackouts on grids relying on these energy sources are caused by local equipment failures that can be quickly fixed, such as a blown transformer.

Natural gas, coal, and nuclear are so easy to keep equal with consumption that a grid can even use some wind and solar – about 10% – and STILL adjust production to exactly match consumption, providing cheap and reliable electricity.

Once wind and solar start producing more than 10% of a grid’s electricity, a funny thing happens: suddenly, natural gas, coal, and nuclear are no longer able to keep up with both the variance of consumption and the variance in wind and solar production.

If production is lower than demand, nothing blows up – some demand simply goes unmet (blackouts and brownouts). If production ever exceeds demand, the grid blows up, and we go months without any electricity at all. This means that once a grid relies more than about 10% on wind and solar, production must always be lower than demand by enough that if a gust of wind or a break in the clouds suddenly causes production to spike, there will be sufficient demand to consume the spike in production – no matter how big that spike may be.

Such an energy system would be great for me. I have a background heavily based in computer programming and statistics, and I can combine those two skills to write software to manage the rolling brownouts and blackouts to nullify the chance for production to spike and crash the system. Such software is going to be in demand.

Such a scenario, however, is not good for very many people.

A grid that relies too much on wind and solar has no choice but to keep production below demand by enough that no spike in production can ever exceed demand, making it functionally impossible for such a grid to EVER operate without rolling brownouts and blackouts.

Michigan will cross that threshold this summer. Our energy companies are already telling us we will see rolling brownouts and blackouts this summer.

What we have not been told – but what is true – is that those rolling brownouts and blackouts will continue after the summer ends. Starting this summer, Michigan will never have cheap and reliable electricity again, unless it reverses course and relies less on wind and solar.

California has not had cheap and reliable energy in years.

When will your state start living in the dark?

Some will say, no problem – I have a generator. That is very true. If you have a generator, then you can produce electricity during a brownout or blackout, and can run at least some things, like your furnace and refrigerator. If you have a big enough generator, you may be able to run your whole house.

But because of the cost of gasoline, and now with the added cost of adding more ethanol to it, you will pay through the nose for that independence, and when you throw in the fact that your wages are losing buying power (with everything becoming ever more expensive – and particularly energy) your ability to afford the gas to avoid outages is declining.

But you can rest assured that the neighborhoods where the rich and powerful live will not be the ones where the lights go out.  That will only happen where you live.

You, my friends, will never have cheap and reliable energy again.

Those who are causing the problem are already lying about the causes. They blame producers. They blame capitalism. Some of them may even believe those lies. And they HAVE to lie as if the truth ever really got out – not just to the few people who will read this article, but to the rest of the population as well; the people would demand a different kind of change than the Democratic Party is pushing for.

As long as Democrats are in charge, our reliance on expensive and unreliable energy sources will only expand, and with that expansion, the brownouts and blackouts will become longer and deeper.

This year brownouts and blackouts will be a nuisance. Eventually, there will be a spike in production at a critically bad time, such as what ALMOST happened in Texas the other winter, and millions of people will die.

Our current energy policy is more dangerous to flesh and blood human beings than would be a small-scale nuclear war.

So who benefits from our energy policy? The answer is, of course, China. We don’t make wind turbines and solar panels. We don’t mine the rare-earth materials necessary for batteries. China does.

Switching from cheap and reliable energy sources to intermittent and expensive energy sources is going to destroy the living standards of the vast majority of Americans and is going to make the United States wholly dependent on a hostile foreign power – the same hostile foreign power that the United States worked with to create Covid-19.

Now you know why Hunter Biden made tens of millions of dollars jointly owning a Chinese energy firm with the Chinese Communist Party.

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TRICIA ANTHONE
1 year ago

We are quite literally bringing back “the dark ages” because policy is driven by IDEOLOGY instead of observed reality. Will we fight back? It’s obvious we cannot simply “vote back.”

The people in power have seated themselves by virtue of manipulating the election process. Recourse to the ballot box is no longer an option. They didn’t simply take it. We yielded it to our pathological fear of confrontation. Who stood firm and denied the Marxists’ willful and openly destructive implementation of processes that defied state laws to permit the use of lists that were not purged of the dead or moved voters, junk-mailing ballots, unattended ballot boxes, waiver of deadlines, failure to check signatures, ballot trafficking and more? Who stood against these processes in the face of the horrifying threat of being called ‘racist’ by the Marxist Mob? No one. We have lost the democrating process to cowardice.

Will our states’ legislatures and/or executives muster courage enough to nullify fed regulations that suppress oil, natural gas production? Will our states’ legislatures muster the courage to CONVENE themselves under Art V to introduce more permanent measures to prune Federal power?

Or will we wait until our ONLY options are “fight and die or just die”?

Great analysis of the issue, Wallace.

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