Is a perfect storm forming for this coming winter? The temperature this morning at my house was 55 degrees. That is unheard of in the middle of August. If this cool summer is a sign of a frigid brutal winter ahead, as described below, I won’t be a happy camper. If Obama’s new anti-coal regulations really shut down power plants in January, it could mean a nasty winter ahead. Time to order another cord of wood, just in case.
Barack Obama’s unlawful new EPA regulations — created in secret and orchestrated by what a Senate report calls “The Green Billionaires Club” — threaten the integrity of the entire electric grid this winter.
An unstable electric grid combined with a winter that promises to be “colder and snowier” than prior years appear to be a true recipe for disaster, especially in the bluest of states like Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts.
Joe Bastardi: … It’s flowing along right now into the type of El Nino situation that is notorious for giving the United States cold, snowy winters, especially in the eastern part of the United States, relative to the averages. That would be significant because we were within one power plant last year of having the grid overload …
Question: This is sounding horrific. I know that in the first quarter, the weather was said to be to blame for the slow economic growth. Are we going to stop working, basically is what you’re saying?
Joe Bastardi: This year, if you get the kind of winter that we had in 2009-2010 or 2002-2003 with the nation’s grid on the ropes the way it is and some of these regulations that I hear about coming down that are supposed to close plants on January 1st – and what I know, because we’re involved in getting people ready to fight snow in cities around the country – this could be a very, very big economic impact on the winter. And we’re very concerned about that.
Under the bogus rubric of “protecting the environment”, the Green Energy Billionaire’s Club operates in secret while simultaneously enriching itself and undermining capitalism.
An explosive, 92-page Senate study entitled “How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA”” has been largely ignored by vintage media. It reveals the truth behind the Marxist environmental movement and its goal of advancing fascism in the name of the environment.
Hat tip: BadBlue News.
Those coal-fired electric plants being shut down could result in blackouts in a severe winter (or summer) if there’s not enough power to support the grid:
2/4/2014
“Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Tuesday that he plans to introduce a bill that would allow states to opt-out of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on power plants.
Inhofe said his Electricity Reliability and Affordability Act would allow states to determine which old power plants should be shutdown rather than the federal government.
In an effort to combat carbon emissions, the administration announced that it would limit how much new coal power plants can emit and slowly close older plants that aren’t efficient. Inhofe said states would have a better idea than the federal government of what consumers want and need.
Inhofe also pointed out that January has been one of the coldest months on record, disproving claiming that there is global warming and climate change. He warned that if this cold weather persists and some power plants are shutdown, there might not be enough energy to meet demand during winter months.
“If this recent cold weather occurs again while these plants are shutdown there simply won’t be enough electricity to keep people warm,” Inhofe said on the Senate floor. “It could result in massive blackouts. … It will be as if we’re living in the 1600s and everyone will be cold.”
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“Time to order another cord of wood, just in case.” Jim
Jim – You should work for the EIA (Energy Information Agency) who exceed the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statics) in vagueness and obfuscation. All woods are not equal as a cord of air dried locust or hickory will provide twice the BTUs (British Thermal Units) of heat as a cord of green white pine. All other woods range between these two extremes.
Obfuscate in common usage is to make something appear to be something it is not. It is the major activity in America surpassing sex. What Kunstler took six words to describe, “Blowing smoke up each others ass” I have done with one word. Attorneys are the leading practitioners. Attorney is derived from the Latin attorn meaning to twist or turn. Public Relations and Publicists are a close second. Government spokesmen, press secretaries, the MSM etc., the list is almost endless.
Vagueness is best described by Leon Felkins long essay linked below. Well worth a read when you have time.
http://perspicuity.net/paradox/vagueness.html
Hey Roy…
I would argue that anyone with a wood-burner already knows not to burn soft, resinous woods like pine. If they don’t, they tend to learn quickly. Do that too much, and you get a chimney fire down the road when the creosote builds up and ignites. Which will likely burn your house down. Cooking over softwoods also leaves the food with a nasty taste. Soft green wood is also smokey as hell.
When Admin said “Another cord of wood”, I took it to mean locust, oak, hickory, ash… not schlocky white pine.
As far as the article, this shit is totally engineered. They’re fucking with the supply side in an effort to further an agenda and line their own pockets…
Here in Kentuckistan, we get 90% of our power from coal. Since Onigger started his war on coal, we’ve lost at least 3 power plants and 5,000 jobs in the coal fields around Pikeville… I’ve seen my electric bill go up. It’s still way lower than other areas, but still…
Thing is, the EPA and it’s enforcer goons are using some bullshit Clinton-era regulation to eliminate coal plants. If you make one improvement anywhere in the plant, then you have to upgrade the entire plant, which is not economically viable. So, it’s easier to throw the whole plant under the bus in an effort to placate the goons. First it was sulpher – controlling back end sulpher suddenly became way too expensive to do – since you couldn’t really just stick on a big filter on the back end of a coal plant, you had to upgrade the WHOLE PLANT – and now it’s more economical to have low-sulpher coal schlepped across the US from Wyoming than it is to mine and use anthracite coal from Kentucky – which is right next door….
NOW it’s “mercury”… a metric ton of coal has some trace mercury in it. About the size of a sugar cube per ton. So, it’s not a lot. But the EPA is beating us down in an effort to “control” this mercury – which, oddly, the same EPA is okay with when it’s in those stupid corkscrew lightbulbs they force everyone to buy…
Here. This is a much better look at the ‘war on coal’ and why you’ll freeze your ass off this winter… thanks to Onigger and his tree hugging drum circle fag buddies… it’s insidious…
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/another-from-teslas-kid-the-war-on-coal/
It was 48 degrees in De’toilet this a.m. I’m still freaking cold.
Quick, somebody tell me again how the middle class is not being systematically sent to the dark ages, if not outright culled?
There is NO way the policy makers cannot realize that sending 20% of take home to the insurance companies and doctors, PLUS increasing by triple digits our utilities, PLUS the effects of 90% of our food and necessities being imported while our gubment actively devalues our currency, is not going to send the bulk of the working middle class to poverty.
If not this winter, then soon. I have a feeling death by exposure is soon going to be matching death by suicide as a growing/leading cause of our impending deaths.
The funniest part? I still know fools swapping out wood burning fireplaces for hook up to nat gas, AND people that don’t own a decent pair of winter boots or long johns.
So many begging for their own demise is quite the sight to behold.
Billy – There is no anthracite coal in KY. Anthracite is found only in NE PA and a small area in CO, all the rest is bituminous or soft coal of varying grades.
When Admin said – – – – “I took it to mean- – -“. Unless you are clairvoyant don’t assume things. Deal only in facts.
Yep, 47 this morning in NE Indiana. Dug shallots, onions, potatoes today because the plants have already shut down for the season. Tomatoes will be done in less than a week. Trees already hardening off and coloring / dropping leaves. As I posted about a month ago, all the old-timers around here are predicting a longer, harsher winter than last year.
That is incredible Thinker. August 15 and the plants are already calling an end to the season. I’ve noticed it in my lilies and a few other plants already, and I live one zone up from you thanks to the heatbank that is De’toilet.
What part of NE Indiana? I spent many nights of my misguided youth in Angola, well, the “night” after the bar closed in Hillsdale and we all jumped in our cars to drive back roads to Angola to hit last call again.
My dad hails from South Bend, and I’m the only Notre Dame fan I know around these parts.
Thanks for the update, forewarned is forearmed.
We’re between Fort Wayne and Angola, TE. Just outside of Auburn.
Small world Thinker, my hometown is not far from the spot where Michigan, Ohio and Indiana collide.
Hey Roy?
Thanks for the info. I’m not a coal miner. Never claimed to be one. Don’t play one on TV and didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn last night. The only kind of coal I am familiar with is anthracite. That’s why I said it.
Re: Your advice. You sound like you could benefit from taking it too…
And I grew up in Lenawee Co. …
This shit makes me nervous, our coal fired plant is scheduled for shut down next year, we’re supposed to get our power from the other side of the state.
There was a brief discussion to convert it to natural gas, but the smart folks thought that would be too expensive, so a complete shutdown and demolish is in process.
I have a tri fuel generator that will run off of gas, propane or natural gas, but if my lights are on, what type of miscreants will my warm house attract?
Might be time to install that wood burner I’ve always wanted, and lay up some more ammo……..
Roy said:
“When Admin said – – – – “I took it to mean- – -”. Unless you are clairvoyant don’t assume things. Deal only in facts. ”
So where exactly is this “fact” that admin was referring to green, white pine? Dumb ass much?
And who, besides a complete idiot would burn “green” anything?
Billy, out west here the best firewood you can get is Tamarack known back east as Larch. It’s a deciduous conifer. Plenty of people burn shitloads of pine because as you said on another thread, “ya gotta run what ya brung”. I did score a nice pile of oak a couple years ago, about 10 cords. A local college was expanding its campus which meant tearing out a bunch of oak trees that were planted in the 60’s and I snagged the green logs before they sent them to the recyclers. I still don’t have a wood stove though but it’s on the list.
You guys back east just need to have a little faith in Uncky Al! That global warming thing will save you any day now. I’d buy property in northern Canada now if I were ya’ll just to escape the heat during summer!
Roy
Blow me.
Cordially
Admin
card,
Dude, you wouldn’t believe how loud a generator is… especially when all around you is dark and silent.
Middle of the night in the middle of the desert. We followed the sounds – and then the diesel smell – of a generator for a surprisingly long way. When we got close enough, no matter how good their light discipline was, we could make things out from quite a ways off… with night vision, it’s even worse (for the owners of said generator…)
If you’re the only one with a genny, there will be the sound of the genny running, plus the exhaust smell, plus light. If there’s a power outage, and you’re the only ones with lighting… you might as well just hang out a sign.
Best thing I could think up was that if I was going to buy a backup genny, it would be a diesel. I would dig a deep hole and have a concrete slab poured at the bottom. Put the genny in the hole and then, using plain old exhaust pipe you can get from any muffler place, equip it with a couple more mufflers. Then put a structure above the genny with a roof on it. You can’t stop the exhaust smell, but putting it underground and having multiple mufflers will help quiet it down tremendously…
For light discipline, you’re going to have to either paste over every window with Reynold’s aluminum foil or paint over the glass to keep the light from showing. We were always told that a lit cigarette butt can be seen at 5 miles with the naked eye. Now, imagine a lit 2nd story window when all the world around is dark…
We’re having our fireplace and chimney rebuilt next year. Put down fire brick all around in front of it here in the living room, then slide a small cast iron woodburning stove into the fireplace. Run the pipe straight up the chimney. Won’t heat the whole house, but it will keep us warm and we can cook on it. And no chimney fires…
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Another source would be whatever city you live in or near…
After every big storm, chances are they’re gonna get rid of at least one hardwood tree that got knocked down or hit by a bolt of lightning…
Get with your city engineers or the maintenance guys. Give them your number and shit and tell them every time they go and cut down a tree or clear away a downed tree, to give you a call. Most cities have 100 year old oaks, maples, etc, planted for shade and decoration. If nobody offers to take the wood when one of those old timers gets knocked down, then chances are the wood goes into the local landfill or is burned right there…
Damn shame. But I know at least one guy making a profit from that old wood. 150 year old walnut tree gets knocked down, he shows up and carts off the wood. Makes beautiful furniture out of it…
Billy, I’m afraid the city employees and power people already scarf that shit up for themselves or someone they know. I lucked into the oak by pure timing. Apart from a few varieties of hardwood planted by people there just isn’t any hardwood around these parts. Too cold I guess.
We have loads of hydro power around here so the lights will be staying on. My electric and gas bill together runs about $1000-$1500 a year which is cheap from what I understand.
@Olga, oh my, me too!
Olga , no body cares where you grew up and I have noticed everything you post is always about you.You want this and that.Meeeeeeeee is all you care about even when you pretend to care about blacks . It’s still about you .Do you realize how selfish you are ?.If you keep this selfish egotistical nonsense up I will request admin revoke your posting privileges for two weeks.
“We’re Going the Wrong Way.” An article I wrote for TBP in April. Explains everything.
I will request admin revoke your posting privileges for two weeks.
Since when is bb admin’s pet?