$8 a Gallon here

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Originally Posted by redmt

The electric grid is crumbling. The greed and corruption goes unchecked. Electricity prices are soaring to try and slow the consumption of the "energy efficient" all electric homes. Solar is becoming mandatory for new construction in many parts of the country. Solar panels have a finite life as do the batteries. Where do the batteries come from? How are they made? What do you do to recycle them? The electric cars fit into a very small populace that can fit into an even smaller life style. Wind power? There's an old saying that you don't want to live where a wind generator is efficient. BTW, how did all these new electric cars and solar panels along with the massive wind turbines get built? The majority are imported from china and shipped with the new Tesla electric freighter ships.

The electric grid is sized for consumption. It's resized for incremental growth. But the capacity planners are not prepared for a doubling of consumption in 5 years. The grid has no storage capacity - it is not a battery - what goes in is what goes out. Watts have to come from somewhere. Petrolium supplies a lot of watts. Shifting from liquid watts to wire watts is not an infrastructure change that can happen overnight. Nor will it be cheap.

Pretty soon some electric supplier is going to go to their states Public Utilities Commission and ask for a double-the-price rate increase. The reason - we have to double the capacity of the wires to these locations. The powers that be will whine but they'll have no choice.

The likelihood is it'll happen soon, but I still probably won't be around to see it.

Common sense seems to have left the building.