This is not going to end well.
American Spectator (4/2/23) reports: "When the electricity fizzles and the lights go out at a time when they are needed most, the good people in charge of a critical energy grid operating across state lines will not be in a position to help anyone except historians. Policymakers who have embraced so-called renewable energy in the name of climate change ought to take a hard look at the projections included in the most recent report from PJM Interconnection, which operates the electric transmission system in the Northeast, Western, and mid-Atlantic regions. Unfortunately, the report’s findings have been drowned out by the climate change activism flowing out of the Biden White House that prioritizes federal power grabs over scientific and economic realities...The closure of natural gas and coal plants in the PJM states will have a ripple effect throughout the entire country. Dan Kish, a senior fellow with the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a Washington-based nonprofit that supports free market policies, views the PJM report as a 'cry for help' and as a warning to political figures who are undercutting American energy. 'When you take away full-time reliable sources and replace them with unstable renewables, you need something to back these renewable sources and the higher costs of electricity begin to roll,' Kish said. 'The report from PJM is foreboding,' he continued, 'but will the political class wake up to the supply-and-demand problem they’ve created with fossil fuel plants shutting down faster than they can be replaced with renewables?'”
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"Democrats accuse refiners of colluding to squeeze supply and inflate profits. There is no evidence of this, but Democrats insist they could prove misconduct with more data. Their new reporting regime and penalties will increase refiner costs, which will invariably be passed onto consumers."
– Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
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