Falling carbon price could result in higher bills, energy firms warn
12/21/2009 7:31:42 PM
we're going to keep using EFFICIENT coal plants until stupid cap-and-trade policies stifle the economy to the point that people can't afford electricity anymore. When that happens, we won't be building new reactors either.
12/21/2009 11:08:50 PM
NUCLEAR. I wish people would stop being afraid of what they have no fucking clue about. If you think about it nuclear is "cleaner" than wind power if you consider all the materials, land use, and other by products of building 10,000 wind turbines in order to generate the power of one nuclear plant.
12/22/2009 8:06:47 AM
^^ i don’t think that’s true.The article implies that companies use the money they save or make from selling carbon credits to keep energy costs down, as well as put in to new, more efficient (because that’s how they get teh credits) plants.
12/22/2009 9:18:18 AM
If the governments didn't screw with energy regulations every other day then power companies would built new plants when the demand necessitates it.
12/22/2009 10:11:46 AM
or they could not and make more money. do you really think we'd start consuming that much more energy to offset the price decline if prices dropped? people don't just turn on everything in the house for the hell of it, that's just stupid. that's like the same argument that was had about oil production, when most oil companies weren't even drilling on the lands they had.
12/22/2009 4:39:29 PM
If the gov. didn’t regulate energy, there’d be no financial reason for power companies to run electricity to remote areas.
12/22/2009 6:17:05 PM
nowhere did I say eliminate all energy regulation economies grow and thrive on cheap energy. without it you don't have a chance.
12/23/2009 9:21:41 AM
^^government regulations don't force electric utilities to serve rural customers. There are some stipulations regarding the effort you have to put into making new connections if you are an RUS borrower, but they still only allocate a certain dollar amount (~$5,000 for residential) for new service construction and you will be required to pay the remainder of construction costs up front before they'll even consider making a new connection.
12/23/2009 9:45:08 AM
It looks like the 2010 climate change conference is underway:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference
12/6/2010 2:36:28 AM
Haha. I doubt it. Mountain Inhofe is too busy helping to raise taxes to be concerned with that. Consider he punked out the last time I doubt this is even on his radar.
12/6/2010 6:14:49 AM