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| Patrick plans conservation to meet rising energy needs |
| 2007-06-26 |
| Massachusetts governor plans to cut electricity use by letting power companies charge more if customers use less. This is just plain bizarre. Hoping to make Massachusetts a national showcase for energy conservation, Governor Deval Patrick will announce plans today to offset the state's annual increases in electricity demand with equivalent energy-efficiency and conservation measures by 2010. As the economy has grown and as many homeowners have added electronics and air-conditioning, the state's total electric usage has been increasing at about 1 percent annually, the equivalent of adding about 170,000 new average-sized houses every year, US Energy Department data show. But Patrick contends that the state can conserve at least that much more electricity every year and keep overall demand frozen indefinitely, for much less than the cost of building new power plants. Patrick's policy will include legislation to require that utilities such as NStar and National Grid pay for all energy-conservation efforts that, in cost per unit of power saved, are less expensive than buying that much power from energy suppliers. That could include subsidizing the cost of customers installing lower- consumption lighting such as fluorescent bulbs or replacing appliances and industrial gear. |
| Posted by:Delphi |
| #5 Governor Patrick's plan will fail because he has broken one of the cardinal rules of communist economic plans: All Plans Must Be Five Years. You would think someone governing Mass would know better. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2007-06-26 23:53 |
| #4 TU3031, I'll race you. My exit is currently booked for 1/1/09. When are you going? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2007-06-26 20:35 |
| #3 "My hope is to help Deval reach his goal by joining the rest of the escapees and eventually getting the fuck out of this lunatic asylum of a state..." Smart move, TU3031. Mass is, and has been, crooked as a dog's hind leg for a LONG time. Patrick is a worthless, race-baiting, piece of garbage and yet another example of how the Mass voters just love electing criminals and demagogues to office. I've often wondered if it's something in the water that makes Mass so screwed up decade after decade... |
| Posted by: Mac 2007-06-26 18:48 |
| #2 The fact that Massachusetts is losing population, though, makes reducing electric demand considerably easier than elsewhere. My hope is to help Deval reach his goal by joining the rest of the escapees and eventually getting the fuck out of this lunatic asylum of a state... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-06-26 16:48 |
| #1 Prices rise, people cut back???? Basic economics?????? Can't possibly work in PROM. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2007-06-26 16:41 |