What happens when politicians pretend they understand the engineering and physical constraints behind power generation? Nothing good. From The Daily Caller: EXCLUSIVE: Democrats Are Behind Your Crippling Electricity Bills, Report Confirms
State policies are a monumental factor in electricity costs, and Democrat-led states have driven prices upward through pushing aggressive mandates and choking reliable power supply, according to a new report by the Institute for Energy Research (IER).
The new report, first provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation, found that blue states generally have higher electricity costs than red states. Titled “Blue States, High Rates. Electricity Prices: Elections Have Consequences,” IER’s report notes that all but one of the top 10 most expensive states for energy — measured by cost per kilowatt hour — are governed by Democrats.
The article almost touches on reliability, but doesn't quite. When you get enough solar and wind in the mix, keeping the grid stable becomes a nightmare, and then, if you keep adding "renewables" it becomes impossible.
When politicians pretend they understand engineering and physics, or just ignore the engineering and physics, bad things happen. (Hat tip to Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
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