Global warming climate change and the idiotic government policies which stem from the activists plans are supposed to be much more William Teach‘s bailiwick than mine, but I seem to have had a few recently. On Good Friday, I noted that the Biden Administration’s plans to have 500,000 commercial charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles installed by 2030 was falling very short. Philadelphia is going to ‘crack down’ on people parking on the sidewalks, something which many row home residents in the city have to do, and which means that at home charging of electric vehicles will not work for many of them. And now, The Philadelphia Inquirer has reported, though certainly not in any way to complain about government policies, just how all of this is going to fall on the consumer.

Good news and bad news on Pa. electricity includes reduced CO2 emissions but high costs for residents

According to a Peco report, Pennsylvania reduced its CO2 emissions by 10%, the largest year-over-year decline since 1990. But the cost of cents per kilowatt hour is higher than the national average.

by Lynette Hazelton | Holy Saturday, March 30, 2024 | 5:00 AM EDT

There’s the good news regarding the state’s electricity generation for 2023. Electricity was cleaner and local electricity was more reliable.

Pennsylvania reduced its CO2 emissions by 10%, the largest year-over-year decline since 1990, largely because of the decrease in coal production/. Despite a national rise in blackouts, Peco last year had the lowest rate of power outages in the company’s history.

Is that because PECO did better, or that their service area just lucked out with fewer weather problems?

And then there was the bad news for advocates of renewable energy.

Pennsylvania is still highly dependent natural gas, a fossil fuel, for 59% for electricity generation, more than the U.S. average at 43.1%.

These are the latest statistics from the Pennsylvania Electricity update released earlier this month. Last year the state also generated more electricity than New York and Ohio combined, but only 3.7% was from sources other than fossil fuel or nuclear energy.

And what’s wrong with nuclear energy? Nuclear power plants do not generate the ‘greenhouse gasses’ of which the activists are so terrified, and they are extremely reliable. In 2023, 59.0% of the Keystone State’s power generation came from burning natural gas, something produced in Pennsylvania thanks to hydraulic fracturing, just 5.4% from burning coal, and 31.9% from nuclear power plants.

Pennsylvania was also the nations leading electricity exporter, selling 83% of the power generated outside the Commonwealth’s borders, far, far ahead of Alabama, which came in second at 45%. That sounds to me like more good jobs for Pennsylvanians!

Skipping further down:

From 2021 to 2022, Pennsylvania electricity price increased 33.8% far surpassing the U.S. price increased of 19.6%. States who have held prices lower have credited it to a having more diverse supply mix. In February electricity rates in Philadelphia were about 20 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) verses 17 cents for national average.

Higher cost electricity, combined with older appliances and poor weatherization of aging row houses is the primary reason why one out of seven people spend over 10% of their income on utilities in Philadelphia.

Think about what this means. The federal government is pushing plug-in electric vehicles, and as the number of those increase, the demand for electricity will increase as well, meaning that people will have even higher utility bills. Philadelphia has the highest poverty rate of America’s ten largest cities, and when reporter Lynette Hazelton writes about “older appliances and poor weatherization” in the city’s “aging row houses,” she is writing about primarily about poor Philadelphians, for who replacing “older appliances” and better insulating their homes is a greater burden. And that doesn’t even include consideration of how Our Betters want people’s gas-fired heating systems replaced with electric heating units, which is a more expensive project than simply changing out the units in many cases.

This is the one thing that the climate activists don’t want people to know. All of their plans involve huge increases in spending by consumers. If you vote for Democrats, you are voting for increased costs, not just for yourself, but for your neighbors as well, for the people who might not have as much money or resources as you do.