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Originally Posted by jbgusa
It's quite interesting that most energy crises since WW II have been self-inflicted:
- 1973-4 and 1979 by a Rube Goldberg price control and allocation mechanism;
- New York State and other "Blue" states by ideologically driven limitations on use of nuclear power, and curtailment of natural gas pipelines (to ship fracked gas from Pennsylvania to New England);
- Europe, by curtailment of nuclear power and use of coal.
When will we ever learn that energy production is always messy and never cost-free? |
I promise that SOMEONE is getting rich off the Green New Inflation Reduction Act.
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