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New York energy policy is now being determined through elitist mobocracy as policy-makers everywhere attempt to appease virtue-signaling trust-funder types.
New York energy policy is a complete disaster. Energy In Depth has a great piece up noting the insanity and pointing out what Andrew Cuomo recently told Politico:
“I don’t build any fossil-fuel plants anymore, and I banned fracking, and I have the most aggressive renewable goals in the country.”
EID also demolishes Gov. Corruprocrat’s plan to divest the New York State Common Retirement Fund from fossil fuel investments, a move that could cost New York State’s pensioners more than $1 trillion.
Meanwhile, a group of trendy types from Cooperstown motored a half-hour south to Oneonta to oppose a natural gas decompressor facility there on the theory businesses being forced to burn oil in the winter should go solar rather get the additional natural gas they need. It is, in both cases, an elitist mobocracy that is setting New York energy policy.
The role of the Park and Rockefeller families in influencing New York energy policy through the funding of Walter Hang and various shill organizations is well documented on these pages. It is an elitist mobocracy at work. Our friend Jim Willis at the invaluable Marcellus Drilling News carried a great story the other day illustrating how it works at the local level. Entitled “Anti Fossil Fuel Zealots in Oneonta, NY Oppose CNG Terminal,” it includes this analysis by Jim (emphasis added):
A boatload of anti fossil fuel zealots from Cooperstown put down their wine glasses long enough to pack an auditorium in nearby Oneonta. They were there to bloviate against a sensible plan to build a CNG “decompressor” facility to accept trucks loaded with CNG during wintertime and summertime when area supplies of natgas get dangerously low…
On really cold and really hot days there’s not enough natural gas in the region, and some large users of gas, like the local hospital and state university, actually have to stop using gas and switch to burning oil as a backup. It’s nuts.
To overcome lack of clean-burning gas supplies, the local economic development people are trying to chase down grants to build a decompression station that would be used for maybe two weeks out of the entire year.
Wednesday night the Oneonta Town Board held a hearing to get more details about the project. The loons from Cooperstown (i.e., Otsego 2000) turned out in force, some 100 of them, to protest the plan. Why? Because it’s a “fossil fuel.” What did the loons offer as an alternative to this sensible plan to truck in CNG only on days when it’s needed? They recommend “retrofitting old buildings to save energy” (i.e. throw on extra sweaters and turn the thermostat down), or switch to renewables. You know, solar and wind nirvana. What about when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow? Just do without. It’d only be for a few days at a time…
Nobody is better at understanding these people than Jim. He’s a very funny guy to boot. Who knew there was such a thing as the Lake Glimmerglass Loon, after all? He was referring to an Oneonta Daily Star article that including these revealing tidbits on the shallowness of the mobocracy that manipulates New York energy policy from Governor Corruptocrat at the top to local officials at the bottom:
More than 100 people attended the Oneonta Town Board meeting Wednesday night, many in protest of a potential plan that would increase the supply of natural gas in the city.
Jody Zakrevsky, chief executive officer of Otsego Now, opened the meeting with an explanation for his grant proposal of $3 million through the state’s Consolidated Funding Application toward siting a natural gas decompression station in Oneonta.
Trucks carrying compressed natural gas would make deliveries during the coldest weeks of the year to the decompressor, which could cost as much as $17 million. Zakrevsky identified Otsego Now’s Oneonta Business Park as a possible site and said he was soliciting bids for the project.
When temperatures dip below 15 degrees, several local businesses have to switch from natural gas to heating oil, which is more expensive and pollutes more, he said. Although New York State Electric and Gas filed plans with the state Public Service Commission in 2015 to replace the 8-inch-diameter DeRuyter natural gas line that runs from Norwich to Oneonta with a 10-inch pipeline by 2020, the project has been stalled. Local residents have still been charged higher rates for the past two years, he said.
The State University of New York at Oneonta, A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital and Lutz Feed Co. are among the local businesses on interruptible service during the cold snaps…
A.O. Fox Memorail Hospital, Oneonta, NY (Google Earth photo)
Residents of the county rose to sharply criticize the decompressor idea, with many also arguing that the actual service interruptions were negligible and not the responsibility of local government…
Speakers urged the board to consider renewable energy options for the sake of the city and the planet.
Ellen Pope, executive director of Otsego 2000, said that the affected businesses should consider retrofitting old buildings to save energy and explore geothermal and solar power, which can still be efficient during cold weather.
After several spoke about the possibility of solar and geothermal solutions, including one man who said he was a geologist, supervisor Robert Wood said that geothermal energy could be a consideration in plans to build a new highway garage.
Reread the bolded part. Did you notice the odd reference to “residents of the county”? Well, that’s because Cooperstown happens to be in the same county as Oneonta, although they’re 23+ miles apart. Cooperstown is where high society lives and vacations. It has a per capita income 2.5 times that of Oneonta. Cooperstown no more reflects Oneonta than New York resembles Texas.
More importantly, consider the absurdity of what is suggested. Suggesting solar as a way to meet peak energy needs in cold, cloudy, snow-covered Upstate New York is nothing less than bizarre, yet this is what these trendy true-believers suppose is reality. It only demonstrates how far they’re removed from it; victims of privilege that has, they also believe, entitled them to careers in virtue signaling. They’re trust-funders, an elitist mobocracy that has descended on New York energy policy-makers and created anarchy from top to bottom. Is there any hope left for the Empire State? Not much, it appears.
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