re: Entergy Bills out of control

Eh, because the costs of "renewables" is higher than the cost of organic natural gas. I know you don't care or won't read, but we gotta have receipts for five years from now. We're the Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas (and nearly for coal,) but let's ignore both, ignore nuke, and start killin some whales, brah!

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he good that comes to energy consumers and society from natural gas far exceeds the bad. Natural gas has:

abundant domestic availability
low prices for the foreseeable future
relative cleanliness compared to other fossil fuels
promising technological prospects (e.g., blue hydrogen) for a more benign environmental footprint
flexibility in electric power production, one application being a back-?up to renewable energy
economic use across a wide range of consumers and energy services
It seems absurd to ban or even restrict a product that has done, and is expected in the future to do, so much good for both energy consumers and the economy.

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Didn't Babblin Blanco "invest" state money in ethanol production Yeah.. It's neither here nor there, I'm sure. Except that shite went nowhere and failed, because it wasn't economically viable, which should be the death knell of anything, and everything.

MOOOAR.

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Thompson said the state entering the ethanol market ahead of other Southern states is futuristic. It positions us well for both petroleum and ethanol refineries. We're going to see a lot of activity. It's common sense to be producing alternative fuels with renewable resources. It will give us a better economic edge for the future but it's not going to replace petroleum. I predict there will be more and more petroleum companies that own ethanol plants.

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So why did it require state subsidies in order to fail?

Go ahead, blame COVID, that's y'alls default for ignoring reality.

Suck it.

Continuing ignoring reality.

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An ethanol plant built in the late ’80s and upgraded to 66 MMgy in 2005 is now on the auction block. South Louisiana Ethanol LLC, located in Jesuit Bend, La., hasn’t been in operation for years, but could be—if it’s purchased at auction by someone intending to run it as an ethanol plant. “That’s the hope,” said Dan Rosenthal, chief operating officer for Schneider Industries, the company handling the auction. The facility would need a significant amount of work to operate as an ethanol plant because it isn't fully equiped.

The plant originally had a capacity of 44 MMgy but struggled with fermentation bugs. After it ceased production it was purchased by South Louisiana Ethanol, which upgraded the plant to 66 MMgy, Rosenthal told EPM. However, that company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August 2009, never having achieved ethanol production at the revamped facility.

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BTW, oil and natural gas are as organic as ethanol is. Carbon based feedstock, energy at the end. I'm not an engineer, but I'd rather rely on bedrock to do the dirty deed than using energy from *somewhere* to build and maintain bullshite "renewables."

Stuff is always dying, including plants, and sinking into bogs to be turned into oil/NatGas. That's renewable. "Fossil fuels" is a bullshite lefty label applied to get people to dislike it.