And yet you had no idea where I got the 80% figure? This is common knowledge to anyone who pays attention to energy policy.

Whether they will or won't meet their goals isn't the point. The point is, they have declared war on fossil fuels and have begun phasing out coal fired plants and nothing is happening or can happen quickly on the nuclear front. Millions of evs will be going onto the grid over the next 10 years. Several cities have begun banning or attempting to ban gas hookups in new buildings and/or gas stoves and heaters. it takes a lot of electricity to generate heat. We are lead by children with their heads in the clouds and we could be headed for energy rationing.

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By buying a solar array? I can afford it and even if I only ever need it as a backup system it is worth it to me to have uninterrupted power during the several outages we have here every year. I actually hope brownouts never come to pass and it's always just an emergency backup.

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Posted by Korkstand

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Posted on 7/17/23 at 11:36 pm to olgoi khorkhoi

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And yet you had no idea where I got the 80% figure? This is common knowledge to anyone who pays attention to energy policy.

Maybe if you didn't misunderstand/misrepresent what it refers to? What you stated is in no way based in reality. Not even close.

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Whether they will or won't meet their goals isn't the point. The point is, they have declared war on fossil fuels and have begun phasing out coal fired plants and nothing is happening or can happen quickly on the nuclear front. Millions of evs will be going onto the grid over the next 10 years. Several cities have begun banning or attempting to ban gas hookups in new buildings and/or gas stoves and heaters. it takes a lot of electricity to generate heat. We are lead by children with their heads in the clouds and we could be headed for energy rationing.

Stop with the sky-is-falling fearmongering BS. If you legitimately think that an economy-killing energy shortage via regulation is a possibility and that no one is going to say "hold up I think we need to turn the gas back on", then I don't know what to tell you other than please join me here in reality.