Republican state Sen. Jesse Bjorkman says a bill in his committee that sets green power targets for electric utilities is "going nowhere." But lobbyists are lining up to push it forward.
If we aren't past peak oil, we're pretty darn close which means declining use of oil/gas as a longterm energy source. Some of the new oil/gas fields being touted as a savior to the state budget won't come online for at least 3-4 years, if not longer. Will we even still have a market? I'd like to see us do some work with renewables.
We aren't anywhere close to "peak oil". The world has more oil than water, it's created in the earth's mantle via serpentinization. The reason why Alaska oil & gas production has been declining is that the Federal government has been prohibiting it, and the globalists have been trying to make it uninvestable via futures market shenanigans and lawfare.
Lawyers and lobbyists should always be discounted for anything they say or represent. Micro Nuclear is very interesting. Nu Scale from Portland Or is on the forefront of that particular endeavor. Just wait until Hillcorp offers up new gas contracts at double the price or more relatively soon. This legislative body along with the Governor are up to their eyeballs 👀 in denial of what’s coming round the bend. We just need all out war worldwide to save our “new” economic model of spending 1:2 the earnings reserve to fund the already bloated state government. $80,000 now and all state employees got a 20% hike too. This state is eating itself alive. Thanks Bill Walker you started it!
So basically force the utilities to use uneconomical and inconsistent wind and solar, because the free market wouldn't choose it themselves? Please, let's not follow the suicidal California path....
Texas is the US state with the largest production (by KW hrs) of renewable energy. California is second with less than half the production of Texas.
(https://www.fool.com/research/renewable-energy-by-state/#:~:text=Texas%20produces%20the%20most%20renewable,%2Dhours)%20of%20any%20state.)
Federal and state incentives play a role in renewables, as they do in non-renewables.
If we aren't past peak oil, we're pretty darn close which means declining use of oil/gas as a longterm energy source. Some of the new oil/gas fields being touted as a savior to the state budget won't come online for at least 3-4 years, if not longer. Will we even still have a market? I'd like to see us do some work with renewables.
We aren't anywhere close to "peak oil". The world has more oil than water, it's created in the earth's mantle via serpentinization. The reason why Alaska oil & gas production has been declining is that the Federal government has been prohibiting it, and the globalists have been trying to make it uninvestable via futures market shenanigans and lawfare.
Lawyers and lobbyists should always be discounted for anything they say or represent. Micro Nuclear is very interesting. Nu Scale from Portland Or is on the forefront of that particular endeavor. Just wait until Hillcorp offers up new gas contracts at double the price or more relatively soon. This legislative body along with the Governor are up to their eyeballs 👀 in denial of what’s coming round the bend. We just need all out war worldwide to save our “new” economic model of spending 1:2 the earnings reserve to fund the already bloated state government. $80,000 now and all state employees got a 20% hike too. This state is eating itself alive. Thanks Bill Walker you started it!
It would be interesting to do a thorough review of Bjorkman’s campaign donors/amounts to see whose water he might be carrying.
So basically force the utilities to use uneconomical and inconsistent wind and solar, because the free market wouldn't choose it themselves? Please, let's not follow the suicidal California path....