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After Rising For 100 Years, Electricity Demand is Flat (vox.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The US electricity sector is in a period of unprecedented change and turmoil. Renewable energy prices are falling like crazy. Natural gas production continues its extraordinary surge. Coal, the golden child of the current administration, is headed down the tubes. In all that bedlam, it's easy to lose sight of an equally important (if less sexy) trend: Demand for electricity is stagnant. Thanks to a combination of greater energy efficiency, outsourcing of heavy industry, and customers generating their own power on site, demand for utility power has been flat for 10 years, and most forecasts expect it to stay that way. The die was cast around 1998, when GDP growth and electricity demand growth became "decoupled." This historic shift has wreaked havoc in the utility industry in ways large and small, visible and obscure. Some of that havoc is high-profile and headline-making, as in the recent requests from utilities (and attempts by the Trump administration) to bail out large coal and nuclear plants.
Oh for fuck's sake.. if you're going to troll the Trump supporters, could you at least be bothered to try? That was pathetically weak.
Um, *we* didn't do anything. Super rich oligarchs moved production overseas because labor is cheaper and laws are more lenient.
Oh for the love of God. You are just as bad at "facts" as our president. Making it all caps doesn't make it more true.
The fact is that the Russians TRIED to influence our election. There is tons of proof of that. What we dont have proof of is that their attempts changed the result of the election. Not saying it didn't, just that its not something that has been "proven." Im completely ready to believe that we legitimately have enough idiots to vote the man in.
Prediction: The moment that the Republicans get trashed in the midterm elections the Republicans will start screaming about how Russian meddling has screwed up the mid term elections.
a continued line of thought would be : they were all put into power by BANKs.
WE regulated to the extent that production of products became too expensive.
WE also loosed trade laws to make manufacturing more cost effective overseas.
WE also seem to be fighting any efforts to put tariffs on products from over seas.
And finally, WE purchase these products.
So unless you are living in a cave, eating stick and twigs, and walking everywhere you go, you have a part in all of this.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I'm sorry, but we are only guilty of one of those and that's of purchasing those products. The government did all of those other things because they were paid to do so by rich people. You overestimate the power of the people. It's interesting though that everywhere they blame the government when the government does something wrong. But in the US, everyone blames the people for when the government does something wrong. Or more frequently, we just blame the other party.