{"id":136661,"date":"2018-06-01T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136661"},"modified":"2018-06-04T07:18:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:18:11","slug":"regulation-and-price-fixing-and-socialism-are-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/01\/regulation-and-price-fixing-and-socialism-are-bad.html","title":{"rendered":"Regulation and Price Fixing and Socialism Are Bad!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Except, of course, when they’re apparently not.<\/p>\n

(The assertion, by the by, that nuclear and coal-fired plants are immune to natural disasters and can just keep on chugging out energy in case of one, appears<\/a> to be dubious, e.g. ,, https:\/\/www.nirs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/factsheets\/naturaldisaster&nuclearpower.pdf<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Stan Pedzick<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

I love how so called \u201cfree market\u201d conservatives will do the complete opposite at the drop of a hat. Also, this should provide much entertainment as the entire power industry sues the DOE so that they do not have to raise rates to buy expensive power.<\/p>\n

Of course, the easiest solution, the one that conservatives will not do, would be to buy and operate the aging expensive facilities themselves if they were so concerned about it. The USBR already operates almost every major hydro facility in the US, so it would be easy for them to drop a billion dollars to buy these plants and maintain and run them in case of an emergency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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\nTrump Prepares Lifeline for Money-Losing Coal Power Plants<\/a><\/span>
\nTrump administration officials are making plans to order grid operators to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear plants in an effort to extend their life, a move that could represent an unprecedented intervention into U.S. energy markets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Except, of course, when they’re apparently not. (The assertion, by the by, that nuclear and coal-fired plants are immune to natural disasters and can just keep on chugging out energy in case of one, appears to be dubious, e.g. ,, https:\/\/www.nirs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/factsheets\/naturaldisaster&nuclearpower.pdf .) Originally shared by +Stan Pedzick: I love how so called \u201cfree market\u201d conservatives … Continue reading “Regulation and Price Fixing and Socialism Are Bad!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,77,131,63,374],"tags":[1253],"class_list":["post-136661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-economy","category-energy","category-environment","category-money-politics","tag-coal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/power-plant-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43371,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/06\/rolling-coal.html","url_meta":{"origin":136661,"position":0},"title":"Rolling Coal","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Jul-14 5:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, heck, if you want to burn money (and increase your engine maintenance), I suppose the joke's on you -- but the mean-spiritedness of this just strikes me as sad, pathetic, and (sadly-not-only-)self-destructive.\ufeff The\u00a0Conservatives Who Rebel Against\u00a0Obama by Blowing Diesel Smoke at Priuses Forty-five second YouTube clips don\u2019t come any\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41879,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/30\/the-supreme-court-deals-another-jab-at-coal.html","url_meta":{"origin":136661,"position":1},"title":"The Supreme Court deals another jab at coal","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Apr-14 4:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It backed, 6-2, an EPA rule that basically said, \"Hey, your pollution doesn't stop at the state line.\" \u00a0I know, crazy idea, right?Coal-power state reps were ticked off that this will add to the cost of coal-fired energy, because the plants will have to add further scrubbers. 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