PSNH rates go up–anyone surprised?

Thanks to the government the cost of living and doing business in New Hampshire just went up again.

It goes like this.  In 2007 the state mandated that by 2025 providers get 25% of the energy they provide from renewable sources (Wood, wind, solar, etc) and that process (its called RPS, the Regional Portfolio Standard) is already under way .  This  Jan 1st 2009 we began the RGGI cap and trade scheme which requires energy providers to buy carbon credits quarterly whose increased costs are also passed on to rate payers.

So these government mandates are now pig-piling on top of your lifestyle, in a down economy no less, during a ten year cooling trend, all to solve a problem that doesn’t even appear to exist.    How bad is it–get the numbers on the jump.

Poked right in the RGGI

Tom Fahey reported in this Sunday’s Union Leader, that Linda Hodgdon, the State’s Administrative Services commissar had floated a trial balloon on the status of the estimated 18 million the PUC could net from its upcoming regional carbon credits auction this year.  Lynch’s team is looking for money and RGGI might just be sitting there like a shiny penny on the side walk.  Hodgdon, being a good bureaucrat–one who can always find ways to spend money she doesn’t have yet–wants to pick it up and put it in her pocket.

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Lorne Gunter: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof

Posted: October 20, 2008, 10:26 AM by Kelly McParland

Lorne Gunter, Ful Comment

 

In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since it is hard for skeptical scientists to get published in the cabal of climate journals now controlled by the Great Sanhedrin of the environmental movement.

 

Still, the number of climate change skeptics is growing rapidly. Because a funny thing is happening to global temperatures — they’re going down, not up.

(More on the jump) 

Under new management–PLEASE!

Gov. Lynch’s almost-ignored approval of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) a few months back is indicative of how the cataracts have grown wildly across New Hampshire’s traditional vision of a limited and responsible government.  RGGI will make energy in New Hampshire more expensive and no one can dispute that. The research shows it, even tries to write it off as a wash because the State will get increased revenue from it.   

 

Since Lynch has condoned laundering tax money through the energy companies, in the form of increased energy prices to consumers–that happen to relate directly to how much more money ends up in the state coffers–is anyone in the press going to question this backhanded abandonment of his promise to veto a broad based tax?  This is a broad based tax.  And why is a state that is currently begging for federal fuel aid like some Dickensian orphan, signed on to a program that is almost guaranteed to make that need greater each and every year?   

 

We’re getting Lynch’d.

The democrats had two years to send us a message about their ideas on good governance, and that message appears to be pay up.

 

 

EVIL!

The Evil oil speculators have “speculated” the price of oil back down to $113/barrel, a $34/barrel drop from its high of around $147 a few weeks ago when Chancellor Pelosi claimed Bush’s lifting the off-shore drilling restriction was a meaningless gesture. (Unlike her two years as Speaker).  What I find most amusing about this is that one of the many stupid democrat excuses for high gas prices was that speculators were getting rich off the middle class.  But even as the price of oil goes down, the evil oil speculators are still getting rich.  You see Nancy, the selling price is not what makes them rich, it’s the speculating on where the price will go next that makes them rich.   George Bush said see I’m serious about increasing supply, they guessed the price would go down…tap tap…is this thing turned on?

So should we now speculate that there will be a litany of moans and groans from Democrats about how “evil oil speculators are getting rich off the middle class by driving down the price of oil?”  Of course not it’s an obvious lie; as opposed to their previous misrepresentation of the facts for political points. (also known as a lie)  Of course it is entirely possible that some of the dumbo-crats who just blindly toe the party line (Carol Shea-Porter and Jeanne Shaheen come immediately to mind) really do just that, without any introspection or independent fact checking whatsoever.  Speculators do what? 

This is hardly a flattering trait for someone you have appointed to represent your interests, because it proves they are more than willing to ignore your interests, and run off and sell whatever the party tells them to sell you, or more likely what the greenbacked green PAC’s want them to sell you.  Bought and sold takes on a whole new meaning. Doesn’t seem too hard to see whose really evil here.