Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy.
Officials in the liberal enclave of Takoma Park, Maryland just outside of Washington, D.C. have proposed to take their crusade against fossil fuels to the next level, proposing to ban “all gas appliances, close fossil fuel pipelines, and move gas stations outside city limits by 2045.”
The estimated cost of implementing the policy for each resident in the town 17,000 is about $25,000. That’s rich, even for an inside the DC Beltway suburb.
But it would not be the first time a comparatively wealthy, and undoubtedly liberal, area has decided to ditch hydrocarbons. Berkeley, California lead the way last year, banning “the installation of natural gas lines in new homes.” Now, more than a score of cities and counties nationwide have followed.
Local governments are free to adopt such policies, just as voters are free to hold them accountable for any problems arising from those policies.
Or if that’s not enough, they can always vote with their feet, and seek out communities where the local government has more important things to do than micromanage resident’s lives.
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Yet you stupid fools keep (re)electing these IDIOT CONTROL freaks!!
I’m beginning to believe they are control freaks, controlling idiots!!
NO sympathy for the INSANITY for you people!!
Please think about this. You are abandoning your gas stove, gas hot water, gas dryer and other appliances for what? Clearly electric is the only non-offending option. And, just how do you think you get electricity? The electricity is dominantly generated using nice, clean gas fuel. The other options are coal, oil and nuclear. Clearly, they offend you doubly.
Think about the fact that you are not getting the heat to warm your homes, cook and power appliances from the gas heat source, but from electricity that is generated from gas. The process of generating electricity from gas is well less than 50% efficient by the time the power gets to your home. So you are getting electric heat at the expense of more than doubling the use of gas a few miles away from your home. If that makes sense to you, go hug a tree and hang on tight, for you re doomed.
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