Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida — who co-founded the Climate Solutions Caucus and introduced a CO2 tax bill — lost. Maybe it was Curbelo’s desire to pointlessly raise electricity costs. Maybe voters rejected his appeasement strategy. Maybe both. Maybe neither. Either way, energy price-raising climate alarmism is not a winning political strategy.
Source: Axios.com
Crusading climateer and billionaire Tom Steyer spent $23.6 million in this losing effort.
Source: Results.Arizona.vote
Not even close in a blue state. Yet US electric utilities are using make-believe projections of CO2 taxes when they falsely claim that closing coal plants saves ratepayers money.
Source: Washington.gov
No. Nameplate capacity is not the same as generation. Actual UK generation is 51% coal/gas and less than 20% wind/solar. As limited as it is, UK wind/solar foolishness has already helped make UK electricity twice as expensive as US electricity.
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The levelized cost of electricity from existing coal plants is about $39.90/MWh. The levelized cost for a new combined cycle gas plant is $55.5o/MWh. Duke Energy defames coal so its customers can pay more for electricity while getting no benefits in return. With gas demand increasing, these costs are only going up over the long-term. It’s some expensive virtue-signaling from Duke management.
