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[deleted] t1_iwzwrb8 wrote

Reply to comment by youngestalma in Saturday Morning email from State rep Harry Arora about increases in electricity and natural gas prices by mynameisnotshamus

This whole post is the problem that we face on a daily basis: total disregard for long term sustainability and cost. Everyone looks at the short term problems and looks for short term solutions (pension funds, twitter, basically any company cutting headcount right now). We need to be working towards long term stability. Is it painful right now? Absolutely. Eversource should be cutting into their profits if it is this bad.

Fossil fuel infrastructure is expensive AF to maintain. Nuclear is not hugely different but is a better stop gap towards fully renewable energy generation. There are problems with waste disposal BUT if it is used as a filler while the 15-20 year plans are worked out, then fine.

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Myotherside t1_ix3n3pb wrote

Considering the billion dollars in extra money we are spending, it seems like we could have our own dedicated LNG tanker/local storage facility that does nothing but transport gas from TX/LA export terminals straight to us.

But that wouldn’t provide a long term infrastructure advantage for oil companies to use to prevent competition from renewables, so we know where that idea will go.

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