Current Situation: Staring down an energy crisis

Submitted by CTInsideInvestigator t3_10p1vfp in Connecticut

U.S. residents used about 3.9 trillion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity in 2021, a 13-fold increase since 1950. The amount of electricity we use is only expected to increase in the coming decades as well, rising to about 5.1 trillion kWh by 2050.

A steadily increasing demand for power will mean greater strain on aging energy systems, and big questions for consumers worried about rising costs.

Connecticut is trapped between a rock and a hard place.

https://insideinvestigator.org/current-situation-staring-down-an-energy-crisis/

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j6i45oz wrote

Fucking Yankee Institute.

Eversource's price gouging of the residents of Connecticut is a direct result of the corporate propaganda pushed out by trash "think tanks," such as this one, funded by the billionaire class for the sole purpose to trick poor people into cutting their taxes and deregulating big business.

Anti American fucking hacks. Hope y'all are the first to be eaten when the class war comes.

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MyGodItsFullOfClowns t1_j6hwq6i wrote

For anyone who doesn't know, /r/CTinsideinvestigator is just the Yankee Institute trying to obscure it's origins, disregard anything it says.

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Thermite1985 t1_j6jyfei wrote

Nuclear is the only way to keep up with needs while green technology catches up. It's also the cleanest of any of the power generators.

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TituspulloXIII t1_j6i3w4v wrote

Maybe, someday we'll get Wind power off of Cape Cod, or in the Long Island sound.

But that's going to be up to the government doing something or somehow people stop being NIMBYs

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pesto05 t1_j6ie1c0 wrote

meh. it'll be fine

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nuttmegganarchist t1_j6k4pfz wrote

Yankee Institute is nothing but shameful propaganda written by people who don’t give a damn about poor people

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WellSeasonedUsername t1_j6lvxe8 wrote

Sorry what is the yankee institute?

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nuttmegganarchist t1_j6msr8p wrote

It’s a shitty “think tank” if you can even call it that. They try to sway policy makers in the northeast to increase the wealth of the upper class in the region

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WellSeasonedUsername t1_j6nkdgb wrote

Weird. Democrats do that too, isn’t Lamont like a millionaire living in the governor’s mansion on prospect Ave in hartford? Blumenthal and Chris Murphy are pretty rich too

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nuttmegganarchist t1_j6ntvfr wrote

What’s weird is that you bring a whataboutism when talking about a think tank that right wing policy makers listen to more than their own constituents. But at the end of the day both parties are very problematic it different ways.

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