This seems to me to be an effort to force their nature killing and inefficient wind turbines for electric generation on us.
It has long been known that the wind turbines kill birds, especially the national bird, the Bald Eagle. They fly into the turning blades and get ended right then and there. Now we are finding off the coast of NJ that the sea-based turbines also kill nature, as we are now up to 7 dead whales washed ashore there. Meanwhile, they are outlawing offshore fishing to "protect the whales" - the same whales they are killing themselves with their wind-farms.
I'll be screwed. Not only me personally, but also the local economy in some of the "marginalized" areas they keep harping on about. They killed the local economy here with their war on coal. once already. So we moved to gas drilling, and now they are coming for that, too. In parts of West Virginia, the drilling contracts allow the landowner to tap the well heads for personal use gas, so folks in those areas get free gas. As a result, there are people there whose entire existence in the modern world hinges on being able to use gas. They have gas heat, gas stoves, even gas-powered appliances. I know folks who have gas-powered refrigerators! This would put an end to their existence in the modern world, and throw them back 200 years. Their economy is already trashed, and there is just no way they would be able to afford the electricity or the replacement appliances, especially the way inflation is striking.
My heat is gas. Not just a cooking stove, but a big-ol' open faced gas heater. Gas feeds into a grid that is about 2' x 3', the pilot ignites it, and the heat radiates outward from that, with a ceiling fan above the heater to force the heat downward and outward, circulating it into the rest of the house. If they outlaw dinky-assed gas stove burners, I'm sure they'll go after those big ol' open faced heaters, too, and leave us out in the cold.
Then I'd have to get two wood-burners, locate the flue holes in the chimneys that have been covered over for decades now, open them back up, and sweep the chimney of birds nests and bee nests... then install the stoves and cut the wood. I have plenty of wood to cut, but it's "on the hoof" so to speak, and the cutting and splitting and hauling would likely be more than my old, worn-out carcass could handle at this stage of life
So, yeah, the end of me is built-in to this silly notion of theirs, not to mention wrecking toe local economy... yet again. This IS one of those "marginalized, economically depressed" areas they keep harping on about, and yet they are the very ones that come in and occasionally wreck the economy here. I've never noticed them coming in to "help" us - despite the empty promises LBJ made when he started his "war on poverty" 60 years ago in Ashland, KY. Instead of a "war on poverty", it appears to us that when he really meant was a "war on poor folks", and subsequent administrations have merely kept that same war on poor folks rolling merrily along.
So, for some folks out there, this means far more than just not being able to grill a steak over a gas flame in the kitchen - it means an entire setback to Iron Age living, yet again... and it seems like a pretty targeted attack on us to achieve that result.
Fuck 'em. We survived here centuries before there even was a BidenHarris, and we will continue to survive centuries after those useless wastes of skin are gone. We are not as easy to wipe out as they think we are - making life tough for people here is not a means to eliminate us, it's a just a means to make us tougher and more resilient... and more resentful and pissed off. That might not go so well for them when they come in to take over the leftovers of their planned conquest.
There is a reason that elections here regularly go 80% to 90% Republican - for all their faults, at least the Republicans are not actively trying to kill us off.
We can see, plainly, who IS trying to accomplish that.
.
It has long been known that the wind turbines kill birds, especially the national bird, the Bald Eagle. They fly into the turning blades and get ended right then and there. Now we are finding off the coast of NJ that the sea-based turbines also kill nature, as we are now up to 7 dead whales washed ashore there. Meanwhile, they are outlawing offshore fishing to "protect the whales" - the same whales they are killing themselves with their wind-farms.
I'll be screwed. Not only me personally, but also the local economy in some of the "marginalized" areas they keep harping on about. They killed the local economy here with their war on coal. once already. So we moved to gas drilling, and now they are coming for that, too. In parts of West Virginia, the drilling contracts allow the landowner to tap the well heads for personal use gas, so folks in those areas get free gas. As a result, there are people there whose entire existence in the modern world hinges on being able to use gas. They have gas heat, gas stoves, even gas-powered appliances. I know folks who have gas-powered refrigerators! This would put an end to their existence in the modern world, and throw them back 200 years. Their economy is already trashed, and there is just no way they would be able to afford the electricity or the replacement appliances, especially the way inflation is striking.
My heat is gas. Not just a cooking stove, but a big-ol' open faced gas heater. Gas feeds into a grid that is about 2' x 3', the pilot ignites it, and the heat radiates outward from that, with a ceiling fan above the heater to force the heat downward and outward, circulating it into the rest of the house. If they outlaw dinky-assed gas stove burners, I'm sure they'll go after those big ol' open faced heaters, too, and leave us out in the cold.
Then I'd have to get two wood-burners, locate the flue holes in the chimneys that have been covered over for decades now, open them back up, and sweep the chimney of birds nests and bee nests... then install the stoves and cut the wood. I have plenty of wood to cut, but it's "on the hoof" so to speak, and the cutting and splitting and hauling would likely be more than my old, worn-out carcass could handle at this stage of life
So, yeah, the end of me is built-in to this silly notion of theirs, not to mention wrecking toe local economy... yet again. This IS one of those "marginalized, economically depressed" areas they keep harping on about, and yet they are the very ones that come in and occasionally wreck the economy here. I've never noticed them coming in to "help" us - despite the empty promises LBJ made when he started his "war on poverty" 60 years ago in Ashland, KY. Instead of a "war on poverty", it appears to us that when he really meant was a "war on poor folks", and subsequent administrations have merely kept that same war on poor folks rolling merrily along.
So, for some folks out there, this means far more than just not being able to grill a steak over a gas flame in the kitchen - it means an entire setback to Iron Age living, yet again... and it seems like a pretty targeted attack on us to achieve that result.
Fuck 'em. We survived here centuries before there even was a BidenHarris, and we will continue to survive centuries after those useless wastes of skin are gone. We are not as easy to wipe out as they think we are - making life tough for people here is not a means to eliminate us, it's a just a means to make us tougher and more resilient... and more resentful and pissed off. That might not go so well for them when they come in to take over the leftovers of their planned conquest.
There is a reason that elections here regularly go 80% to 90% Republican - for all their faults, at least the Republicans are not actively trying to kill us off.
We can see, plainly, who IS trying to accomplish that.
.