Obama wants the Electric Reliability Corporation to stop assessing electric reliability

Obama is a freind of PM gillard she is doing the same in Australia A $23 per ton carbon tax on coal fired power stations in Australia starting date 1/7/2012 .WE all have to stop this tax before it is too late

As the Obama proclaimed a few months back in regards to the failed Cap&Trade bill, “it’s a means not an end. There’s more than one way to skin this cat.” The cat is being skinned. Anyone know what the price of whale oil is these days?

Werner Brozek says:
May 22, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Is this an obomination?
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I like it.

Our POTUS is not stupid. He’s is ideological. He is trying to do everything he promised during the ’08 campaign. Go back and watch his old speeches. He truly believes the US Constitution failed us when it did not include what the government should or must do ‘for’ the people. That all the wealth should be spread around. That life isn’t fair and the government should change that.
He believes in much of the ‘socialist doctrine.’ He a big government guy.

Is Obama all there mentally? He comes across as a bit dim-witted.

Ted says:
May 22, 2012 at 7:58 pm
“This is a war between a strong and recovering US and the left’s utopian vision, we can’t let this wrecking crew get away with it. ”
You’re not recovering. You’re inflating the US bond bubble, for the time being.

Tom J. above implies that Obama is an incompetent dufus. Wrong! Obama’s actions are deliberate and well calculated. He resents Americans’ first-world standard of living and the democratic capitalist system that has make us the envy of the world. He INTENDS to downgrade and humiliate our free society. He is a racist and a Marxist, and is deliberately pursuing polices of bankruptcy and chaos in the streets. A breakdown of our energy grid is a part of that agenda! The corrupt national press that hides these things from the public is more dangerous than Obama himself. Perhaps the time is upon us when the Tree of Liberty must be refreshed!

Tim Minchin says:
May 22, 2012 at 8:12 pm
Is Obama all there mentally? He comes across as a bit dim-witted.
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Right, but his handlers know he’ll do what they say…… even if they have to feed it to him through a teleprompter.
I’d like to take a moment to reflect on a bunch of pinheads who frequent here. Every time someone mentions politics they like to jump and harp that this is about science and that politics shouldn’t be brought up. Well, we see how vacant that was. Thanks to all of them who contributed such a weak and garbled message to the public that we have to endure this nonsense. Dolts.

The president of the United States is an enemy of the United States.

Well, in the ‘Bama’s view, the only position greater than he has would be ruling the entire world. The closest thing is UN Secretary General. Well it would be, if the US wasn’t so dominant. So rack up the debt, wreck the energy infrastructure, get Americans to accept they ain’t that great after all, no better than anyone else in the world actually, and what they get in life is what the government provides so demand the government gives you everything possible (that other people will pay for). Government alone is the source of all blessings, don’t you know.
Heck, the EU is looking strong too. So convince them to “take the lead” in trashing their energy infrastructure, to bail out that which should be allowed to go bankrupt, reject austerity measures that can save wealth and rebuild economies in favor of shoveling out made-up money for “stimulus” spending.
And just in case the US and EU should start getting uppity and forget their proper place, let enemy nations grow stronger and encourage some more to arise, work on permanently destabilizing the Middle East for oil price uncertainty, and develop a strong competitor on all fronts (political, economic, and militarily) by not complaining about China, let them do whatever they want with their own peasants (who aren’t necessarily people with rights) and around the world, even give them a direct lending line to the US Treasury, a “privilege” no other central bank has, so it doesn’t have to be revealed just how far the US is in debt to the Chinese government (and how much further it’s getting).
Yup, that should get him some support from those who otherwise wouldn’t want the former head of the “hated aggressor” from ruling the UN and the world. Good job, Barry.

James Sexton says:
May 22, 2012 at 8:55 pm
“I’d like to take a moment to reflect on a bunch of pinheads who frequent here. Every time someone mentions politics they like to jump and harp that this is about science and that politics shouldn’t be brought up. Well, we see how vacant that was. Thanks to all of them who contributed such a weak and garbled message to the public that we have to endure this nonsense. Dolts.”
James,
Amen. We have lots of folks preaching tolerance. Unfortunately, what you tolerate is what you get more of! Slipshod science, used to drive political agendas in the name of cleaning up the environment, was tolerated in the 70s and 80s. Look where we are now?!
An unvetted presidential candidate, espousing socialist dogma, rode a carefully cultured guilt reflex in the electorate to the White House. We were tolerant, to the very brink of breathtaking national stupidity and bankruptcy. Look where we are now?!
The November elections are a scant 6 months from now. Prepare to change this country for the better! Prepare like the very existence of our country depends on it.
MtK

if there isn’t a crisis then there is no need for change.
if allowed to continue I predict a call for nationalization of the energy sector because “free market has failed” “fat cats are taking to much” “profiteering” “the average man can no longer afford” “greedy corporations” pretty much insert any quote said about health care and insurance companies. History will repeat.

Follow the Money says:
May 22, 2012 at 9:28 pm
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Parts of part of us may want to agree with you.
Unthinkable realities require bold thought and action to insure paridigm shift.
Back up your words.
Examples of the failure of persons to accept the reality of their situation are legion.
Tell us…
s’il vous plait.

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jim says:
May 22, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Sort of makes one think Obama is taking the first steps towards DE-industrialization of our economy. Is this his great leap forward?
and Werner Brozek says:
May 22, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Is this an obomination?
Would this then be the desolation of the obama nation?
(cf abomination of the desolation)

Could be a good time to begin investing in Horses and oil lamps chaps. The sort I used to see in American movies in the 50’s.
The “feds” who are entrusted with the security and safety of the people who pay them seem to be running a different agenda.
May the force be with you. Same here in the UK

I’ve been telling a close friend (who said ‘lets give him (obama) a chance’) that blackout are coming his way. He doesn’t see it. But it does look like his Oh! Bummer! moment is coming…

Hats off to the poster repotting the forward PJM capacity markets. Here’s more:
Most of the coal plants meriting replacement will be done so with natural gas. New shale gas resource and last year’s soft winter have left the market with prices @$2.00/mcf. Bad news is that it takes about $5 gas to break even on recovery, hence Marcellus exploration has ground to a halt in the new plays. All of which means that the gas price, notorious for its price volatility will soon come roaring back with this new demand and normal weather.
With public policy (read permitting) favoring only gas and renewables we will find ourselves in an increasingly unstable generation supply condition.
Seasoned veterans understand the risk.
Of course, there is always hope (and change).

Mark and two Cats says:
May 22, 2012 at 9:13 pm
The president of the United States is an enemy of the United States.”
Just as the Prime Minister of Australia is an enemy of Australia.

Ordinary people have a simple choice: join the lunatics in the asylum … join their madness … or fight against their lunacy.
People have to stop pretending that this madness will ever stop until they have either taken over every government and non-governmental institution or until the economy is bankrupt from their insanity … or father nature starts cooling down.

I really don’t understand why so many of the world’s leading economic powers are collectively attempting to commit industrial suicide. Have they all forgotten that they are supposed to be putting the interests of their own countries before all others? Which involves looking at all side of a debate before coming up with econonically crippling policies, not just blindly accepting what a bunch of advocates are parroting and backing up with junk science.
I can’t help but feel there is more to this whole thing, over and above a carbon gravy train, than meets the eye…

PS: to BigBadBear says:
May 23, 2012 at 5:25 am
Read this published in 2008 from the Army War College:
From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age: The Decline of the State and U.S. Strategy
SUMMARY
Security and stability in the 21st century have little to do with traditional power politics, military conflict between states, and issues of grand strategy. Instead, they revolve around governance, public safety, inequality, urbanization, violent nonstate actors, and the disruptive consequences of globalization. This monograph seeks to explore the implications of these issues for the future U.S. role in the world, as well as for its military posture and strategy.
Underlying the change from traditional geopolitics to security as a governance issue is the long-term decline of the state. Despite state resilience, this trend could prove unstoppable. If so, it will be essential to replace dominant state-centric perceptions and assessments (what the author terms ?stateocentrism?) with alternative judgments acknowledging the reduced role and diminished effectiveness of states. This alternative assessment has been articulated most effectively in the notion of the New Middle Ages in which the state is only one of many actors, and the forces of disorder loom large. The concept of the New Middle Ages is discussed in Section II, which suggests that global politics are now characterized by fragmented political authority, overlapping jurisdictions, no-go zones, identity politics, and contested property rights.
Failure to manage the forces of global disorder, however, could lead to something even more forbidding?a New Dark Age. Accordingly, Section III identifies and elucidates key developments that are not only feeding into the long-term decline of the state but seem likely to create a major crisis of governance that could tip into the chaos of a New Dark Age. Particular attention is given to the inability of states to meet the needs of their citizens, the persistence of alternative loyalties, the rise of transnational actors, urbanization and the emergence of alternatively governed spaces, and porous borders. These factors are likely to interact in ways that could lead to an abrupt, nonlinear shift from the New Middle Ages to the New Dark Age. This will be characterized by the spread of disorder from the zone of weak states and feral cities in the developing world to the countries of the developed world. When one adds the strains coming from global warming and environmental degradation, the diminution of cheaply available natural resources, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the challenges will be formidable and perhaps overwhelming.
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?PubID=867

This report that NERC put out about FERC’s efficiency rules creating reliability problems may be the first remotely useful thing they’ve ever done.
I’m an electric utility engineer. The causes of reliability problems are not addressed in any way by NERC audits. The primary cause is the regulated private monopoly structure. It incentivizes for-profit utilities to let their system fail. Maintenance is a 100% cost-recoverable expense. Replacing failed equipment is a capital project that you can use to justify rate increases and take a profit against.
All NERC audits do is check to see if you’re aware that your equipment is failing. They don’t force you to do anything useful with that information.

This is some of the promised “fundamental change” and fits with the promise of “energy costs will necessarily sky-rocket.” No one should be surprised by these stories.
These promises were delivered before the last Presidential election. Still a majority of Americans voted FOR this radical agenda.
I wish the impending brownouts affect only blue states and DC.

BigBadBear says:
May 23, 2012 at 5:25 am
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I can’t help but feel there is more to this whole thing, over and above a carbon gravy train, than meets the eye…
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Why isn’t greed a big enough motive? The people involved in the gravy train stand to make mucho bucks at the expense of everyone else, so the simplest explanation is the best for most people involved.
However, as Curious George says, some of the people involved are obviously trying to de-industrialize at the same time due to their beliefs. Its important though to keep motives straight. For most people involved, the greed factor is what carries them on to being green. Until people stand up to this corporate hijacking and use their pocket-books to go after “green corporations” filling their snouts at the taxpayer troughs, what is to stop them?
Warren Buffet, GE, and others come to mind first. But there are many others and the gravy train goes a long way. These people are just greedy. Nothing less, nothing more. If you start boycotting and otherwise cause harm to their business where you can, you will make a difference and the companies will either change and become competitive again, or they will die out like most people involved in ponzi schemes when the money runs out.
Its all about the dollars and cents for the companies, so make them pay where you can and educate yourself on where to hurt these companies. Tell everyone the truth and more then anything list the bad things about these companies. If you follow the money trail it leads straight to Government hand-outs and the cronies themselves.
That, and yea voting Mr. “death to coal” out of office. Being president is where you stop being a brain-dead activist and start thinking about the consequences of your actions. And taking responsibility for ones actions.

Buy a generator, it’s what they do in the third world.

There’s more to the implications than just this. After the August 2003 NE North American grid collapse, the US and Canada agreed to a series of measures to ensure grid stability on both sides of the border, in particular those provinces and states that surround the Great Lakes. It should be remembered that this event was caused by the overload and collapse of a number of First Energy transmission lines in Ohio.
For the US, NERC was integral to providing data to both countries on US performance with respect to grid stability.
So, among many other implicaitons, Obama is also violation of an international agreement. But then after all the shabby treatment from this administration, i.e, Keystone, Canadians really don’t expect anything better.

My fear is that enough damage has already been done, or delayed consequences are already baked into the cake, that even if a competent opponent wins the next election he will be inheriting a booby trapped economy.
The resulting consequences will be blamed on the replacement not the morons that instituted the process of kicking the props out from under the economy and the current administration, their friends and the media will blame the failure on the replacement administration. Given their skill at propaganda they likely could convince enough useful idiots to vote the same agenda back into place in 4 years and in the process destroy the credibility of those who understand the problem and are trying to fix it for a generation.
The key to preventing that outcome is to break the monopoly of silence in the mainstream media and get the true state of affairs and who is to blame out in public view so it cannot be hidden in political spin to a generally unsophisticated and poorly educated electorate who have been conditioned to view media spin uncritically. Not only vote with your wallet regarding all the folks skimming the hand outs but we need to slap the media up side the head some how to get them back to proper investigative reporting. Where, who is the 21’st century’s Edward R. Murrow who will insist on good journalism?
Larry