and_dont_blink t1_iuk3tia wrote
Reply to comment by itsonlyastrongbuzz in New England Utility Urges Biden to Declare Emergency to Avoid Fuel Shortage by Nobiting
Repealing the Jones Act would be beneficial to everyone, as noted in other comments it is a poster child for protectionism at it's worst. The cost savings for goods would apply across the board.
Even though I'm paying it, it's hard to feel bad for us in MA. We voted for these policies that ended up with us paying Hawaii prices, but Hawaii doesn't have a winter. Other parts of the nation had no clue prices spiked last winter, but MA went and Germany's itself and had people having to pay $800-$1k to heat their homes. No real solutions, we literally just didn't want pipelines because it would lower prices and encourage use and affect the environment, and I'd poorer people can't afford $550/mo to heat their apartment oh well someone richer can.
We've known this is coming for months, and it was just ignored. You never go full Germany, who is getting their LNG from the same places we are (Africa and Caribbean now, Russia previously) and tearing down turbines to reopen coal mines
itsonlyastrongbuzz t1_iuk7fz5 wrote
and_dont_blink t1_iuka3ui wrote
True, but there is the Kinder-Morgan pipeline, or any of the other projects including the nuclear plant? And then there's the fracking ban, which again Germany and the UK bought into after a huge push of propaganda often from Russian NGOs.
As a consequence, 2/3 of MA's energy generation is natural gas and we simply can't supply enough in the cold months via the SW pipeline, hence Russian tankers were sitting in the harbor to supply is us with LNG.
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