Democrat-ruled NYC council bans use of natural gas in new construction, punishing residents. Council: "Huh?"

You already know you're being ruled by corrupt idiots, but you rarely see such a clear example as what happened last week in New York City.

The leftist/socialist morons on the city council passed a city ordinance banning the use of natural gas in most new construction.  Their new RULE forces all future construction to use electricity for stoves, heating buildings and water heaters.

They did that because they claim banning gas will "substantially slash greenhouse-gas emissions" that they think are causing global warming.  Since leftists totally believe that CO2 is causing the planet to warm, this allows the council members to signal their virtue to their base.  "We CARE about the Earth, so keep electing us!"

The council members have no idea what their dumb-ass vote will really do.  They relied on a report from a corrupt leftist "think-tank," so there's no need for them to actually understand any of the icky *numbers* or actual science here.  It's all about virtue-signalling and *feeewings.*  So let me explain how this astonishingly dumb RULE will hurt residents of NYC--most of whom will richly deserve it for electing the communist Democrats in the first place.

The ban will trigger several problems, all of which will be painful for city residents.  First, the energy supplied by natural gas will have to be replaced by electricity.  And where does that electricity come from?  In NYC it's 29% nuclear, 11% hydroelectric, and the rest--60%--from either...natural gas or coal.

Dumb-as-a-rock city council member: "SEE, we can replace icky, planet-killing gas with wonderful nuclear and hydro!  We'll be saving the planet!  Yay me!"

Uh, no.  In case you haven't noticed, all the useful hydro sites within 600 miles of NYC are already dammed and being used.  No more expansion there.  And if you think the leftist enviroweenies will allow any more nukes to be built, you're nuts.  In fact the leftists are forcing nuclear powerplants to be shut down, claiming they're unsafe.

So if NYC can't get any more electricity from nuclear or hydro, where do the council morons think the extra electricity will come from to replace the energy currently supplied by natural gas, eh?  

"Um...uh...Think-tank guys say don't worry about that!  Think-tank say electricity reduce deadly CO2 emissions, save planet, get us reelected, so that's the overriding goal!  Cuz we CARE about the planet!"

Actually the heating energy from directly burning gas on-site will be replaced by burning gas 80 miles away to make electricity.  So no reduction in CO2 at all.

In fact, the new order will end up producing MORE CO2.  Dem council member: "You lie!  We smaht, you not smaht!  We have think-tank!  You no have think-tank.  They smaht!"

Really, sparky?  Consider this: when you burn gas on-site to, say, heat a building, most of the energy in the gas is used to heat the building.  But despite the best engineering, when gas is used to generate electricity, only about 40% of the energy in the gas turns into electrical energy.  Another ten percent of the energy is lost transmitting the electricity from the generating plant to the user.

Dem council member: "Wait...we'll use SOLAR!  Yeh, dat's it!  So there!  We smaht!"

Really?  NY has lots of cloudy days, when solar doesn't produce much energy.  So how do you plan to heat those buildings and get hot water when it's cloudy, eh?

Dem: "Think-tank will tell us!  Cuz dey mus' know all 'bout cloudy days."

Really?  Well when they tell you the solution, do post it on the internet, cuz we're all waiting to hear it.

Finally: While it's possible to heat homes and buildings with electric "heat pumps" with decent efficiency, those devices can't produce the temperatures needed for stoves or hot water.  The only way to get those high temps is "resistance heating."  When you do that, the cost per "megajoule" (a standard unit of heat) of heat is about $38 for electricity, compared to $19 or so for gas.  So when it comes to heat for cooking or hot water, electricity is twice as expensive per MJ.

This is why the cunning rat-bastard commies of the city council specifically exempted hospitals, commercial kitchens and laundromats from their ORDER, since those places use so much heat, so their energy costs would essentially double.

So guess who *won't* be exempt:  People who build office buildings or new homes.  So for new homes or commercial buildings, take your monthly gas bill, double it and add it to your electricity bill.  In other words, you'll be paying a lot more for the same result.

Neat, eh?

Think the rat-bastards knew this?  Who knows, but you can be sure that if they did, they didn't care.  Cuz "We CARE about saving the planet from dat AWFUL CO2, citizen!"

Here's how well the spinmeisters cover for each other: When CNBC--a leftist shithole--reported this story, they didn't say a word about the effect on energy costs.  Quite the contrary, they said "Residents who currently have gas stoves and heaters in their homes will not be impacted unless they relocate to a new building."

Really?  Consider this: If the demand for electricity goes way up (to replace gas), with no new sources of electricity, what do you think that will do to the *price* of electricity?

Council member: "Huh?  Wha..?  Dere wouldn't be no change, dummy!  Stuff costs what it costs, don' mattah if yew use a lot or a li'l.  Gosh, yew engineers are so dumb!"

Ah, I see.  Obviously you've never heard about "the law of supply and demand."

But CNBC assures us that forcing electricity use to increase significantly won't cause any shortages, because...wait for it...Dem pols have passed a LAW making this unpossible.

That's right.  CNBC *assures* NYC residents that "Today’s ban will likely push forward a New York state *requirement* to obtain 70% of its electricity from renewable sources like solar, wind and water power by 2030."

Hmm... today the city gets 29% of its electricity from nuclear, 11% from hydro, for a total of 40%.  The pols wanna increase the percentage of electricity from what CNBC calls "renewable sources" to 70% in just 8 years--with no new hydro sources being available.  That means getting TWICE as much from nuclear plants.  (And just for the record, nuclear fuel isn't "renewable energy.")

But the greenies are shutting down those plants, and blocking anyone from building new ones.  So how the hell do you think that's gonna work, eh?

This is what you're up against, folks: morons, bleating and issuing orders.


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