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Originally Posted by Sue Doe-Nym
I repeat…..ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, once reversed, played a huge part in this mess! That is all I have to say on the subject….period.
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That would be personal behavior... anyone can go off grid.
If you are talking nationally... the US is ENERGY INDEPENDENT.
We ship more LNG and petroleum distillates overseas than we have any other time in history in the last six months.
Since we will be losing more refining capacity in the future... the Houston refinery will shutdown at the end of 2023 because the price of gasoline and other distillates are too low to attain the needed ROI. The option is to cut usage.
Electric vehicles grid tied, will overwhelm the grid. Changing to higher CAFE standards will not have an immediate effect... so removing recreational usage of gasoline would be the broadest solution.
The federal government doesn't have that power... so it would be a State government decision. They will forgo it, simply by seeking to blame the federal government.
For electricity, the federal government could vote to repeal the Jones Act and change the 2018 policy. It would mean the EU would fall to Russia, and we may have to send troops in the future... but the US would see better prices as market demand would be sequestered when exports are removed creating a large glut in the US.
It probably would not have the huge effect on NH as might be hoped... in that we never build the KM pipeline expansion to bring more natural gas to our State. That limits infrastructure build out in natural gas and results in higher prices in winter months due to heating demand.