- Via NPR: Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation.
- Via Fox11: City council cracks down on ‘vulgar’ merchandise at popular beach destination.
- Via WUSA: Reservations plunge across DC restaurants after Trump’s police takeover.
- Via WaPo: Covid is rising. New vaccines may not be ready until mid-September.
- Via the AP: Trump administration halts visas for people from Gaza after Laura Loomer questions arrivals.
- Via Politico: Russia is quietly churning out fake content posing as US news.
- Via the AP: Republicans look to make a U-turn on federal commitment to electric vehicles for the Postal Service.
- Via The Atlantic: What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker. There are both a number of disturbing parallels as well as a reminder of how far, thankfully, the current administration has not gone.
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Re: the NPR link about electricity costs–remember, one of the programs that has already been eliminated is LIHEAP. The low income home energy assistance program helps vulnerable people keep their electricity on, and it literally saves lives. If we have a bad winter, this is really going to be a problem.
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@Kylopod:..negative impact on the tourist business as well.
Why pass up a chance to be arraigned and fingerprinted in the same courthouse that processed Trump after his goon squad arrests you for spitting on the sidewalk?
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@Kylopod: Agreed. I’m in NH, and we are seeing a spate of closings of smaller restaurants/bakeries/etc. Almost all of them cite a dip in business this summer as a reason. I can’t help but think that’s due to the loss of Canadian tourists who are typically here in the summer season. Whether it’s troops marching in completely safe areas in DC or no tourists from Canada, this administration is bad for small businesses.
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@steve222:
The consumers used as an example are in Florida. Some of the Florida utilities are required to purchase power from the Vogtle 3 and 4 nuclear power facility. Vogtle 3 and 4 are delivering by far the most expensive power in Georgia, probably true for Florida as well.
My little local power authority — a non-profit owned by four municipal utilities here in northern Colorado — finished turning up their new solar farm this month. We are seeing brief periods where 100% of the owner community load is provided by hydro, wind, and solar. Those periods will get longer as we move into fall, when the wind blows more consistently and peak load declines.
