There is no better way to insulate yourself from global oil & gas price volatility than to invest in technologies that generate useful heat & power without any oil & gas input. The Trump WH attack on renewables is a direct attack on your economic security.
And I feel compelled to make the regular prebuttal to anyone arguing that wind, solar, battery, etc technology depends on overseas inputs: the US hasn’t manufactured steam turbine casings in years. Which are needed for every coal plant and combined cycle gas turbine.
You shouldn’t care about either of those things. Where we make things that last for decades once built is vastly less important to NatSec the fuel you have to use (or not) to generate every single kWh. To conflate opex & capex is just to shill for fossil fuel.
@SeanCasten pretty much, the US hasn’t manufactured **any** large scale equipment in decades…
@SeanCasten I don't mean to say that gas prices don't affect me at all, they probably do, or will, indirectly - my food isn't getting to the grocery story by electric train, sadly - but I definitely don't need to go buy gas to get around town, or to stay warm, so yeah, this feels especially true to me.
@SeanCasten As in everything, Congress is exempt from this as it runs on pure bullshit, a completely renewable self-generating resource.
(Unless you live in the UK, where regulators have cunningly found a way to lock the price end-users pay for domestically-generated renewable electricty to the world-market gas price.)