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The Christian Science Monitor reports on legislation proposed by Republican law-makers in Wyoming:
The bill would require utilities to use "eligible resources" to meet 95 percent of Wyoming's electricity needs in 2018, and all of its electricity needs in 2019.
Those "eligible resources" are defined solely as coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, nuclear, oil, and individual net metering.
The latter would encompass houses (and businesses?) with solar, wind or co-generation equipment. Utility-scale generation, however, could face a $10/MWh penalty.
The article notes that
Wyoming is the nation's largest coal producer [...] nearly 90 percent of the electricity generated in Wyoming came from coal in September 2016, the most recent month with available data.
A PDF of the bill, SF0071, is available on the Wyoming legislature's Web site.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 22 2017, @07:43PM
He got you there. I can't think of anything more capitalist than buying legislation and legislators. Of course, now that the subject of regulatory capture has come up, you're going to say it's all the fault of those damn regulations, being all abusable like that, and we should stop regulating. But guns, of course, don't kill people; people do, and there is no analogy between those statements what-so-freaking-ever. Hmm...
Maybe stop and ask yourself: why do we, humans, engage in economic activity? Once you have the answer, you'll realize why putting the ideological purity of ANY system, ANYWHERE along the spectrum from utter laissez-faire to hard collectivism, is a moral failure, the moral equivalent of a massive priority inversion bug.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 23 2017, @06:52PM
Yet again you project what you think I am over top of mountains of evidence to the contrary. I am not anti-regulation. I simply think promoting competition is a better use of the law than hamstringing any company that does too well out of pure spite.
Like all these megacorp within the same market mergers? Fuuuuuck that noise. That is anti-competition and thus bad.
Phone/cable company Internet service duopolies? Limit rates based on areas where there is actual competition if there is no serious competition in a given area. Charge no tax on the revenue acquired in an area for the first three years of a company entering into that market as competition.
Capitalism does need a guiding hand but that hand belonging to a socialist/communist/progressive is as bad as it belonging to a corrupt official.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 23 2017, @11:02PM
Then get your useless beer-swilling drunk-shooting lazy-fishing ass out there and make some change happen.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 24 2017, @02:10AM
Pass. I think in logic not in feelz. Almost nobody votes on logic; even around these parts where we highly value a good bit of it. It'd be like learning a foreign language that wouldn't even let me watch anime without subs.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 24 2017, @03:09AM
Hah. El gringo piensa que no hablo otros idiomas. Soy desde el Bronx, cabrón; mi español es mejor que mi japonés. How many does your dumb ass speak? Hell, you sound like you barely have a grip on English, like most Americans.
And what a poor excuse not to go and fight for your supposed principles. I was right on the money from day one pegging you as a worthless, solipsistic coward. At least I have the courage to fight for mine, even if the cause seems hopeless. Gods, my balls are bigger than yours and they're ovaries!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 24 2017, @04:25AM
You forget, I don't actually want things to get better. I want them to keep getting worse until we can throw this corrupt POS government out and start fresh. It's why I voted for Obama twice and was not remotely disappointed.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 24 2017, @07:11AM
I love you "burn it to the ground and start it all over!" types. You're either egomaniacs, driven by some delusion that you're some kind of temporarily-embarrassed scion of the rightfully-ruling elite, or else you're on a level with a suicide bomber packing enough explosive to kill over a billion people.
Either way, the self-centered, amoral nihilism is staggering.
If you're too weak and cowardly to fight, if you've got nothing to contribute, *kill yourself.* Lord knows you have enough big metal cock substitutes lying around. Chug a few beers first if your courage comes in liquid form. Me, I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna *keep* fighting until I can't anymore. And then they better bury me under something heavy, and never, ever, ever turn their backs on it...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 24 2017, @11:15AM
I love it when you tell me what I want. Shows how astoundingly clueless you are. I want to fuck off fishing, sling a little bit of code, and continue having a quite happy life. Running shit is like the job absolutely farthest down my list of jobs I'd like to do. I'd enjoy the "watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants and patriots" bits more and getting shot at is never especially fun.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 24 2017, @05:11PM
Well, that's on you. Just remember that old saw about the hottest places in Hell being reserved for those who stayed uninvolved in a time of crisis. It's fine though; you admit you're a useless, cowardly oxygen thief, so at least there's no delusion on that score.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...