Prepare to Freeze in the Dark

In the aftermath of this week’s “bomb cyclone” of wind and rain, it’s a good time to consider what elected leaders in the Northwest have planned for us in the coming years. Here’s the short version: freeze in the dark while the food in your fridge spoils.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the region lost power, and some still don’t have it back today. Currently, electricity heats 50 percent of all homes in the Northwest. Liberal lawmakers and governors are demanding we move to 100 percent.

Just two percent of cars on the road are fully electric, yet the politicians in Salem and Olympia plan to force citizens to buy battery-powered cars and make it 100 percent. At the same time, they’re shutting down electric generating plants. Coal—the cheapest and most reliable energy source? Gone. Nuclear and natural gas generation? Literally illegal in Oregon and nearly impossible in Washington unless you’re a tech giant running servers.

The Northwest Power Planning Agency is already predicting blackouts and brownouts in just a few years. Many folks survived this week’s storm outages thanks to natural gas fireplaces, kitchen stoves, and water heaters. Now imagine enduring a storm without any of those tools if the climate change extremists get their way.