Comments by Concerned Taxpayer | Eastern NC Now

The huge spike in electric prices in Europe happened well before the Ukraine war and in direct response to the EU green deal. Poland's prime minister told his countrymen that the huge rate increases on electricity were due to "the climate policies of the EU". Spain's socialist deputy prima minister warned the EU that the rise in power prices from the Green Deal created a threat of public unrest in her country they were so severe. A few countries made out much better than others, like France which relies mostly on nuclear power and is building lots more. The Russian gas cutoff did not help but it was not the cause. Skyrocketing electric prices had already happened. Norway has come to the rescue of some countries like building a new pipeline to Poland, but again that was in the works before the Ukraine war.

Most of Europe is screwing themselves by not developing shale gas which a number of countries like Germany and the UK have a good supply of but will not develop due to the climate crazies. Norway, however, is going full steam ahead to supply both oil and gas. Hungary is starting to open up its shale reserves, which are estimated to be able to supply their own needs for centuries. Prime Minister Liz Truss briefly opened the UK's shale gas reserves to development, only to have that policy reversed by current prime minister Sunak.

Commented: Wednesday, May 31st, 2023 @ 6:58 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

McCarthy needs to go. He has badly betrayed Republicans and taxpayers with his sell out and cave in to Biden on the debt bill. His hodge podge bill is worse than what the Democrats originally proposed. McCarthy's fools have grown the dficit by $4 Trillion instead of the $1.5 Trillioin the Democrats originally asked for. McCarthy needs to be removed as Speaker.

Commented: Wednesday, May 31st, 2023 @ 8:57 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

I'm calling Greg Murphy's office tomorrow. This is something that Walter Jones would already be leading the charge against. Murphy seems to be on the fence. If he votes for this excrement sandwick, he should not expect votes from my family or I ever again, and he can expect that we will get behind any conservative primary challenger that comes along. We are getting clobbered by inflation, and that idiot McCarthy wants to let the Democrats keep on spending. That is just unacceptable. The piece linked above that says that McCarthy's deal is worse than the $1.5 Trillion "clean" increase is absolutely right. They haven't even cut out those 87,000 IRS auditor thugs.

Commented: Monday, May 29th, 2023 @ 1:19 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

When I heard this on the radio and the reason for it, I was dumbfounded. This is using a sledgehammer to swat a fly. There are a lot worse things said all the time in politics. So now we have an explanation, the political gamesmanship of John Bell trying to damage potentiial opponents for the next Speaker's race. That stinks. This is the same John Bell who was just one of the kingpins in screwing NC taxpayers with the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and last year screwed electric ratepayers with the NC Green New Deal. Bell is not anyone we would ever want as House Speaker. This is just one more example of why NOT.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 9:35 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Beaufort County's taxes are too high due to the RINO / Democrat big spending coalition running our county government. That needs to change. Why can't the Republicans work together as they do in Raleigh and in Washington, DC? A coalition with leftwing Democrats is a huge embarassment when voters elected a 5 to 2 Republican majority.

Commented: Sunday, May 28th, 2023 @ 11:26 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

You are the one without a clue, Bobbie, because all you do is regurgitate the far left narrative in your tunnel vision. You keep deflecting to things that are irrelevant. If you would watch that British TV documentary linked below you would understand the real science involved and how your narrative is nothing but hot air. Learn the relationship between our oceans and the CO2 in our atmosphere and you would grasp why the point you are trying to make is meaningless.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 10:52 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

WE got royally screwed by our own "Republican" leaders in the General Assembly with HB951 and it is going to cost us big time in our pocketbooks, and that has already started with the first double digit electric rate increase caused by HB951, NC's Green New Deal. If other places that have gone down this path are any guide, those will be coming regularly from here on out until we get to Germany's level, where residential electric rates are three times what they have been in North Carolina. Thanks a whole hell of a lot, Tim Moore and Phil Berger.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 2:41 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Percentages are what matter, and if you listen to the prominent scientists interviewed in that British TV documentary, in the scheme of things, the percentage of CO2 from humans is insignifcant. Further, actual historical data refutes the argument that CO2 is a driver of warming or cooling. The overall percentage of CO2 in the atmoosphere starts rising decades AFTER a rise in climate termperature, and starts falling decades AFtER a decrease in climate temperature. Thus changes in levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are a RESULT of warming or cooling, NOT a cause of them. Watch the documentary. You might learn something.

Commented: Thursday, May 25th, 2023 @ 6:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Maybe the enviromental extremists justify in their own minds the slaughter of millions of birds and bats by wind turbines on the basis that it reduces CO2 when those creatures are no longer living to exhale CO2 as part of their breath, but their mass destruciion of trees would seem to go against their stated obsession with eliminates CO2.

Trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere as part of the photosynthesis process and release Oxygen. Clearcutting forests to build wind farms and solar farms means those treeing are no longer removing CO2 from the atmosphere. 13 million trees, ust on public land in Scotland is a lot of CO2 that is no longer being remvoed from the atmosphere. It would be interesting to calculate worldwide how much CO2 the push for "green energy" has left in the atmosphere by their assault on our forests. The clear cutting of forests in the Amaxon for balsa wood to make wind turbine blades also contributes to more CO2.

Then there is another issue with deforestation. That increases runoff from major storms and therefore flooding. The huge floods in Germany a year or so ago came from deforestation for wind turbines, although the eco-zealots tried to blame it on "climate change"

Commented: Monday, May 22nd, 2023 @ 2:06 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Here is some Congressional testimony that debunks the claim that wind and solar are "clean":
stopthesethings.com

CO2 is NOT "pollution" or "dirty" It is a gas naturally present in the atmosphere that is not harmful to animal life and is a necessary nutrient for plants. Without it, all plant life would die.

As to real pollution, gas fired power plants have always been clean, and since the scrubbers were required on coal plants, they have been, too.

The so-called "clean coal" technology even almost eliminates the CO2 for those who have their panties in a twist about that. It uses coal gassification, a techonology that goes back almost 200 years. We had a coal gas plant in Washington, NC before the War Between the States which primarily provided gas for lighting in houses and on the streets. It was located on part of the lot where the new police station has been built. New Bern had one, too.

Commented: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 9:23 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Nuclear is cleaner than wind and solar which generate lots of toxic waste as well as lots of otehr environmental harm. It is also much cheaper. Finland just opened its first big nuclear power plant, and electric rates fell by 70% the next day.

Commented: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 11:25 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Biden is a hypocrite on this issue. As a Senator, he supported forcing the president to negotiate for debt ceiling increases. Why does he think he is entitled to a different path now that he is (at least the figurehead) president?

Commented: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 @ 9:54 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Biden has declared war on our quality of life, and is using the eco-fascist climate cult to attack middle class America.

Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 7:19 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

This is bad in the US, with all sorts of new mandates by order of the EPA, without going through congress, that are making lots of applicances more expensive and less functional, with their climate delusions as the excuse for doing so. Then they are trying to force us into very expensive self-combusting electric cars and trying to sned our electric bills to the moon.

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 2:45 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

So the climate cult getting their predictions WRONG time after time after time but NEVER getting them right to date makes them "smart people" in your book????? Most of us would say they are either dumb people or conmen.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 2:02 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Southerners pay for the upkeep of Arlington National Cemetery, including millions of Confederate descendants, along with everyone else. Monuments for our soldiers deserve to be there with their graves. What will the woke bastards try to do next? Take up the tombstones of southern soldiers? The land itself was stolen from General Lee and his family.

It is bad enough to go after monuments to our veterans at parks and courthouses, but to go after them on battlefields and cemeteries as the woke bastards are now doing is absolutely outrageous. That is the sort of thing that totalitarians do.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 7:21 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

As usual, you are the one speaking with a forked tongue, Big Government Bob when you accuse others of not being truthful. You seem to think the far left narrative is "the truth". It isn't. Here is what Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said, for instance:
www.thegatewaypundit.com
The rules of this site only let me put up one link, but I could add others. YOU are the one posting untruths, something you do all the time, Bob.

Commented: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 9:56 am By: Concerned Taxpayer