By Al Duncan
The California Public Utilities Commission is installing 5.1 million electricity meters and 4.2 million natural gas meters in California homes.
Clarke Canfield, an Associated Press writer, reported on Oct. 14, power companies claim smart meter technology will cut energy use, benefit the environment and allow utilities to pinpoint problems during power outages more quickly. But some critics say not only does the technology pose health risks and raise concerns about privacy and security, the ratepayers are funding the $2.2 billion program. Smart meters have been linked to reports of dizziness, nausea, migraines, muscle spasms and insomnia.
Orlean Koehle, president of Santa Rosa”s Eagle Form, said, “A smart meter can be remotely controlled and read. The smart meter not only keeps track of how much electricity you”re using, it controls, regulates and rations your use of that electricity. If PG&E decides you”re using too much heat or air conditioning or hot water, power usage will be automatically limited.”
Coming, Koehle warns, are “smart appliances” with radio frequency chips that are read by the smart readers. The purpose is to micro-manage each American”s power usage.
On Nov. 14, Jerome Corsi reports, “Government regulators could demand more household energy efficiency or a reduction in carbon emissions, resulting in ?energy offenders” being charged substantial fines, and possibly deemed ?energy criminals” subject to severe consequences.”
As documented in previous articles, 31,000 scientist and climatologist, of whom 10,000 hold PhDs, have signed petitions emphatically asserting that global warming is a fraud.
On Nov. 20, Paul Taylor of the L.A. Examiner wrote, Climategate is when computer hackers published thousands of U.N. IPCC climate scientist e-mails suggesting that world-renowned climate scientists manipulated data and exaggerated findings to support the basic theory that manmade greenhouse gases are the cause of global warming.
Al Gore has abandoned his Chicago climate exchange venture that was expected to profit billions of dollars from trading fanciful carbon credits. Similar global carbon trading markets have been shaken by the climategate scandal.
And yet, on Nov 7, Corsi wrote, “Obama intends to pursue the ideological cause of reducing carbon emissions despite growing doubt in the international scientific community about the validity of anthropogenic climate warming theories.
“Obama suggested a back door route through the EPA may be a way to accomplish the goal without requiring new legislation. The EPA is under a court order that says greenhouse gases are a pollutant that fall under their jurisdiction.”
California lost thousands of businesses, tens of thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in revenue because of the CO2 emissions data that attributed to the passage of AB32/SB375. Imagine millions of small businesses, tens of millions of jobs, and billions of dollars in revenue being lost if the EPA is allowed to enforce its regulations on small businesses. Removing the global warming fraud removes the need for energy conservation and eliminates the excessive costs so that small businesses can operate, which means jobs and revenue. Global warming isn”t about conserving energy, it”s about rationing energy.
According to Bob Unruh, Nov. 20, the next crisis could be lack of coal to run the power plants that provide Americans with energy. A report from Stansberry & Associates claims that hundreds of millions of people in nations like China, India and Indonesia are facing a shortage of power. The report noted China today consumes three times the coal of the U.S., but has only half of the U.S. coal reserves. The demand is escalating the cost of coal.
On Oct. 17, Corsi informs us “China”s foreign-exchange reserves have increased to a record $2.648 trillion at a time when the nation is grabbing up energy rights even in the continental U.S.
“China reportedly paid $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake Energy assets, with CNOCC laying a claim to a share of the energy resources in South Texas that can potentially produce up to 500,000 barrels of oil per day.
“That China is buying U.S. oil and natural gas rights in the continental U.S. will strike millions of Americans as paradoxical, especially since the U.S. continues to be a net importer of approximately 60 percent of the oil consumed in the U.S.”
It is my opinion that America possesses enough crude oil on the North Slope of Alaska to last the U.S. for the next 400 years.
A nation that produces nothing is a third-world nation. A nation that imports natural resources it possesses in abundance, yet prevents its use, is a self-destructing nation. And a nation selling itself to the highest bidder is doomed.
Al Duncan is a author, businessman and Record-Bee columnist. He can be contacted at alduncan@pacific.net.
