1.) The news most likely to unhinge the Green Left is Dominion's admission that to meet growing electricity demand (including that from electric vehicles) will require more than just sunshine and wind: It's going to require natural gas and nuclear power (here and here). Who could have seen that coming? Oh ... right. Senior Fellow Steve Haner reports on the Dominion move here.
2.) He also, less favorably, reports on the move to pay for increased Dominion fuel costs by essentially putting them on a credit card, calling it a bad precedent for the future (here). The third shoe in his reporting drops tomorrow morning. Watch for it.
3.) Steve has warned in the past about plans to eliminate your natural gas appliances (here), with bans that have already passed in Berkley and other California cities. When Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka, Jr. suggested such a ban could take place nation-wide, such worthies as Senator Chuck Schumer mocked it as a "MAGA conspiracy" (here), no doubt providing cover to those opposing efforts to outlaw such a ban in Virginia (here) in a bill defeated on a straight party-line vote. Now, Schumer's home state has put in place a ban on new gas stoves state-wide, making the conspiracy policy (here). First, they came for your cars, and now they're coming for your stoves …
4.) An over-reliance on solar power to provide electric for those new stoves depends on approvals at the local level, and there the opinions are far from unanimous. In the ongoing battle to create huge solar farms in Virginia, here's the April scorecard: Yellow and red cards in Fauquier (here), Franklin County (here), Surry (here), and Montgomery (here). Moving forward in Charlotte County (here), Henry (here), and Albemarle (here)
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