Virginia Energy Update - "Natural Gas is no longer a bridge fuel"

A conversation with Virginia Department of Energy Deputy Director yielded some excellent information on energy in the video above.

It’s timely considering the excellent piece below by Dwayne Yancey of the Cardinal News.

Bottom line on Energy: We need more. More generation and more transmission. It’s time to get real and use math. The old math ain’t mathing.

Reminder: When Demand is ahead of Supply, what happens to Price?

(Didn’t think I could mash up Ferris Bueller AND Ghostbusters? Please…)

Cardinal News: Britain and Spain show Virginia why energy debates are more complicated than some in politics want them to be The Spanish blackout apparently wasn’t caused by solar power, but not even a left-of-center government in Britain can figure out how to avoid using natural gas. Here’s what those situations mean for Virginia

Even Britain’s left-of-center government says it needs natural gas to back up renewables

That article landed this week along with Jonah Goldberg at The Dispatch which linked to a 2024 piece from The Times of London beneath that.

The Dispatch: A Cold, Hard Truth Could climate change save lives?

“I was shocked recently to learn that more Europeans die of heat death—largely due to lack of air-conditioning—than Americans die from gunshot wounds.”

What kills more in Europe than heat? The cold.

The Times: Cold kills eight times more than heat in Europe, study finds There has been criticism of global bodies for putting too much emphasis on heat deaths despite cold proving far more lethal

Top Song this week in 1975?

Oh yeah…DO THE HUSTLE!

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