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Maryland’s largest country votes to ban use of natural gas

According to a report in Energy Wire, this past Tuesday, the Montgomery County Council voted 9-0 to ban the use of natural gas as a source of heat in new construction. The decision still needed the signature of the county executive, who has already voiced support for the move. The new law will take effect at the end of 2026.

The alternative? Electricity, of course. Other “non-combustible” forms of energy will be permitted, but electricity will probably be preferred, despite the warnings to the council from critics that it will be expensive. Electricity will be used for heating rooms, water heaters, and cooking. Restaurants, life science labs, manufacturing facilities, and crematories will be exempt. I’m not sure how much electricity one needs to cremate remains, but that is probably something best not explored. Residences with more than four stories, public housing, and schools will enjoy an extension until 2027.

Hans Reimer, who is the chair of the all-Democrat council, called the move a giant step forward and predicted that the rest of the state would follow in the county’s footsteps. He stated, “Montgomery County will now be a national leader in the push for electrification as a solution for climate change.”

How will people with limited budgets afford electricty to their electric homes? And where will this energy come from? “That’s the beauty of it”, Reimer told FWIW, “there won’t be any electricity, so everyone will be freezing in the dark; everyone will be equal. Except, ahem, those who hold critical governmental positions, but that’s understandable, surely.”

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Social credit control of the economy has arrived: New York bans new bitcoin mining, citing “climate change”

KEY POINTS

  • New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law on Tuesday banning certain bitcoin mining operations that run on carbon-based power sources.

  • For the next two years, unless a proof-of-work mining company uses 100% renewable energy, it will not be allowed to expand or renew permits, and new entrants will not be allowed to come online.

For now, there will be no ban on EV users who can’t demonstrate that their fuel comes from renewable sources, but if that becomes convenient for the government, it will come. In fact, anything that the government wants to control in the future, it can, using the faked-up hysteria of global warming as justification.