Letter to the Editor (Oct. 21)

Natural gas isn’t the problem; it’s the politicians

Editor:

Oh, Oh, does this mean that wind and solar are not going to carry the load? How could this be?

We’ve been told all along, for several decades, how wonderful and reliable renewables are going to be. But it’s reported by the Rio Grande Foundation and Gov. Newsom, of California, that California is going to build five, yes five, new natural gas plants to try to avoid blackouts and “boost” the grid.

“Californians are fed up with having to worry about blackouts.  This state has done everything in its power to outlaw natural gas.  This is an outright admission that they cannot keep the lights on without it,” said California Assemblyman Jim Patterson, who is vice-chairman of the Commission on Utilities and Energy.

On July 29, 2021, The Santa Fe New Mexican reported “PNM warns of potential brownouts in summer of 2022, due to San Juan shutdown, solar projects not being finished.”

Yet New Mexico Gov. Lujan-Grisham is doing everything she can to outlaw any fossil fuel with her Energy Transition Act, including the all-important natural gas.

Her desire to have New Mexico be just like California is bad for New Mexico. Will she learn anything from California’s terrible mistakes?

Not likely. Lujan-Grisham has got her New Mexico Environmental Department working hard to undermine the natural gas industry and destroy it through radical methane rules. She’s fully on-board with the Green New Deal, no matter what the consequences to New Mexico citizens.

So I wonder what Democrat Sen. Martin Heinrich thinks of his comrades in California going in the opposite direction of renewables. I bet he thought they were all on the same Green New Deal page.

As reported by the Rio Grande Foundation, “Heinrich coming for your gas heater, stove,” July 20, 2021. “He’s pushing legislation in Congress and for funding in the infrastructure bill for electrification — which is really another way of saying phasing out or banning your natural gas stove, oven and furnace, and requiring you to use electric heat and stoves.”

He clearly doesn’t understand that natural gas is one of the cleanest and most reliable sources of energy (nuclear is the other one).  Of course, everything Heinrich does is political and to hell with the New Mexico citizens he’s supposed to be protecting.

So I guess even radical environmentalist politicians can stab each other in the back, not to mention the citizens of this country.

 

Donna Crawford

Los Lunas