New green poorhouse
I got my first summer of 2025 electric bill the other day. It was “shocking;” the highest bill I’ve had in 40 years. In fact, it was nearly double the highest bill I’ve ever had.
The progressive “new green deal” for us oldsters means many have to ration how we use electricity — and air conditioning. That’s dangerous.
Several years ago, our proudly progressive governor, Tom Wolf, entered into the “Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,” forcing electric suppliers to buy into a goofy system of carbon credits. Of course, they passed this cost on to consumers.
The computing and AI revolution is requiring a lot more electricity, and we foolishly did not build the clean nuclear power we now need — instead we built expensive, inefficient windmills or, as I call them, bird grinders.
Then we had the Biden crew give big federal subsidies for buying electric vehicles. Did anyone ask, “What happens when we plug these things in?”
Many Philadelphians will, no doubt, not pay their electric bills (just like with water bills) and to subsidize them — the rest of us will have to pay even more.
I suggest consumers go to PApowerswitch.com (run by the Public Utility Commission) and get a slightly better electric rate.
Let’s hope the Trump administration can employ common sense and roll back some of these energy fantasies, before we’re all sent to the new green poorhouse.
Richard Iaconelli
Rhawnhurst
Never mistake propaganda for truth
A response to Ron Farbman’s 7/30/25 letter:
It begins with “Loyalty to Country, not Government” and adds the admonishment that, “Every American … should understand … .” This was presented as it was with the expectation that agreement with Ron is required for every American. So much for free speech.
Referring to “Netanyahu and the settlers” is a historical flip. Truth is, what was called Transjordan at the time occupied Judea and Samaria until 1967 and used its population as settlers to displace indigenous Jewish people and rename both as the West Bank.
Regarding the allusion linking today’s war to WWII, I’d counter that with Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti in that era was a great friend of Hitler’s and standartenfuhrer Otto Skorzeny mentored Yasser Arafat. Today’s war did not even exist on 10/6/23. Compared to what Hamas did, I find Israel’s response restrained and even against military doctrine. Especially considering how the loudest anti-Israel voices behave during wars.
Unfortunately votes at the UN are bought by the vast ocean of black gold under the sand. The pariahs should be Iran and all its proxies [Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO]. And we don’t need to look far into the past for the problem; about every day of the week there are parades shouting death to America just as loudly as death to Israel.
Joe Jackson
Bustleton
