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🚨Blue state regulators have spent years pushing natural gas out of American homes. With Democrats taking over Congress, that fight may be headed to Washington.
In my new piece at @Forbes, I look at what happens when families take the government's word that switching from gas heat to electric heat pumps will save them money.
- In Stoughton, Massachusetts, Laura and Joe Stephens replaced their aging gas furnace with a state-approved heat pump. Their electric bills for the entire previous winter came to less than $800. Their bill for December alone came to $853. "I thoroughly regret it," she told WCVB.
- Massachusetts pays rebates of up to $8,500 for a heat pump on an average $22,000 install. Part of that money comes from rising gas delivery charges, so gas customers are paying for the campaign to push them off gas. Only a government could dream that up.
- When the savings never showed up, regulators ordered special winter discount rates for heat pump customers. If the technology delivered what was promised, nobody would need the discount.
- Colorado is running its own version through its Clean Heat Standard. A GTI Energy analysis found that converting Colorado gas homes to all-electric would raise consumer energy costs 112%, more than $1.7 billion a year statewide.
New York's all-electric building mandate follows the same pattern, even after Gov. Hochul's own moderate Democrats begged her to slow it down.
Heat pumps are fine as a consumer choice. Forcing them on families, and making their neighbors subsidize the more expensive option, is not.
President Trump's oil, natural gas, and nuclear agenda now runs into a Democrat Congress, and some of those members will want to take these mandates national. The blue states have already shown us how that movie ends and it has nothing to do with being affordable.
That is all.
Link in the next post.
This should be required reading in every Texas household:
TEXAS 2.0: Isn't it weird that so many of the 'Republicans' who oppose closed primaries turn out to be Democrats? How many Republicans from the Texas state legislature are working on Gov. Gina's team now?
Stephen Tausend, Cornyn’s current legislative director, has worked for him for a decade. He and another member of Cornyn’s staff are interviewing for positions with Talarico’s incoming Senate office. Jacob Smith, Tausend’s number two, spent five years as Cornyn’s deputy legislative director and policy adviser and joined Talarico’s campaign as deputy policy director.
breitbart.com/politics/2026/…
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This is only funny because you think it might actually be real.
Latest Tucker Guest Bigfoot Reveals How Mind-Controlling Chemtrails Are Sprayed Over The Flat Earth By The Jews buff.ly/16syckx
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Xi Jinping's face upon reading this @politico article:
Hawley backs nationwide data center moratorium politi.co/3WDVxcn
Facts? Since when do facts matter in our society? I must have missed that memo.
😂 Well, this is awkward for the anti-data-center crowd.
We've been told that data centers are creating massive urban heat islands, raising local temperatures, and threatening communities. Another reason, apparently, to stop building them.
However...
A new peer-reviewed study in Environmental Research Letters examined 13 years of satellite data from data centers in Japan.
The results?
🌡️ Daytime surface temperatures actually DECREASED by 1.8–2.2°C over the studied facility footprint.
At night? No statistically significant warming directly over the facilities, with cluster-scale warming constrained to less than 0.3°C.
And here's the funniest part: The previously claimed 2°C regional warming would require 6–43 TIMES more waste heat than the facilities could physically produce.
To be clear, the daytime cooling reflects roof properties, not servers magically refrigerating the neighborhood.
So we went from "data centers are cooking our cities" to observations showing cooler daytime surfaces and little evidence of widespread nighttime warming.
Maybe we should measure things BEFORE declaring another environmental emergency and demanding we stop building critical infrastructure. 😂
📖 doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae…
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This story about a potential $5 billion economic development project being blocked by a functional midwit backed by Chinese money is the perfect metaphor for America's utterly insane society today. Incredible.
If you like NAPA wines like we do, now is a wonderful time to pick up some fine ones at bargain basement prices after the entire valley priced itself out of a declining buyer base.
CO2-induced wine apocalypse update from Napa Valley:
"vineyards drown in unsold bottles...far too much wine and not enough people buying it"
dailymail.com/yourmoney/arti…
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Holy crap, this guy.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang allegedly caught on camera being affectionate with Nvidia’s vice president of health care, according to The New York Times.
The report comes after he was accused of having a relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.
Huang is now also accused of having an extramarital relationship with Nvidia’s vice president of health care, Kimberly Powell, who is also married, according to The Times.
The outlet reports that Huang and Powell were caught on camera being "affectionate" during a conference at a hotel in San Jose, California.
Powell was promoted to senior director of AI business development in 2016 before being appointed vice president of health care in 2017. She reportedly reports to Huang.
During the conference, a bystander allegedly caught Huang and Powell on camera. Huang's security sequestered the individual before making an offer to sign a nondisclosure agreement, according to the NYT.
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Such a surprise to those of us who have been warning about this very social dynamic for the last 10 months. Imagine our shock.
*sigh*
🚨 NOW: It's just been exposed that the effort to block a data center on an ABANDONED mall lot in Maryland is LINKED TO CHINESE COMMUNISTS
Imagine that.
"The Party for Socialism and Liberation took notice...that group is reportedly linked to controversial Chinese businessman Neville Roy Singham."
The CHINESE are happy with this move.
Their goal is to take every possible opportunity we get to expand our SI lead and give China an advantage.
We can't let them!
Doesn't this corrupt little ghoul ever roll out of this job?
We've entered a new age of climate extremes:
A supersized El Niño is colliding with a planet already superheated by climate change.
The latest @WMO report shows once again that leaders must get serious by cutting emissions faster, accelerating a just transition from fossil fuels & delivering the finance & protection vulnerable countries need.
wmo.int/news/media-centre/st…
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So hard to believe @CNN would air a false report based on specious "science," isn't it? Perish the thought!
Remember when CNN reported data centers were causing enormous "heat island" effects based upon a (bogus) non-peer reviewed research paper on March 30?
Well, now published research shows the exact opposite: the reflective roofs of the data centers actually dramatically cool the daytime temperatures around the buildings compared to otherwise.
eurekalert.org/news-releases…
Study: iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
CNN sloppy work:
cnn.com/2026/03/30/climate/d…
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⚡️David Blackmon⚡️ retweeted
Incredible letter.
The White House Counsel Will Scharf calls out Democrats for their crazy threats – and specifically the incoming Oversight Committee chairman for attributing his lawfare crusade to “pettiness because he is gay.”
Garcia clearly did not think that through.
🚨JUST IN🚨
The White House has sent a warning letter to incoming House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Robert Garcia warning that some of the new Democratic majority’s investigations could cross into criminal behavior.
The letter, penned by WH counsel Will Scharf, seems to be taking an aggressive stance which likely means the White House intends on getting aggressive for Democratic oversight when they take the majority.
The letter asserts that the Democratic probes will be aimed at harassing the WH rather than serve any valid legislative end.
"We are monitoring the abusive and capricious threats that are now proliferating from Democrat legislators who seek to abuse the legislative process to intimidate and to interfere with the lawful functioning of government. Recent public statements underscore these concerns. You and your congressional colleagues have asserted that they will issue subpoenas to harass, threaten, and deter dedicated members of the Administration from further service."
SOURCE: Punchbowl News
Link to full story at Forbes: forbes.com/sites/davidblackm…
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⚡️David Blackmon⚡️ retweeted
For too long, Texas has prioritized costly, unreliable, weather-dependent power over natural gas, coal, and nuclear.
As I explained to @foxandfriends, this misallocation of resources has left ratepayers on the hook for billions. It's time our grid rewarded reliable generation.
Given his record, this is not a problem Eli Drinkwitz really has to worry about, is it?
Eli Drinkwitz made a very interesting point about the future of college football. 🤔
With conference championship games being eliminated under the new playoff format, the Missouri head coach is questioning the purpose of conferences moving forward.
If you think about it, this could be the first step toward conferences being eliminated altogether in the future.
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In other words, your mug was on one side of the fence, and your womp was on the other. But I'm sure you said something folksy while you wuz doin' it, right?
Right.
Classic John Kennedy.
