Would it be feasible to heat with propane?
(Say you were forced to use that or electricity, because natural gas was not an option,
because I think thats coming. Everything public is being privatized because it stands in the way of our essential corporations. It occupies space depriving them of the profits they are now entitled to.
What about oil heat? It and coal are what many used before we paid to have our heating system converted toi modern, efficient natural gas..when Americans could still afford the fuel of the rich countries.. It may be forbidden alog with wood heat, as it causes asthma. That much is true, it does. Diesel fumes also lower children's IQs.
I am wondering if people like me could somehow switch my heating back to the oil that it used when it was built more than five decades ago, if gas becomes too dear or unavailable.. because electricity is just too expensive to heat with.
It really sucks being cold all the time. I know the US sees itself as the new Saudi Arabia and is hoping to come to Europe's rescue and drive Russia out of business, and many hope to switch to wood or coal, but its just fact that we dont have the natural gas reserves to become a big exporter. They have been lying for decades, overestimating the size of natural gas reserves, to the point where dozens of investment scams are suspected, based on dishonest overestimates of LNG in the ground. Especially for the East Coast fracking industry which is finding that the natural gas wells are running dry. Fracking was plagued with hype from the beginning. For more on this do a search on "Shale Bubble" for the raw facts. And hold on top your money. And heating fuel. So much is fake now you wont believe it unless you read it yourself. Lots of politicians are involved in this natural gas scam. Read more here:
https://shalebubble.org/ Yes, the Marcellus Shale is greatly overestimated and more and more hype is being produced to enable a theft from the nation. Tax money now is being spent to enable propagenda. Its subsidy thats being paid to liars out of our taxes to lie to us in the media. Shame on them.
Russia is much larger than the US is and frankly has more natural gas. Thats just a fact. Its not political. Social Security deprives banks of business, and inhibits migration for work, a huge moneymaker.
Russia should be compensating countries for the damage they are doing, but because of the WTO we basically now cannot boycott countries legally if they are in the WTO. Can we boycvott China for paying workers almost nothing? Of course not. US coprporations would have a shit fit. We created the WTO to prevent boycotts like the ones that successfully changed South Africa. They are against our state religion.
Money.
Its simple common sense, isnt it? That We should not export away the only heat many Americans can afford. The residents of our cities cannot afford to move en masse, either. But its a lot like famines. Famines are a symptom, when they occur of how much lives are valued by society. As jobs are being shifted elsewhere, the resources are too. And so will scarce resources like housing. After all essential workers, wherever they are, have to make enough to live on, to eat. and non workers become a lower priority. A much lower priority as they no longer are essential, not being employed. The resourses, like housing and retirement funds, will go to the essential workers. Whatever promises which were made that prevented this will be broken. As the need for them has vanished. from the owners perspectives. This is almost unspeakably wrong, I know. But as somebody who has been through it myself, I see it coming.
I see it coming. As Their affordable rents are tied to natural gas being available that is being sold off. So those cheap postwar apatments will be torn down. Soon. Millions of apartments and no other anything will be available due to the need to use electric heat, only. When they move out their entitlement to get a lower rate of rent loses its legal basis. When they , thanks to their perfect credit and cosigners, move into their new $4500 a month apartment. This will mean huge rent increases - The old postwar apartments started out of public housing, which has now been made illegal by GATS. Worldwide. The postwar buildings, still the kind of apartments that more New Yorkers live in than any others depend on huge common building heaters that mostly now depend on natural gas. In theory they could be converted back to poil but that would involve a large enough investment to be unlikely for landlords who in fact are oftgen looking to get out of the landlord business. The apartments now are renting for stabilized rents, a subsidy that few see as such. No they dont realize they are being subsidized. They dont see the thousands of dollars a month they are getting. But when it vanishes they will realize, its huge.
Right now they may pay 2000 a month in rent or less. They are getting a big subsidy for housing and heat.
substantially less than market rate, a subsidy that is worth thousands of dollars a year to the typical urban family, ends. It wont be available in whatever new apartments they rent as that is new construction and it is always free of rent controls to make it more profitable to build.. The average rent in many US cities hovers around $3000/month for a two bedroom apartment. Thats too much for many families without a hefty wage increase. And if they move there wont be jobs that pay as much wherever they move to. They will have to accept wage cuts because their new homes will be in parts of the country that have available housing at rents they can afford. They will also need to learn how to drive (often late in life) buy cars and parking for them (often $300/month or more) and auto insurance. There wont be widely available public transit in cheaper cities, in fact many of them lack public transit. Public Transit is for the richer cities. Poorer cities have much less of it. The US isnt like Europe, well provided with trollies and trains and subways. They were largely bought up, the tracks torn up and converted to deisel busses and roads for private automobiles, leaviing the US with a permanent underclass. The people whop could never afford cars. Who were stuck paying much more of their incomes for groceries sold at double the prices. Wehn public transit was available, companies l;ike GM's Natiopnal City Lines provided it, if passengers like a certain MS. Rosa Parks, exhausted after a long day at work, would be willing to give up their seats when they were demanded. So riding the bus at a tiome when people wanted to relax might subject them to a very large dose of delibertate humilation.
Well, whats best for General Motors, is best for America, they used to say. They should buy cars. In fact, they were not given any choice in the matter. Nor will they be given choices now. They say history repeats itself and that is so very true. Thanks to our media being subsidized by our taxmoney./. To hide whats really happening, a vast displacement of our people. One thats been planned for decades.
Modern heat pumps work really well, even in cold climates. I'm highly skeptical of it being advantageous to use them though in areas where most of the electricity comes from coal. I have a heat pump but I still prefer to use my gas furnace most of the time for heating, the air it puts out is warmer and it's quieter, cost is pretty much a wash at current prices. Love gas for cooking though, I'd never have an electric stove again, even if I had to put in a propane tank.
Is propane bought like that more affordable than heating and cooking with electricity? Every time I have used more electricity the rapid increase in bill makes me stop. And I live in a fairly mild climate state, New Jersey. Winter is short here and the temperatures rarely dip down into the 0's, 10s and 20s like they do in many other states.
Lacking the money to be able to afford that weather due to LNG being exported, and having low incomes thatnonetheless disqualify them from aid.. Low incomes we should know are often framed by legislators as high incomes so make the working poor ineligible for any substantial help. Also now susidies for health care and subsidies for various corona related services which are incredibly expensive unsubsidized, are ending.
I see many older Americans trying to tough it out and failing to manage. Which might mean suffering greatly, having pipes burst or freezing to death in extreme cold or heat.
Of course this is why natural gas and rents were subsidized for so long. But its ending now. The news is avoiding discussing it. But I see huge related problems due to lack of affordability of heat in the winter and AC in the summer. To see this one only has to look at the difficulties of the many people living in vans throughout the country. They have to buy propane in small quantities. Many of these vans lack ventilation, too so are really not very safe to heat with propane.
California, with its astronomical rents may be the best part of the country to live if we continue to export more and more LNG. as far as climate for that reason. I could easily see the cold states as requiring additional expenditures of $300 to $450 permonth to prevent pipes from freezing in winter and similar in summer for AC.
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