Another Prime Minister Bites the Dust

[Ben]

No link as it was just breaking news on the teevee, but the UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss just announced her resignation. She's been in, what, like a month since Johnson quit?

They've got a mess over there.

[MillCreek]

A term of six weeks.

[WLJ]

Info on BBCNews.com is a confused mess on the matter but it seems fighting over voting on a fracking bill may have been a big part in pushing her over the edge.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-63309400

MPs allege bullying during chaotic fracking vote
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63322533

[K Frame]

OK, I did NOT expect that. I knew the entire budget mess, in which the chancellor of the exchequer lost his position a couple of weeks ago and which saw the pound in free fall, had damaged her badly but I really thought she was going to be able to survive that.

[MechAg94]

UK Faces Major Blackouts Due To War, Media Prepares Secret Talking Points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yjUh8JETq8&t=5s
Timcast IRL

Are there some potentially bad things coming around this Winter?

[Ben]

Are there some potentially bad things coming around this Winter?

I was telegramming with a cousin in krautland this morning. He told me electricity there is now at 0.80eu/kwh. It was running 0.30eu prior to the craziness. The euro and dollar are neck and neck right now. I can't imagine paying $0.80/kwh for my heat pump.

[WLJ]

I was telegramming with a cousin in krautland this morning. He told me electricity there is now at 0.80eu/kwh. It was running 0.30eu prior to the craziness. The euro and dollar are neck and neck right now. I can't imagine paying $0.80/kwh for my heat pump.

I just checked, we're paying 12 cents per kilowatt hour

[dogmush]

UK Faces Major Blackouts Due To War, Media Prepares Secret Talking Points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yjUh8JETq8&t=5s
Timcast IRL

Are there some potentially bad things coming around this Winter?

Yes there are some potentially bad things coming this winter.  However, Timcast IRL, and specifically Luke, have been getting a little hyperbolic about the global cabal leading us into nuclear war and the whole world being killed.  Apply some salt to their show.

[MechAg94]

Yes there are some potentially bad things coming this winter.  However, Timcast IRL, and specifically Luke, have been getting a little hyperbolic about the global cabal leading us into nuclear war and the whole world being killed.  Apply some salt to their show.

I try to do that always with internet stuff.  They can sometimes get a bit on the sky-is-falling side of things with the stuff they talk about.  I rarely listen to their full show anyway, mostly just some of the clips.

If something coming around the corner is real, you will usually see it come up in multiple places. 

[K Frame]

I just checked, we're paying 12 cents per kilowatt hour

I think that's roughly what I pay for my power in Northern Virginia by the time taxes and fees are factored in...

Yep, that's what Dominion Virginia is saying...

"Based on rates in effect as of November 1, 2020, a typical Dominion Energy residential customer in Virginia using 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month receives a monthly bill of $116.55. Put another way, the typical residential customer in Virginia pays a per-kilowatt-hour rate of about 11.66 cents ."

I know Dominion has winter and summer rate structures. I THINK the winter rate is somewhat lower, but I can't remember for sure. All I know is that I only use about 500 kwhr in the winter now because of the pellet stove. My monthly bill, however, is the same month over month because I'm on what they call the budget billing plan.

[MechAg94]

I have never liked those leveled out bill plans.  I like seeing my bill go up and down through the year, usually with the season. 

[MillCreek]

The Snohomish County PUD tells me I pay 10.47 cents per kilowatt hour.

[230RN]

K-Frame noted:

"I think that's roughly what I pay for my power in Northern Virginia by the time taxes and fees are factored in..."


Well, factored out, I think.  Minor.

Watch it with those constant fees. The less energy you use, the higher your cost per kWh looks.

If your constant fees are $10 and you use no electricity that month, the per kWh cost is infinite ( ∞).

E.g.
$10 bill (fees, constant) ÷ 0 kWh  (energy used that month)  = $∞ per kWh.

You have to subtract all the constant fees from the total bill to get a true cost per kWh.

I noticed in his quote, the company specified 1000 kWh.

[K Frame]

I have never liked those leveled out bill plans.  I like seeing my bill go up and down through the year, usually with the season. 

I see my bill go up and down with the seasons, too, when I read the billing statement. It even includes the total of that month's usage.

But I just pay the same amount every bill.

[HankB]

Over the past year my electric cost has varied between 10.5 and 12.7 cents per KWH all fees & taxes included, including a monthly "storm surcharge" for damage done by a severe (for the South) winter storm that hit Texas in February 2021.

I was telegramming with a cousin in krautland this morning. He told me electricity there is now at 0.80eu/kwh. It was running 0.30eu prior to the craziness. The euro and dollar are neck and neck right now. I can't imagine paying $0.80/kwh for my heat pump.

Joe Biden and the Democrats think that your savings over the European rates should be counted as income and taxed - that's why he's hiring 87,000 new IRS agents and arming a bunch of them.

OK, that's not true - I hope! - but the huge increases in cost your cousin is experiencing is largely a direct result of the German leadership they've elected. (Are those lunatics STILL shutting down nuke plants?)

[WLJ]

Joe Biden and the Democrats think that your savings over the European rates should be counted as income and taxed - that's why he's hiring 87,000 new IRS agents and arming a bunch of them.

OK, that's not true - I hope!

Someone in the admin just leaned back in their chair from their computer after getting an e-mail from someone in the FBI Far Right Extremism Forum Monitoring Dept and thought to themselves, "that's a brilliant idea!" and just shot off a memo to the IRS.

[MillCreek]

Someone in the admin just leaned back in their chair from their computer after getting an e-mail from someone in the FBI Far Right Extremism Forum Monitoring Dept and thought to themselves, "that's a brilliant idea!" and just shot off a memo to the IRS.

LOL

[MechAg94]

What really happened in the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URzLyyogSA0

Paul Joseph Watson is just a bit opinionated.  Here is his take on the PM change over. 

[MillCreek]

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-63327087

Rishi Sunak is the new British PM.

[Lennyjoe]

Is t the new PM part of the digital currency push?