Colorado's dangerous energy experiment
Beneath our noses a titanic economic experiment around energy is taking place in Colorado, one with massive, real-world consequences for every resident of the state...
The price of a barrel of oil has dropped from $80 in January 2025 to $56 a barrel in December – a decrease of about 30%... the cost-per-gallon of regular gasoline in Colorado was $2.39 at the end of December...
You and I will be paying more to keep the house warm and the lights on in the future – but why? Why do we have to pay more when the prices of power-generating resources like gas and coal are stable?
The answer is found in the Governor Polis' Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Roadmap. Since 2019 Democrats have forced utilities to replace a well-functioning infrastructure based on traditional and reliable fuels with a newer and far more expensive one that is – by its very nature – unreliable (i.e., sometimes the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine)...
In the first place, massive numbers of wind turbines and solar panels have to be built for the new grid. A little over 2900 are in operation now, and that number will have to double to meet Democrat-mandated goals by 2040. According to a 2022 report from the Canadian Center of Science and Education, the material requirements for wind and solar power are substantial and far larger than those for gas, nuclear, and coal. It takes 572 tons of material (like concrete, copper, steel, and rare-earth minerals, etc.) to generate 1 Terawatt-hour of electricity using natural gas; to create that same amount of energy using solar power takes 29 times as much material (16,447 tons).
Wind power is also material-intensive, requiring 14,074 tons...
... once constructed these small-scale power plants (the wind turbines and solar panels) have to be connected or integrated into a system to move electricity to consumers...
... according to Xcel Energy documents in Minnesota the cost of disposing of one wind turbine was $532,000 in 2019 – and there are thousands of turbines in Colorado that will need to be replaced sooner or later...
... the average monthly bill is set to rise to over $600 per month by 2040 thanks to the hallowed "green agenda."...
