NYS Mandates Utilities Drill Thousands of Geothermal Wells in State

Only in the mind of twisted leftists does this make sense. New York State is energy-hungry. Yet our state "leaders" demand we begin to phase out the one source of energy that provides something like 90% of all energy in the state: Natural gas and oil. You have to replace all that energy somehow. The answer for home heating, in the minds of leftists, is to drill geothermal wells. The state is *requiring* the state's seven largest utilities to launch at least one geothermal project (and up to five such projects) to get the ball rolling. So here's what happens. Instead of a gas driller drilling one well that produces enough energy for thousands of surrounding households, geothermal drillers must drill hundreds of wells (400 in our example below!) to produce enough energy for a few dozen households, plus some businesses. Same darned hole in the ground, yet if it's for natural gas or oil drilled in the countryside where nobody sees it, it's Satanic. But, drilling several hundred of the same holes in the ground for geothermal --- in densely populated urban neighborhoods --- is angelic. How do you figure, New York State?

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