https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/publications-resources\/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers-2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nBoise under Mayor McLean\u2019s leadership has taken a sharp turn to the left and it doesn\u2019t look like it is going to change any time soon as she continues to push her agenda to turning Boise bright blue in hopes of it catching on as it has in my old neighborhood of Meridian. I have said many times in the past that the liberals now have a foot hold in our capital city and to be sure they have a strategy to change every city in the Treasure Valley. Ron Nate president of the Idaho Freedom Foundation pushed for House Bill 11<\/strong>, which would have criminalized illegal entry at the state level, allowing Idaho to finally secure our borders and work with federal authorities. But Big Ag interests watered it down, leaving you and your families vulnerable to the illegal invaders that have poured into our state. If you think it is only happening in the Treasure Valley think again because living 120 miles north in New Meadows we are finding more and more illegals working in construction, landscaping and retail stores.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWAKE UP IDAHO! <\/strong>Only 13% of the registered voters showed up for the May 20th elections for school bonds. If Idahoans don\u2019t show up to vote for conservative legislators in the next election, I fear that we may be past the point of no return. Just look at the powerful tech companies like META, which is now a member of IACI along with Google; they are moving into our state, building these huge data centers on what used to be farmland. They will create a minimal number of jobs but will suck up lots of our resources like water and electric.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBy the way, folks, Idaho Power is already planning for a big rate increase in 2026 as they are requesting a 13.09% hike in its overall rates, according to an application the company filed with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission. The average residential customer using 900 kilowatt hours per month would see their bill rise by about $21.66 or a 17.35% increase. Intermountain Gas also filed a request with the PUC to raise its base rates. Residential customers would see their monthly bills rise by 11.46% while commercial customers would see their monthly bills go up by 5.16%. This would increase Idaho Power’s revenues by just under $200 million. Idaho Power has also proposed hiking the residential service charge by $15 to $20. They say this will make fixed cost collection more equitable for residential customers. Don\u2019t believe a word of this malarky. Let us not forget that over the past two years, each January, Idaho Power customers have received rate increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the way, let me remind you that the 3 largest liberal investment companies own over 25% of Idaho Power’s stock. I only mention it alleged that this group has been instrumental in driving power companies to use more renewable and less coal generated energy. <\/strong>In 2008, 46.1 percent of Idaho Power\u2019s energy came from coal. In 2024, coal generation is down to 9%. Just for your information a Nuclear power plant is 33% efficient while coal comes in with the same efficiency of 33%. However, the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Transformative Power Systems Research Program is working on concepts to develop small, flexible, low-emissions coal plants that could achieve 40% to 45% efficiency. A simple cycle natural gas power plant efficiency rate tends to be lower, ranging from 33 to 43% while Hydro power is 90% efficient. Wind, on the other hand, is 33 to 35% efficient when the wind is blowing and solar is 22% efficient. Why has Idaho Power invested so much in renewable energy like wind and solar if they are so inefficient while raising our rates? <\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWhen will it be too expensive to turn the lights on?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just when it appeared that the furor over Mayor McLean\u2019s flying of the Rainbow flag honoring the GAY COMMUNITY in Boise and the city council\u2019s approving it as the official flag of Boise another shoe drops. It appears that our capital city mayor is once again under fire but this time by the Trump Administration\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[40,631,926],"class_list":["post-18593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bobs-words-of-wisdom","tag-boise","tag-electricity","tag-lauren-mclean","cat-235-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18594,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18593\/revisions\/18594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}