tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018230518319999846.post2014274333110586829..comments2024-03-27T10:57:28.203-04:00Comments on The Strategic Sourceror: Mass. ranked as most energy-efficient state by ACEEEStrategic Sourcerorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028298940153171661noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018230518319999846.post-22571045352692110502013-11-09T09:26:59.170-05:002013-11-09T09:26:59.170-05:00Wyoming ranks as the least or next to least. Howe...Wyoming ranks as the least or next to least. However, energy easily crosses state boundaries - certainly electricity, but also oil and natural gas. Massachusetts has very few primary industries any more. Steel mills. Glass works. At one time, Massachusetts did have textiles - and that was why early mills were located on the fall line - the need for energy.<br /><br />Just as a developed nation can offshore its environmental issues by moving tomato crops and their pesticide/herbicide issues to Mexico, so too so "developed" states offshore their energy footprint to energy production states. To produce energy takes energy - thus, states like Wyoming, Texas, and Alaska are high per capita users. As North Dakota's energy production has risen dramatically - a production that is largely consumed in other states - so to has it's per capita use. Part of that is due to the energy needed for production, but another is due to the ready availability of cheap energy sources - such as flared gas.<br /><br />There is, unfortunately, a Potemkin Village aspect to much of the ongoing debate with an additional icing of moral superiority. It's far more complex and intertwined than one sees at first glance.Jamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08396171074361529903noreply@blogger.com