CoPIRG—the Colorado Public Interest Research Group—just had a meltdown worthy of a Netflix drama. After years of screeching about shutting down coal plants (climate crisis! emergency! everyone panic!), they’re now throwing shade at Xcel for replacing Pueblo’s Comanche coal plant with too much renewable and natural gas energy. That’s right: they asked for the shutdown—now they’re mad there’s a plan to keep the lights on.
The Bullet Point Brief
- CoPIRG wanted the coal plant gone—because fire and brimstone or something.
- So Xcel said, “Cool, kill coal, we’ll build renewables and natural gas.”
- Now CoPIRG says their replacement plan is too big and too fast.
- Same group pushing to electrify homes and cars now says… maybe we shouldn’t have so much electricity?
- Climate crusader logic: Demand energy reform → get reform → freak out when reality arrives.
My Bottom Line
This is what happens when activist groups are more addicted to hysteria than results. CoPIRG has spent years talking about shutting down coal. When Xcel finally listened—with a plan that blends renewables AND natural gas just to make sure your fridge still works—they pulled a U-turn faster than you can spell ‘hypocrisy.’
Let me break this down for the seatbelt-wearing virtue signalers out there licking their solar panels: If you’re going to electrify everything—from your stove to your SUV—you damn well better plan for skyrocketing demand. That’s how logic works. Can’t scream ‘kill the grid’ AND ‘plug in everything’ without expecting someone with half a brain (lookin’ at you, average Coloradan) to put two-and-two together and call BS.
We need balanced energy policy rooted in reality—not wishful thinking powered by unicorn farts. Coal’s dying? Fine—then quit tripping over yourselves when utilities try to prep for our new electric overlords. How about we stop letting ideologues steer the ship into every iceberg they helped carve?
