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Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 8 May 2001 23:42:34 GMT
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For the second time I have now been victim of California's rolling
blackouts. The first experience was a few months ago at home, and now today
5/8/01 here at work. For those of you not experiencing this wonderful
phenomenon, it really sucks! This is just the tip of the iceberg, what is it
going to be like come July or August when power demand is really high due to
high temperatures? Our idiot govenor Gray Davis has done nothing but spend
one billion dollars to buy power, this is the equivelant of puting a
band-aid on a bazooka wound. All the stupid politicians out here can seem to
talk about is price caps. While I am sitting here in the dark, I would be
willing to pay a few bucks more to actually have consistant power. Here at
my work we are a website, so we just shut down for about an hour. Granted
this all seems somewhat trivial in the face of other global issues, but this
problem was preventable if our predicessors had even bothered.
Here are a few key facts:
1. In the USA, California is dead last in energy production per capita 50
out of 50
2. In the USA, California is first in conservation per capita.
Believe me the solution is not conservation, we are doing that. The answer
is also not to blow the entire budget on state run power. I doubt a
realistic motion to impeach govenor Davis would amount to anything by next
year, but I sure hope the next guy does a better job.
And here I thought I did not live in a third world nation.
Scott
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Message has 9 Replies:
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| (...) And I bet you thought you lived in a country where the presidential election couldn't be stolen by a man in bed with the oil and energy companies too! Interestingly the price of natural gas, petroleum, and electricity are all going through the (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) One of the places it's being bought from is Washington State. As a result. my power bill is almost double what it was at this time last year. :^P Meanwhile, the local power companies are asking us to conserve (so they can sell our power to CA) (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Wow!.. Blackouts in US? C'mon guys, it's not that big a problem..:-) We were very get used to it just 10-15 years ago. I mean *regular* and *planned* blackouts, 2 hours everyday..:-) Things were much better during the last ten years but our (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) ... (...) ... (...) So I've been wondering for a couple months why the state doesn't lift the dumb socialist power price caps and allow the market to do its thing. Why don't you folks just let the problem fix itself? And really, what do you (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) True. The problem is that you can't buy power that there's no generating capacity for. The issue is more that California's power infrastructure sucks, as you point out: (...) I had always been under the impression that California had been (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Congratulations. Try being without power for 3 days in the middle of a blizzard in January. :-/ Do they give you any advance notice of specific outages (like: we're dropping power to your house from 6:00pm to 8:00pm)? Steve (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Yup, all the electric clocks in my house were blinking when I got home. At least where I work has been declared a "critical installation" and isn't subject to blackouts - allegedly, since I'm at a slightly offsite facility and we are all wondering (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Here are the predictions for Southern California summer of 2001: 1. Hottest summer in years 2. Rolling Blackouts on a daily basis 3. $3 a gallon gasoline What it means to us personally: Heat will cause us all to get heat stroke. No relief at home (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) There are too many people living in our world today. What we need is another world war to cull the herd, send the poor and innocent off to die in a foreign land while the rich sit back and benefit (and laugh too). I'm waiting for Bush to (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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