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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 9 May 2001 01:12:25 GMT
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in article GD1J6y.EFL@lugnet.com, Scott Costello wrote:
> 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.
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)
*sigh*
~Grand Admiral Muffin Head
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Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Why don't you do what the Soviets did in Murmansk? To run the power grid, they hooked up the nuclear submarines to the grid to keep the power stable and affordable. best Lindsay (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Its all corporate graft. Here in Houston (home of Enron, which has been fighting a court order to sell power to California), our energy costs are expected to triple this summer. Why? Even in August, Texas' month of peak demand, our energy (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Wow, only double? You are lucky its only double, before all this my higest bill was $55 for one month, now the cheapest one I have gotten recently was over $150!! ARG! And of course they want to sell to us, they are getting rich doing so. Mark (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Rolling Blackouts
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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