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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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Wed, 9 May 2001 09:15:37 GMT
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Scott Costello wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> And here I thought I did not live in a third world nation.
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> Scott
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 dear governors again started to talk
about insufficient energy plants and reinitiating planned blackouts. The
experts say that it is just a false propaganda to encourage nuclear
energy plants, in which the same governors would have huge amounts of
*profit*, I'm sure.
Selçuk, The 3rd Worlder..:-)
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| (...) That's precisely my point, except as regards the U.S. government. Believe it or not, Americans are naive enough to think themselves immune to the kind of corruption and nonsense that takes place elsewhere, frankly, ALL OVER THE WORLD! I think (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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