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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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Date: 
Wed, 9 May 2001 14:22:48 GMT
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Mr L F Braun at braunli1@pilot.msu.edu wrote:

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mark Sandlin writes:
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)

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

Oh sure, I'll just go right out and hook up my nuclear sub. Oh wait, I don't
own one. Guess I'll just keep bending over for the power company.

~Grand Admiral Muffin Head
--
Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) Are you crazy? The 2nd Amendment guarantees that you can have one! What's wrong with you?! 8^) (...) "Let me control the power supply, and I don't care who makes the laws." Dave! (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) Clearly your second amendment rights are being violated. As long as that sub is "man portable" that is. So start building! ++Lar (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) No, that was the "royal" ("grand admiral?") you, as in the State of Washington. You've got tons of Pacific submarines at Bremerton, right? Hook 'em up! best LFB (though the Navy might take exception, granted...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) 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 (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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