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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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Date: 
Thu, 10 May 2001 19:28:41 GMT
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Scott Costello wrote:

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 because we have
to conserve, heck even if we want to turn on the air conditioner it will
quickly be turned off by rolling blackouts, and finally we cannot drive
anywhere for relief becuse gas is too expensive.

Perhaps people will start to realize the economic folly of living in the
desert....

--
Frank Filz

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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com



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  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) Yer all softies. I was born and bred in de briar patch, and I grew up without air conditioners at school, home, or the car. Give me Joshua Tree and some water (for the water colors, mind you, not to drink - that's for sissies). Death Valley on (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) I'd say that the folly is not so much living in the desert but trying to turn the desert into an oasis capable of supporting millions of people in a manner of living that is more suited to the humid east than to the Mediterranean climate of (...) (24 years ago, 11-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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