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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 10 May 2001 19:28:41 GMT
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Scott Costello wrote:
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> Here are the predictions for Southern California summer of 2001:
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> 1. Hottest summer in years
> 2. Rolling Blackouts on a daily basis
> 3. $3 a gallon gasoline
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> What it means to us personally:
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> 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....
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Frank Filz
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 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 (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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