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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 11 May 2001 14:20:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz writes:
> 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.
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> Perhaps people will start to realize the economic folly of living in the
> desert....
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 Southern California (verdant green lawns, unlimited water use, etc., etc.)
I've never been to L.A. (though I certainly plan to), but my opinion as an
outsider is that that city is an archetype of all that is wrong with our
consumer culture.
james
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| (...) First and foremost, it is incorrect to say that Southern California, or LA is a desert. The beauty of So Cal is that we have variety. Parts of the area are desert, but other parts are mountainous, swampy, rolling hills, and even forested. You (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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