My political outburst after weeks of silents

[Bumox]

Why is that the Liberals in this country will not allow the construction of new power plants because in may damage the environment but at the say time they are demanding that the government fix the energy crisis.... What the fuck????? Where do they think that electricity they use everyday comes from????? For those of you who haven't been keeping up with latest events they are protecting that the energy problem will spread beyond Cali...... This is really messed up folks.

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[3MTA3]

Problem:

You cant make all the people happy...some fucker will always bitch...

Solution:

Piss off as few as possible for as short a time as possible...a la Machiavelli...

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[VenoM]

<FONT COLOR="Red">AND DON'T PISS OF KIDS WITH GUNS!</FONT c>

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[Mudflap]

<FONT COLOR="Orange">The current energy crisis in California is a direct result of leftist Al Gore type politics over the past several years.

The meat of the problem is the lobbying against fossil fuel energy alternatives. We have the technology to produce clean, cheap, massive quantities of energy, but it's not being implemented because it threatens the oil tycoons. Bah. Capitalism does have it's down-sides.</FONT c>

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<FONT COLOR="orange">Even the losers...
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[Bumox]

I think things are going to get worst before they get better. http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/frown.gif

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[Koliedrus]

More wisdom from George:

"Not in my back yard."

The original applied to prisons and housing for the homeless but...

Screw it. I live near Oak Ridge. This is all academic.

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[abs0lutionCFH]

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by RogueWarrior:
Unless, of course, I assume control NOW. I can unfuck anything, that's a fact. http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/tongue.gif

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RW for DICK-TATER. :-P

[Dog Breath]

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by Bumox:
I think things are going to get worst before they get better. http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/frown.gif

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Of course it will. We have plenty of generating capacity. Less power plants are operating this year than last. More were operating the year before. California has been in the strangle hold of environmental laws that have caused many plants to produce small profit margins therefore shutting them down.

It is just a matter of restarting the plants. Why don't the utilities just fire them up? Because by allowing the rolling blackouts and huge rate increases they will have leverage to roll back some of the environmental controls that closed their plants in the first place. SCE will not build new plants when it has dozens that aren't running because of environmental standards that are much higher than any other state. Why not try to twist a few arms by reducing your capacity and hitting them where it hurts.

Another tactic SCE is using is withholding payments for electrical generation causing many plants to shut down due to the inability to buy fuel. thereby reducing the supply even more.

There is no energy crisis. The crisis has been manufactured as a defense against more environmental legislation and relaxing the current standards to reasonable levels. I also suspect SCE wants to build a few nuclear plants. This is the only way they will get state approval.

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[MAC]

Yes.
Yes.
I see your points.
Uh. Let me ask something.

A neighbor hood that sprang up say20 years ago and had say 5,000 homes didn't both the power grid in the 80's. But now that neighbor hood stretches for 5 miles in each direction and has 35,000 homes. HHHmmmm
More people in the same area.
More demand.
(The fact that we each have more THINGS that use electric now is negated by the fact that most things now use LESS electric)
We DO need more supply to meet the demand.
And that supply has been quelched by environmental desires.
But the demand has peaked in tiny areas of land. Now If I had been, say, govenor of California 10 years ago and had told a bunch of developers that building around Los Angeles would cause problems due to increased demand for water and electric they'd say "SO! Use the electric from outside of LA"
They did. And they used it all up.
Tell the People.
Do without some of the income.
Live a lot less metropolatin and expand out into the land that still is land.
Where the rain soaks into the ground.

They don't want it.
Their sheep.
They want the farmer to feed them and their willing to be sheared.


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