[socal_parrot]

I just got this alert on my cell phone. First one of the year. This has got to my Gray nervous.

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[NorseWood]

Grayout Davis is really sweating now!

[Earl B.]

No worries here. Governor Davis was on T.V. last summer with a shovel in his hand beginning work on the many new power plants that were going to be on line by this summer, so we won't have ANY power shortages. Wasn't he?

[Poohbah]

And so it begins.

Maybe every conservative in the blue enclaves should deliberately burn as much power as possible, just to trip rolling blackouts.

[goldstategop]

I thought GrayDown had boasted he solved the power crisis? Looks like on top of the budget mess, along comes this ISO Stage One Alert to remind people everything they dislike about the Governor. Good grief, its like he needed Mother Nature to bring along a heat wave this year instead of last year when we didn't have one.

[Redcloak]

It's nice to see that Drudge has this up. I'd hate to think of Gray-out Davis missing any well deserved attention.

[Dog Gone]

Get used to this, is my advice. With Gray trying to get out of every contract he signed (and based on which power companies were willing to build new plants), California isn't building enough new plants to keep up with population increases.

It's funny how actions have consequences.

[Benrand]

Well, they can't blame it on greedy Enron anymore.

I gave Enron the benefit of the doubt last year, in retrospect, Enron could have been gouging at a certain point, but it's unclear they were continually holding back supply.

Gray is going to get hosed...

[ElkGroveDan]

Well it looks like Grayout is out of the woods today. It appears they kicked off some interruptable equipment at 3:30. However...........

The forecasted demand for tomorrow is for 42,500 megawatts. Based upon TODAY's supply that would put us in a Stage III. My guess is that they'll be buying up some pricey megawatts while we are all still in our pajamas tonight and tomorrow morning.

We have at least two more days of this up north here and I see that down in the Inland Empire it's no better. If we have any major generators go down later in the week we could be looking at some nail biter afternoons for Governor Dufus. They better take away all the breakables within reach of Mr. Nutcase.

[ElkGroveDan]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 9, 2002

DAVIS POWER CRISIS EXTENDS TO THIRD SUMMER California Experiences Second Stage One Alert of Year

FRESNO - For the second time this year, California has experienced a Stage one power alert, once again exposing Governor Gray Davis' failure to get a handle on the energy crisis that has plagued the second half of his administration.

"The fact that the state is once again at the point where it has to consider curtailing the availability of power to various users is deplorable," declared gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon.

"Gray Davis has hosted numerous public events where he has taken credit for boosting California's available energy supply. Almost all of the energy supplies he has claimed credit for were the work of previous administrations, and his failure to act in the last two years is once again putting California in jeopardy for interrupted power supplies," Simon concluded.

Peak demand today reached 41,778 megawatts, which actually exceeded the total amount of power available early in the day, which was only 41,000 megawatts.

With warm weather expected to continue for the next 36-48 hours the state's power grid will continue to be pushed to the limit and Gray Davis' inability to lead will continue to be exposed.

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BILL SIMON FOR GOVERNOR
770 L STREET, SUITE 1110
SACRAMENTO, CA 95814
WWW.SIMONFORGOVERNOR.COM

[Gophack]

Gray Davis will do ANYTHING to keep the power on. He'll spend any money to ensure that there are no blackouts. You know it. We are in such tight fiscal straights as it is ... it's only going to get worse, and Bill Simon is going to have to clean up a HUGE financial mess.