Posted on 01/22/2005 12:18:05 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Southern California may have a tough time keeping the lights on this summer, state energy officials said Friday.
Officials from the California Public Utilities Commission and the operator of the state's transmission grid said a combination of growing demand for power, aging generating plants and not enough transmission lines could dim lights.
State Sen. Martha Escutia, D-Norwalk, who heads the Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee, said Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should convene an "energy summit" on power blackouts and other electricity problems.
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Shoulda bin "sueprize," oh well.
LOL...thanks for pinging the gang...
In PC California far be it from me to mention Nuke Power as an energy source that might be available. I think it's best that they go without power for a time to bring some reality to the west coast.
Should I tell lewislynn?
In PC California far be it from me to mention Nuke Power as an energy source that might be available. I think it's best that they go without power for a time to bring some reality to the west coast.
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Mention it, because it is the best way to go. Calif. needs energy and alot of it. Screw the enviro-whackos and their perpetual whining -- the technology exists, and has for some time, to have SAFE, COST-EFFECTIVE NUKE ENERGY. It is a no-brainer.
You can thank Chairman and CEO of Edison International, John Bryson, for killing the 980MW B&W reactor SMUD had at Rancho Seco.
BTTT!!!!!!!
Which is why it won't happen. The purveyors of natural gas have an interest in this shortage and have paid the greenies handsomely to provide it for them.
Looks like he is busy working the FairTax topic....
In the meantime, tighten air quality regulations and demagogue the "Texas Energy Pirates" and "Greedy Energy Companies". Threaten to throw their CEO's in jail with "spike" or "bubba".
Hell, it worked last time and the saps never even noticed.
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Add to this a very poor water retention season in most of the northwest. White Pass Ski Resort, roughly between Yakima and Tacoma, had to close due to warmer weather and lack of snow. This doesn't happen very often in the Cascades in January!
Some thirty years of adversarial confrontation by the environmentalists, and they still do not get the cause-and-effect of their actions, legal and otherwise.
California COULD be almost self-sufficient in electrical energy production, but they have chosen to play the regulatory game. Given a free market and common-sense application of emissions and other environmental regulations, there is enough potential that could be developed so California could continue to be part of the First World. Hydroelectric, natural gas, even alternative sources, are at nowhere near the point of being fully utilized. Instead, the state commission has chosen to sap the power generation cpapbilities of the surrounding states, with the resulting increase in demand and the limited power available driving prices up disproportionately.
The laws of economics cannot be repealed.
I assumed the heavy rains in California had filled the hydroelectic reservoirs and made this year invulnerable. I guess not.
Too bad. Big Blue State, makes its' own public utility and environmental laws.
Not my business or concern.
Let them figure out their own mess.
Certainly not a problem worth using MY Federal Tax dollars to fix.
Another orchestrated circus..
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