Posted on 08/26/2005 9:44:55 AM PDT by WayneLusvardi
California Suffers Another Energy "Perfect Storm" (satire)
California suffered another "perfect storm" on Thursday August 25, resulting in rolling power blackouts affecting 400,000 electricity customers.
A different convergence of factors created the short-lived "perfect storm" of rolling electricity blackouts on Thursday than those that occurred in 2000-01.
Contacted at the Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, electricity economists Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, who originally coined the term "perfect storm" to explain what happened during the California Energy Crisis of 2000-01, were dumbstruck about how to explain the convergence of rolling blackouts on the same day as: the state legislature's rejection of the governor's energy plan; Southern California Edison's "unplanned curtailments" of critical power plants; and the roll-out of Edison's public relations campaign for Prop 80 to re-monopolize electricity in the state.
Authors Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, who wrote the popular book "The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" were equally speechless to come up with an explanation of how a one-day electricity crisis could hit California without Enron gaming the system by manipulating prices.
About the only explanation this writer could find for such an unexplainable event as the mysterious August 25 California rolling electricity blackouts is from the classical economist Adam Smith who, in his book The Wealth of Nations written in 1776, stated: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for a merriment or diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in come contrivance to raise prices."
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No, their diesel generators would have kicked on at their mansions. Only the avergae Joe/Jane gets screwed by the enviros.
Go to http://www.pasadenapundit.com to get the full story with graphic and table from California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO). [Note: Thanks to Freeper BurbankKarl for graphic]
A few years ago during the Enron/Calif. energy crisis, a paper mill in Washington State could not pay their electric bill so they brought in dozens of diesel generators. After a few days, the town people complained about the noise and smog
Ultimately, the paper mill closed for good (Georgia Pacific in Bellingham, WA)
I can only hope the same for the Beverly Hill Mansions!
Ernest_at_the_Beach indexed those posts under *CALPOWERCRISIS.
It has just been revealed that the Pacific Intertie transmission line what was automatically switched off yesterday is owned by the L.A. DWP, another entity controlled by unions with vested interests to re-monopolize the energy system. DWP also had several power plants offline yesterday. Shall we say that things are getting "curiouser and curiouser." Of course, no media probe.
Here's the damage control news release from DWP:
"Upon checking into it, we determined that there was no problem with the actual converter-transformer," she said.
False alarm after all? Isn't it interesting that the only areas blacked out were all in Edison territory?
Here's the link: "Sensor Glitch caused power shutdown" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050826/ap_on_re_us/california_blackouts
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