[paul51]

Like a third world country. Instead of an energy policy that provides for cheap plentiful energy, we go in the opposite direction

[the invisib1e hand]

it’s freezin’ in NYC today.

[dragnet2]

Only 87 where I am in So. Cal at straight up noon, with a nice 10mph pacific breeze with little or no humidity.

Everything considered, so far this summer has been pretty mild.

[Kartographer]

"Yeah, but it's dry heat"

[lafroste]

LOW 90’s? In So. Cal in the summer? I remember 120 degree days for a week. This is an attempt to bolster crap & tax. Don’t fall for it (although the electric utility may be hurting, but if it is, it is because of regulations from Sacropsycho).

[ByteMercenary]

I am not impressed as daily it has been over or close to 100 for about three weeks. Do you think CA will want to but power from Texas like they did a few years ago? Will they bitch about the price again? Maybe we should tell them to buy it from Obama’s nukes, not ours ... oh wait ... I think the price just went up again!

[editor-surveyor]

Getting cooler today...

[Buckeye McFrog]

I thought that this Smart Grid technology allowed Democrats to individually shut off air conditioners based on racial criteria and party of voter registration....

[Sig Sauer P220]

Quick, we need more wind power!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Now is the time to pull the plug on all electricity sold to California that is produced in coal fired power plants!

[truthguy]

Okay, here's a thought. Having a Power Black Out or Brown Out in SOCAL would be a good thing. I'd like to see how people would cope with several days without electricity. Let's see how they would handle it when the world comes crashing down upon them. Why they couldn't even watch American Idol or Doprah. Boy would they be mad.

It would actually be great! Then maybe these idiot Californians (and I'm one of them but not an idiot) will see the light and start proposing some nuclear power plants. Build 2 more units at Diablo Canyon. Put 2 more units at San Onofre and 2 more units at the site where Rancho Seco was to have been built. This would go a long way to solving the problem and just might create some jobs in an area that desperately needs them. So I'm hoping that the Blackouts happen. It's the ONLY thing that will wake up the knuckle draggers.

[The Great RJ]

Gee let’s hope those windmills are turning and the wind is blowing exactly right during peak demand times. It would be ironic if all those California tree hugger environmentalists couldn’t get their Blackberries and I-pods charged because the wind wasn’t blowing.

[sissyjane]

I live in the Sierra, and it’s been over 100 for the last week and a half. I don’t have air conditioning, and I’m about OVER IT!!!

[Bean Counter]

It seems to me that they have had so many foreclosures in California, it really ought to make a dent in power consumption this summer....