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Arizona Official Threatens to Cut Off Los Angeles Power as Payback for Boycott
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| May 19, 2010
| Judson Berger
Posted on 05/19/2010 11:48:14 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: NC28203
My thinking too.
I guess people get caught up in emotion.
To: softwarecreator
>>>"If an economic boycott is truly what you desire, I will be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements so Los Angeles no longer receives any power from Arizona-based generation."
I just thought conservatives were generally opposed to the state "encouraging" private corporations to act in certain ways. State entities tend to be heavy handed in their encouraging.
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:21:08 PM PDT
by
NC28203
To: Mozilla
Since I’m comfortable that LA would make sure critical users such as hospitals would get the power they need, I’m on board with this. In fact, now is a good time. Air conditioning season is coming. :)
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:21:13 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: massgopguy
MASTER BLASTER RUNS BARTERTOWN!!!
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:22:08 PM PDT
by
RickB444
(beat your sword into a plow and you'll wind up plowing the fields of someone who kept their sword.)
To: softwarecreator
“If an economic boycott is truly what you desire, I will be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements so Los Angeles no longer receives any power from Arizona-based generation.”
Let me translate that for you. “If talking tough boosts my approval, even though I have not right nor power to effect any change, then I’ll gladly do it!”
To: Mozilla
Give LA a 24-hour taste of their future, hopefully during a Suns-Lakers playoff game. That would be justice.
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:23:31 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
To: softwarecreator
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:25:29 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: NC28203
Who owns the electricity in NC?
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:27:48 PM PDT
by
marajade
(Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
To: thethirddegree
PULL THE PLUGNOW!
Already on it!
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:28:50 PM PDT
by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: NC28203
So it appears that folks here approve of the State of Arizona telling the private utilities operating in that state to whom they can sell the power that they produce.As I understand it, the power is owned by the state through agreements signed long ago relating to the sharing of power coming from resources common to multiple states. The power companies carry it and profit from it, but they don't "own" it.
That is not to say there isn't some power generated by the utilities themselves through coal-fired plants or something, but the state does have some say over how the power they "own" is distributed.
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:29:30 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: Noamie
Notice how every time the Dear Leader takes sides, he takes the stand that is against the hard-working, patriotic American taxpayer/voter/citizen?
I wonder if LA has even been paying for that power they get from AZ or just sending IOUs.
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:30:30 PM PDT
by
NEMDF
To: sabe@q.com
>>>Who owns the electricity in NC?
I pay my bill to Duke Energy. They are a publicly traded company (DUK). I assume it comes from the nuclear plant just up the road.
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:31:46 PM PDT
by
NC28203
To: Reagan69
Should be an interesting summer in L.A. all right — good thing I have excellent a/c in the car, and am getting my very furry dog her ‘summer cut’ next week.
Well, I’ll save on electric bills at least! Yeah, should be fun for sure!
To: crazydad
I can see when push comes to shove you will not know who is on your side though. That is what scares me. I know the feeling all too well.
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:33:16 PM PDT
by
softwarecreator
(Obama is AmericaÂ’s Katrina)
To: Ann Archy
That is the best response I’ve seen to these stupid boycott ideas!
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:33:45 PM PDT
by
ninergold3
(Danny Tarkanian for US Senate (NV) - www.tark2010.org)
To: NC28203
And NC doesn’t care if Duke Energy sells it to you considering they are operating in their state?
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:34:04 PM PDT
by
marajade
(Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
To: NoGrayZone
The Mayor was at the White House visiting with the Mexican President, but an aide read a statement that said the Mayor wouldn't respond to threats. It's funny that when you threaten to harm AZ economy, it's sending a “message”, but it's a “threat” when you tell them what may happen in return.
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:35:06 PM PDT
by
DejaJude
(Calling illegal aliens "migrants" is like calling shoplifters "customers". (stolen tagline)
To: sabe@q.com
>>>And NC doesnt care if Duke Energy sells it to you considering they are operating in their state?
As a regulated utility serving my locality, the state of NC does have an interest in Duke Energy's sales of electricity to me, a NC resident. I, however, doubt that the state of NC has much of a role in the pricing that Duke Energy charges to a resident just over the state line in SC for energy produced from that same nuclear power plant here in NC.
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:39:07 PM PDT
by
NC28203
To: Mozilla
One day of a Los Angeles brownout, with all the criminals taking over, will make the city kiss AZ’s again and again and again.
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:40:06 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(ISLAM -- America's road to destruction.)
To: Mozilla
Pierce threatened to pull the plug if the City Council does not reconsider. No he didn't. He does not have that authority. He stated clearly if LA wants to be consistant with the stated intent to not purchase Arizona products, they should not be importing electricity from Arizona and as a public service comissioner, he would be glad to allow the Arizona utilities to end their contracts with a city that does not want their product.
In other words, he called LA's bluff showing them to be hypocrites. Without that electricity they import frm AZ, the lights go out in LA.
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posted on
05/19/2010 12:40:41 PM PDT
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Ditto
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