This is a glimpse into our future is what it is.
Because the generals knew there was a loaded carbine behind every rock and every tree, and if the men weren’t there to shoot the bastards.....the women were.
Americans are very resourceful. If the power goes off here, and it did in a storm, we have ways. The Amish brought in generators and I kept the pizza parlor going.
But we have got to send bambi down the road. We are almost too patient.
BA
While the reasons that Rush cites are valid, there is another source of this failure. India has an extreme problem with bureaucracy far beyond just the desire to reduce coal usage. This is a problem here because every power pole in India has illegal power-taps that the political structure (read bureaucracy) prevents from being removed. It is speculated that illegal use exceeds paid use 3 to 12 fold. It becomes very difficult to have fault-tolerant systems when your paid use cannot support the basic system. Any resemblance between this and how socialism can run out of other people’s money is purely a figment of your imagination.
One of our clients has a service center in India. We usually talk on the phone with them 2-3 times a day. Haven’t heard a word since Friday.
The problem was never the reduction in use of coal. 70 percent of India’s electricity comes from coal because of India’s large coal reserves and that number is rising. And given the major coal reserves, India actually has a stronger coal lobby and interest groups then even US.
Problem is coal only operates at a steady baseload, but it can’t be ramped up suddenly to accommodate quick peak surges in demand.
Another brilliant salvo from the airhead emperor of American airwaves. Saudi Arabia and India are the same in terms of how they treat women? Has Rush ever been to India to see the actual representation of women in the government, corporate world, academia, media or the sheer number of women driving vehicles on the streets? Don't think so...
Rush is just a dangerous combination of feeble mind and loud mouth.