The state's electricity crisis may be forgotten, but it's not gone

The Orange County Register ^ | October 28, 2001 | Alan Bock

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According to Stanford economist James Sweeney, California's government managed to make almost every misstep possible in dealing with our energy problems this year and last. A series of challenges that could have been overcome with common-sense leadership were allowed to become a crisis, Sweeney told an audience of journalists and academics at the opening session of a conference Oct. 18 and 19, and is likely to evolve into a long-term blight over the next several years.

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[snopercod]

Great cartoon. California is heading toward bankruptcy, immediately followed by a huge tax increase.

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The drumbeat for a tax increases already started. There is a proposal to raise the state sales tax .25%. Californian already pay $9.90 to the state for every $100 earned.

[SierraWasp]

Ya but... We could never have tolerated that religious fanatic/pro-life Ayatolla Lungren that scared alla the women & chillerun so soon after the "Year of the woman," now... could we?!? Besides he was a Repellican and a harsh right winger at that! We Californians all know "MEAN PEOPLE SUCK!"

We read that 1998 Bumper Sticker!!!

Plus... the EnviralNazis scraped off the word "MEAN" and just left it at "PEOPLE SUCK!" Looked really neat on their Volvo's!

That bumpersticker was so effective, it caused even conservative Repellican's to support Governor Lowbeam!!!

[SierraWasp]

Ooops! I fergot ta phlag a few good No.CA'ians!!!

[MistrX]

The California Report on CPR reported that we had so much excess electricity recently, that we had to pay to get other states to take some off our hands. We will not let our fellow Californians forget Gray-out Davis' inept bumbling.

[MistrX]

Some idiots in Sacramento are pushing for a "temporary" sales tax hike of 2%! The same idiots who taxed and regulated most of our aerospace industries to the point they up and left for greener pastures. They are all bumbling, socialist jackasses.

[Robert357]

The cartoon is priceless and the article is great. In the Pacific Northwest we referred to our power problems as the "Perfect Storm."

Back when I use to design nuclear power plants, we would laugh at lunch about how we tried to make nuclear control systems "idot proof," but no matter what we did, mother nature would take our challenge and come up with a superior idiot! Sort of like reverse Darwinian selection.

I think that in the same spirit, California liberal Democratic voters have come up with a "superior" Gubinatorial Idiot! Over the years they have proven to politicians what works and what doesn't from a re-election perspective. Bighting the bullet to solve serious problems does not allow easy re-election. Davis is a product of the natural selection process of politics. As the cartoon documents that superior idiot (Gov Davis) has provided the state with quite a legacy!

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"There is a proposal to raise the state sales tax .25%."

I am SO glad we moved from California years ago. Blech! How long will people stand still for this incredibly stupid political screwup which they will have to pay for YEARS with their hard earned money.

We are moving to unregulated electricity here in Texas and already there are problems. However I believe our elected representatives aren't as inept as Gray Davis appears to be. (At least I pray they aren't.)

Regards, Jen

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Bighting the bullet to solve serious problems does not allow easy re-election

Exactly. Gray Davis made decisions based on lowering his negative exposure to the voters. That's why he paid for ads during the summer using his re-elections campaign funds. The smart thing would have to have the rate payers take a larger, but shorter hit. But this would have been death for him politically. Because of this, we're stuck with a plan that is akin to paying the monthly minimum on a high interest credit card.

[Calvin Locke]

regulatory failure rather than market failure

Try regulatory incompetence. Much more accurate.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[okie01]

Outstanding article. At last, from a member of the California media, an intelligent assessment of the reasons why the crisis occurred and its eventual cost to Californians.

Courtesy of Goober Davis.

[Phil V.]

$10,000,000,000 would look pretty good about now. What did we get?

FU%^ED!!!

[SierraWasp]

Yeah... he spent the gold mine and we got the shaft!

Ya know, the initiative process is what gives us "follower," poll-driven politicians who are too timid to be leaders in this State!

If any Governor, Mayor or other elected official were ever to choose a course, steer consistently along it and start accomplishing something... some other idiot like Harvey Rose-n-fell would pay other negativistic idiots to gather signatures to put something on the ballot to stop such a leader and his/her course of action!!!

It really is a case of "The nail that sticks up, gets hammered down!"(old oriental proverb)

Thus, you see that Pat Brown and Ronald Reagan were the last two Governors to ever accomplish anything meaningful in this State, since Jerry Brown blew the property tax problem just as bad as Gray Davis has blown the energy crisis, by being reluctant to do anything and show leadership.

I read in today's paper that the March Primary Ballot is almost naked of propositions. Rosenfeld wanted to put a "Prop.13" style measure on to freeze the load on ratepayers and it scared Davis to death!!!

Yet Grampa Dave can't see the dark-side of extreme measures since Prop. 13 seemed to do so much good... for a time. I can't even reply to him anymore without him attacking me about it, so I just gave up.

Yep! $10,000,000,000 divided by 30,000,000 taxpayers is serious money that used to be under our control.

[Bernard Marx]

Some idiots in Sacramento are pushing for a "temporary" sales tax hike of 2%! The same idiots who taxed and regulated most of our aerospace industries to the point they up and left for greener pastures.

Kinko's, Ventura's third largest employer, announced last week it is moving its national HQ to Dallas and taking 500-700 good jobs with it. The cost of housing and a lousy business climate were cited by the CEO as the underlying reason.

The local socialists were...almost...alarmed by it. They prattled on about maybe it being a mistake to try to entice new business here on the basis of the laid-back lifestyle alone. But most shrugged if off arrogantly, implying things are so great here new businesses will be breaking their necks to get here. Meanwhile, small electronics firms in the area are quietly moving on to greener pastures.