Do California’s Blackouts Make Sense?

Wall Street Journal ^ | October 11, 2019 6:17 pm ET | Holman W. Jenkins

[Vaquero]

“Do(es) California’s BlackoutsMake Sense?”

Answer: NO

[TalBlack]

What doesn’t make sense is voter support for Demonrat politicians. How far can Demonrats fail before their idiot supporters revolt?

[Gay State Conservative]

Of course they make sense...just as surely as poo on the streets of San Fransicko does.

[Sacajaweau]

Massive destructive fires vs TEMPORARY blackout.

If you can't figure this out, you're an idiot.

[fruser1]

Of course it makes sense. When you set up for failure, you get it.

[FreedomPoster]

Yes, as a sure sign California is devolving into 3rd World status.

[Sacajaweau]

People still use candles?? No excuse for that. I have a cheap fluorescent lamp that works just fine....safe and much more light than candles.

[HighSierra5]

Candles are more romantic.

[jonascord]

Here is the $64 question: Are the average Kali SJWs learning anything?

As they smell the food in the fridge rotting, as they hear MS-13 plundering the neighbors, as their phone finally stops beeping to demand that it be recharged, can they see the Milky Way for the first time in their lives?

Or are they blaming it on Trump?

[MrEdd]

Proper firebreaks versus annual disasters.
If you can’t figure this out then you’re a Californian and you will demand people in other states help every year when you’re lack of firebreaks causes every fire to spread out of control.

Americans settling the country in the nineteenth century could calculate how wide firebreaks needed to be from the typical maximum wind velocity for a given area.

Calofornians don’t give a crap about that math stuff, they want tangled underbrush and elbow to elbow expanses of Mcmansions. And its been that way for four decades.

[dp0622]

WOW did you miss the bigger picture.

[TianaHighrider]

Several years ago we were in an ice storm that knocked out our electricity for weeks. And we live right in town too. Until I could run down a generator days later, candles was all I could get my hands on. Now we are prepared a little better in my home.

[Rj Snows]

Calling people names that always is good.

The latest black out lasting 3 days with a top gust of 15 mph (breezy for 3 hours) and most times dead still should be easy to figure out why people are upset with lights being turns off at 330am.

[Mashood]

Let the Democrats live in filth and darkness.

[Sacajaweau]

I’m 75.

[oldasrocks]

My house insurance bill is a lot larger this year. Insurance companies are trying to recover the losses of the western fires in La La land. So the californicate fires effects everyone who buys insurance.

Here in Missouri the brush is cleared under the power lines. Why should we have to pay for the inept guberment policies of californicate?

[Sacajaweau]

I'm in Upstate NY. Two things suffice for a couple days...a fluorescent lamp and a portable radio.....which still works and I bought it in 1988.Our rec center was warm and cozy and set up cots for long term help.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Many house fires are caused by electricity. If we cut off electricity entirely we could prevent all house fires attributed to electricity. (And probably induce even more caused by candles and lanterns.)

Then we could dramatically reduce highway deaths by lowering the top speed limit to 35 mph!

Safety first!

[Mashood]

Pay your mortgage off, then you don’t have to buy insurance.