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2014-02-07 Economy
Natural gas shortage hits California power supply
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Posted by Fred 2014-02-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Keep allowing the unregulated influx of undocumented Democrats and indeed the resources will run dry sooner or later all across the country. Along with of course the radical lefts illogical hatred of the energy sector.
Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-02-07 00:25||   2014-02-07 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Power and fuel shortages. How delightfully Third World.
Posted by SteveS 2014-02-07 00:53||   2014-02-07 00:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Meanwhile, back in North Dakota, how much natural gas is simply being flared due to lack of pipelines? Consider how this question is avoided.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418  2014-02-07 01:11||   2014-02-07 01:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Plenty in Texas. But Texas has its own separate power grid, no other state does. So sorry, not gonna loan ya any power or batt gas. You made your enviro bed, you lie in it.
Posted by OldSpook 2014-02-07 01:48||   2014-02-07 01:48|| Front Page Top

#5 
Terribly sorry - appears some static has interfered with this posting. Must be that small-mind cold front coming down from Canada.
Posted by Jerkface Killa 2014-02-07 06:10||   2014-02-07 06:10|| Front Page Top

#6 It's back.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-02-07 06:33||   2014-02-07 06:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Someone is back:
A) Finally posted the required $625.00 for bail
B) Mom let him back in the basement
C) Finally got off the obamacare website after 2 months (still does not know if he has insurance)
D) electricity is back on

I am going to go with B
Posted by Airandee 2014-02-07 06:59||   2014-02-07 06:59|| Front Page Top

#8 What's unneighborly is having a self inflicted energy shortage which you then throw hundreds of millions of dollars at with no-bid buys and then turn around and sue the sellers in court for overcharging, when you set the price with the no-bid.
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-02-07 09:17||   2014-02-07 09:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Airandee

How about:

E) Finally cleared the air and moved around the empty cheetoes bags enough from legalized Marijuana celebrations to find the keyboard. (In his mommy's basement).
Posted by CrazyFool 2014-02-07 10:05||   2014-02-07 10:05|| Front Page Top

#10 California decided that the way to go here in the southern part of the state was to build 'surge plants' powered by natural gas. 'Surge' is in quotes because they seem to be more on line than off.

Finite supply due to limited infrastructure, dependence on outside sources for both gas and electricity, most homes heated by natural gas, and planned phase-out of existing power plants...

At least California has no control over the Hoover dam; they'd have blown it up.
Posted by Pappy 2014-02-07 10:38||   2014-02-07 10:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh gee how sad.

You made this bed, you guys can lie in it. Or die in it for all I care.
Posted by DarthVader 2014-02-07 11:50||   2014-02-07 11:50|| Front Page Top

#12 SoCal is a sink for water, electricity, natural gas. If you want a civilization there you must be more sustainable and not pulling everything away from distant areas through strong arming and political clout.

Texas is smart. Good for them for setting up their own grid.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-02-07 12:43||   2014-02-07 12:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Now, now, DV! We're not all looney liberals. But the nice thing about living in southern California is you are NOT gonna freeze. For one thing, the temperature hardly ever gets into the the forties, much less the freezing thirties. You put on a sweater and a watch cap and you'll be alright. And believe it or not, I have a fireplace and I know how to use it. I might even fire up the chimenea on the back patio and roast some marshmallows, er, that is, after I go surfing.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-02-07 12:55||   2014-02-07 12:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Haven't turned the heat on yet this year.

I'm not voluntarily turning off the hot tub.
Posted by DoDo 2014-02-07 13:14||   2014-02-07 13:14|| Front Page Top

#15 Now that they've banned coal and gotten expedited environmental approval on using up natural gas in power plants instead of using it to displace gasoline (which would upset Saudi Arabia), the grid is stretched much more thin than previously.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-02-07 16:11||   2014-02-07 16:11|| Front Page Top

#16 Rolling blackouts - enron 2. Screw them and their politics.
Posted by newc 2014-02-07 19:45||   2014-02-07 19:45|| Front Page Top

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