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2010-05-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

California Assembly passes bill barring some out-of-state power

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Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-11 18:15|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Funny how they don't include provisions for building power plants in California to replace the power that's going to be lost as a result of this legislation. Then when the rolling blackouts start, they'll blame it on Bush.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-05-11 18:54|| 2010-05-11 18:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Good God! Do these legislative dolts realize that California imports a quarter of its electricity? On a hot day, it imports much more. And it's not like a gas station where you can wait a few days to fill up the tank. It's electricity used = electricity provided at all times.

Being a firm believer that practical lessons learned are the lessons that stay with one for a lifetime, I propose all out of state providers cut power to CA, preferably at 3PM on a hot August. Let's see how quaint pre-industrial life is when they have to live it.

Posted by ed 2010-05-11 19:09|| 2010-05-11 19:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The legislation, A.B. 2037, targets cross-border generation in Mexico

And does it strike anyone else as extremely sad that "hi-tech" CA can't even get its act together as well as the Mexicans and has to buy electricity from the brownout south of the border?

Posted by ed 2010-05-11 19:19|| 2010-05-11 19:19|| Front Page Top

#4 The first inclination was that this was directed at the Palo Verde Nuclear plant, but then the light dawned that it is meant to attack the *coal*-fired Navajo Generating Station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Generating_Station

Remember that the Democrats are on the warpath against all forms of coal mining and use. The NGS has long been hated by the left.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-11 19:37|| 2010-05-11 19:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Well what are they going to do in California when the lights go out?

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-11 19:44|| 2010-05-11 19:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Well what are they going to do in California when the lights go out?

Just make sure the last one out locks the door [to the asylum].

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-11 21:34|| 2010-05-11 21:34|| Front Page Top

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