Thursday, June 21, 2012

Third-World Status, Dead Ahead: California, Texas Warn Residents to Prepare for Blackouts, Thanks to the Obama EPA

Gee, and it was sooo hard to predict that destroying America's capability of generating electric power would lead to... blackouts. Some headlines for your consideration:

NPR -- "Offline Nuclear Plant Squeezes Energy Access In Calif.":

With summer here — and increased energy use with it — the state is bracing for the possibility of rolling blackouts in San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange County. L.A. Times reporter Abby Sewell talks with Melissa Block about what's being done to stave off an energy calamity.

Your Houston News -- "Summer: a time for blackouts and droughts":

When the Texas power grid demand hit about 65,000 megawatts last summer, [it] issued emergency conservation requests. For comparison, the grid hit about 56,000 megawatts on Monday.

Once the grid hits capacity, rolling blackouts can occur. That is when targeted areas have electricity cut off for a short period. Hospitals and other emergency or essential places are normally exempt from such blackouts.

...We don’t have to live in the dark ages, but we don’t need to run every electrical component we have in the house/office.

I would have a lot more faith in the EPA if their thousands of highly paid bureaucrats lived as they would have us live. That is, they forego all of the wonders offered by fossil fuels -- food, clothing, and travel by air and car, for starters.

They should be the guinea pigs for their own policies. And we'll see how they like living in the third-world country they seek.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

THESE ARE FAKED BLACKOUTS!!! TO TRAIN US, TO GET USED TO BEING INCONVENIENCED... TO SELL THE CLIMATE SCAM!!! WHILE OUR ENERGY IS SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER!!! ALSO TO RIG THEIR SMART METERS TO EVERY HOME FOR SPYGRID, AND TO ROB US, FOR 10 TIMES WHAT WE ACTUALLY USE!! ITS JUST, BACK DOOR.. CAP & TAX!!

Anonymous said...

THE GOVT, IS BEHIND THE BLACKOUTS!!! DEMAND LETTERS SENT TO ALL UTILITY COMPANIES, RESTRICT OUR ENERGY INTENTIONALLY!!! TO PROMOTE THEIR FAKE AGENDA!! THE ORDER TO CUT OFF ELECTRICITY, COMES STRAIGHT FROM THE WHITEHOUSE, NOT ACCORDING TO USAGE!!! BARRY DOES LOVE HIS EGO/POWER TRIPS..IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE!!!

Anonymous said...

YOUR BEING TRAINED AMERICA!!!! LIKE PAVLOVS DOG!!! QUESTION IS, HOW MANY OF YOU ARE SMART ENOUGH TO FIGURE IT OUT!!?

Anonymous said...

Oh, shut the hell up, TAB. You and your unhinged BS is tiring.

directorblue said...

To be fair, I don't think that's TAB.

Anonymous said...

The SoCal problem is part screw up on the part of SCE management in buying equipment from the wrong manufacturer. A domestic supplier could have done a better job (my employer for example!)

However, the US NRC is making matters much worst then need be by be too much of a stickler on restart.

Funny about Texas, the new nuclear project that was to be built there was cancelled due to pressure from the Obama administration - I worked on that puppy for 4 years, only to see the owner bribed by the Feds with a gravy train solar plant in Texas for dropping their nuclear plans.