🚀 go-pugleaf

On 12 Jun 2001 23:42:56 GMT, Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@rahul.net> wrote:

>: Yeah, sure.  And having a few extra megawatts wouldn't solve the
>: problem either.  Enjoy the summer.  Pay for your electricity or sweat
>: in the dark.
>
>     One mo' time...they were not going to build the capacity to
>generate more megawatts, because they didn't believe the
>investment climate was right.  Either nuclear or conventional
>megawatts.

Yeah.  After building NO powerplants in the last 15 years, now
suddenly FIFTEEN POWER PLANTS will be built in the next 2 years.  Gee,
I wonder why that is?


>     First, there will now be warnings before shutdowns;

Yeah.  "Gay" Davis is going to give you "warnings".  Uh, if he KNOWS
there is going to be a blackout, WHY doesn't he FIX IT???   I don't
think I'd be riding any elevators in Kalifornia for the next couple of
years.

> second,
>if energy is more expensive and/or unreliable in California than
>in other places, energy intensive industry can and will move
>elsewhere.  Simple economics.  A lot of things like that have
>already happened, leading to the concentration of science,
>engineering, etc.

Well, there is going to be a test.  Only people with money or some
smarts are going to be permitted to immigrate from Kalifornia.  You
have to keep the fruits and nuts.

>     Except that use of the electricity by high-tech industry
>and its employees probably has more economic benefits to the
>state than smelting does.

OK, just remember that when you have to bring your own bottle when you
want wine.
>
>: Yeah, you guys are doing a bang-up job.  Pretty soon there is going to
>: be a dust bowl in reverse.  Millions of broke, desparate people with
>: their meager goods lashed to their Camaros fleeing the bankrupt state.
>
>     We'll be happy to ship out the low-wage jobs.  The workers
>will be able to afford housing, and the employers will be able
>to afford the energy.  Sounds like a good deal all around.

Yeah.  I'm sure the guy that runs a big computer company is going to
like it when HE has to cut the grass cuz all the "low-wage jobs" have
left.  "Fries with that burger?  That'll be $27.50"
>
>: Just don't come to Texas.  We don't need anymore socialists than we
>: already have.
>
>     I think all those socialists who own and work at the aluminum
>smelters will be very happy in Texas.  And Texas is obviously happy
>to have the pollution.
  
Yeah.  As soon as you drive all of the industry out of Kalifornia and
jobs and income, you can sit around and smoke dope and sing Kumbaya
and hope someone else will take care of you.

GOOD LUCK!