Ahhhh a little more mis-information.
Michael would rather have people sitting in the dark and rotating outages
I guees.
When electricity reserves fall short in the state emergencies are declared
and a variety of measures are implemented.
The decision was made to prevent the grid from going black.
Sheesh, wake up and come back to reality.
--- Michael Meuser <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> More news from the oil treadmill front. California is to remove the
> cap on electrical power and restart polluting power plants. For
> more see:
>
> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/120900-02.htm
>
> What John and I have been getting at, and I think it has been
> presented clearly, is that there have been political/economic
> decisions made over the last several decades that have
> encouraged oil based power generation and discouraged any
> alternatives. We cannot say with certainty what it would be like
> today if history had been different, but the mess we're in now
> (escalating costs, brownouts, pollution, global warming) may have
> been prevented. There were many during these decades that
Again I shall repeat this because I have a dim hope it will penetrate.
The current shortages in California are the result of a piss poor
deregulation model not because oil prices were high. Oil prices have been
high before and there weren't these kinds of problems.
Here is a list of the policy problems...i.e. bad political decisions.
1. The massive amounts of red tape in builiding fossil fuel plants.
These policies have made it very difficult to build fossil fuel plants in
CA. Contrary to your assertions it takes about 4-5 years to site, license
and build a generating facility.
2. With the chosen structure of deregulation there were no incentives
over the last 5 years for the private utilities to build generating
stations as it would most likley just add to stranded costs.
This means that will an increasing demand and a given load eventually the
shit would hit the fan.
3. The currently deregulated electricity generators have market power and
set the price at a very high level by restricting the amount of capacity
that is available and by gaming the market structure.
When you combine all three of these you get one big f---ing mess, which is
what we have in California.
> were concerned about just such an outcome as we see today,
> but those voices did not count for much. We do have the ability
> and the responsibility to begin listening and acting now. If not,
> it's only going to get worse.
Well it is going to get worse, and not because of the utilities, because
nobody is listening to them.
Steve
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--Jamey Lee West
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