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I think California tends to be consciousness of supplying enough electricity to it's population because electrical outages were probably the deciding factor in
by somat 4y ago
I think California tends to be consciousness of supplying enough electricity to it's population because electrical outages were probably the deciding factor in sending governor Gray Davis home early. This sent a very clear message to the government as to what the population actually wants. Keep the lights on. (as opposed to what they think they want, leading to the buffoonery found in most California bills)
There were news stories a few years ago critical of how California had way too much generating capacity. My thoughts at the time were similar, the people had spoken very emphatically 15 years earlier that they want the power to be kept on, the excessive generating capacity was the government doing that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis
- ncmncm 4y agoManufactured electrical outages were used to remove Gray Davis from office. The crooked system they used ran up a fake bill of $80+ billion, which Davis refused to pay. Schwarzenegger made the state pay it, which he must have promised in exchange for being made governor.
- qohen 4y agoManufactured electrical outages were used to remove Gray Davis from office. i.e. manufactured by energy-traders, primarily at Enron[0], as described on the Wikipedia page about this California electricity crisis[1]). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_electricity_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...