Posted on 05/08/2015 1:56:43 PM PDT by PROCON
Venezuelans are criticizing electricity rationing that government officials began carrying out this week after the country’s electrical system continued to overload because of an ongoing heat wave.
Ministries and other public institutions will now work until 1:00 p.m., reducing their workday from 8 to 6 hours. Private companies have also been required to cut their electricity intake by 10 percent.
The overall goal is to achieve a 20-percent reduction of country’s power consumption in order to prevent overloading the system.
"We are in the presence of a significant increase in the temperature," said Jesse Chacón, the country's Energy Minister, according to Reuters.
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
You think rationing will cause more crime?
Wait until the gibmedat's EBT cards don't get recharged one month.
Baltimore toilet paper looter guy looked like he could have been straight out of Venezuela. It’s here....
Death to the capatilist pigs destroying the workers paradise of Venezuala!
(What? You mean it’s socialists running the country!?)
Actually that has been happening for a while with water,according to VZ blogs
Didn’t Maduro just give everyone a raise so they could afford toilet paper that isn’t there.
Got to give Venezuela’s Supremo Jefe bus driver credit. Hugo Chavez talked a game but Maduro, he delivers the Cuba dream good and hard.
30 percent raise.
65 percent inflation.
Venezuela is reducing its carbon footprint! Rejoice! Another success of socialism.
Yep, all those Venezuelans who dreamed of visiting the paradise called Cuba can now relax, stay home, and still visit. Cuba is coming to them.
“But Venezuelan government officials have blamed the blackouts on climate change. “This is, of course, linked to global warming and the excessive industrialization of capitalism”
You just KNEW capitalists were at fault! Curious though that only Venezuela is suffering like this from “global warming”. Perhaps their country sits under some kind of freak atmospheric sun-focusing “global warming” lens that is frying it like an anthill under attack from a toddler’s magnifying glass.
If it weren’t for that dang Global Warming, there would be no boiling-hot Venezuela.
Venezuela, very near the equator, is not just boiling hot, places like Houston, Miami and Tampa, know humidity is what kills you, well, the humidity in Venezuela is even worse than those places.
Sean Penn needs to rush down and build a coal plant, or hand out some beans and water.
He loves Venezuela.
That magnifying glass on the ants is called MARXISM.
“”We are in the presence of a significant increase in the temperature”
Texas is going through that right now...but then we’re not run by DEMOCRATS.
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