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Lights out: House plan would protect nation's electricity from solar flare, nuclear bomb
Washington Examiner ^
| JUNE 17, 2013 | 6:45 PM
| PAUL BEDARD
Posted on 06/19/2013 8:33:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Secure High-voltage Infrastructure for Electricity from Lethal Damage.
Sounds like something from a spoof spy movie.
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:33:49 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Deregulate the power industry. As long as government calls the shots capital will wasted and the infrastructure will decline until it collapses.
Pass this bill and a few cronies will get richer and the electricity infrastructure will be worse off.
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:38:03 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: BenLurkin
The faster they get this done, the better. Much of the electrical grid needs to be modernized anyway.
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:40:50 AM PDT
by
struggle
To: BenLurkin
Plan involves 20 million Mexicans and a lot of candles...
To: BenLurkin
To be bought and paid for by your “skyrocketing” utility bills.
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:42:22 AM PDT
by
yobid
(Catastrophic failure is the only pathway for improvement)
To: struggle
So, the level of capital investment in the power generation industry should be set by politics, not the marketplace? Seriously?
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:42:39 AM PDT
by
Mr. Lucky
To: BenLurkin
do they think these don’t exist
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:47:23 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
To: struggle
The faster they get this done, the better.
Yeah, like we need more GOVERNMENT solutions to our problems. Oy ...
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:49:59 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: BenLurkin
such as surge protectors Is there a single High Voltage Transmission line in the US that doesn't already have this equipment to protect against lightning strikes and switching surges?
This like creating a new law to require automobiles to have bumpers.
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:51:37 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: BenLurkin
Since our nukes, particularly those on submarines, are well protected against EMP, perhaps the POTUS should announce that an EMP attack against the US would be regarded as no less than a nuclear attack against the US. The US response to such an attack would be that any nation that instigated the attack or in the case of terrorists aided and abetted those terrorists would be subject to a full nuclear response from the US. This is nothing different than the mutually assured destruction policy that kept the peace during the cold war.
However, Obama would give no credibility to that policy as he is seen as weak and vacillating.
To: struggle
you don’t know anything at all about this do you.
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:57:22 AM PDT
by
Rich21IE
To: BenLurkin
what a friggin boondogle, porkulus pos this is. Somebody’s going to get rich and nothing will be made any better.
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:58:42 AM PDT
by
Rich21IE
To: The Great RJ
Hussein would welcome an EMP attack on America.
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posted on
06/19/2013 8:59:33 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
It is nearly impossible to protect us from a solar flare. This is another expensive power grab.
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posted on
06/19/2013 9:00:51 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
To: struggle
“The faster they get this done, the better.”
They, who? And what, exactly, needs to be done?
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posted on
06/19/2013 9:01:43 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
To: BenLurkin
More payoffs to the BIG Utilities that donate and have fund-raisers for the Prolitereate, then siphon tax dollars to pay for their repairs/expansion/trading.
Follow the money, and it's easy to see the Millions spent on Lobbying, Campaign Donations, Fund-Raising sponsorships, with a Quid Pro Quo of favoable treatment AND BIG MONEY GRANTS of taxpayers' earnings to the same bunch, every time.
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posted on
06/19/2013 9:02:13 AM PDT
by
traditional1
(Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
To: CodeToad
Something tells me it’ll involve a lot of expensive, privacy grabbing equipment that can only be procured from big campaign donor’s companies.
Call it a hunch.
To: BenLurkin
the government will fix this like it fixes everything else.
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posted on
06/19/2013 9:06:43 AM PDT
by
schm0e
("we are in the midst of a coup.")
To: BenLurkin
Build hamster wheels for all Demonrats.
Lock them in.
Whip them into meaningful production.
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posted on
06/19/2013 9:09:12 AM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
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