[bicyclerepair]

Can they be any more stupid out there?

[Anti-Kenyan]

“Can they be any more stupid out there?”

Stupid question, Yes they can

[Jim Noble]

I just spent four days in San Diego.

Every building I went into (I did not go into any homes) had a warning sign that the building contained substances "known to the State of California to cause cancer".

What's up with that? Lotta cancer out there?

[OCCASparky]

Can they be any more stupid out there?
Don't encourage them. Here, let's do the math, shall we?

Assuming EVERY HOUSEHOLD in CA has a $2/mo savings, and a retail KwH price of 15 cents a KwH, that means in the average month, you used an extra 13 KwH.

Now assume 4 people per household and 40 million people in CA (a bit off, but makes for easy calculation). So in a month's period, we have an extra 130,000 MwH (13 KwH X 10,000,000 households) in a one month period.

So, how much have we REALLY saved? 130,000 MwH divided by 720 hours in a month comes up with a net savings to the grid of....(drum roll, please)...

181 Megawatts at any given time. Wow--quite a bit, you say.

Not so fast. Consider that:

On an average summer day, CalISO load (the investor-owned utilities) have a peak loading of over 48,000 MW. This doesn't include munis such as LADWP, SMUD, Riverside, Anaheim, etc. So the total consumption in California on peak at any given day may be well in excess of 65,000 MW.

That's right, boys and girls. These people are wasting YOUR tax dollars over the possible "waste" of less than 1/4 of one percent of electrical consumption in the state of California at any particular time.

Oh, and for the record, before I moved out of that socialist hellhole three years ago, my last electric bill (August) was over $400. I don't think two bucks one way or the other was gonna make me or break me.