Posted on 03/17/2016 8:28:48 AM PDT by detective
Although the Venezuelan government blamed the decrease in size of the Guri dam — the fourth largest artificial lake in the world — on El Niño, engineers said recently that the crisis was actually caused by mismanagement of resources, thermal system malfunction and drought.
The Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant, second in the world for electricity production, recently saw its water levels decrease to just 3.56 meters above total collapse.
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This is what socialism is like in real life.
Gas is like 11 cents per gallon there. And yet they have an electricity crisis? Ain’t socialism grand!
I’m waiting for the Democrats to propose sending millions of batteries to affected Venezuelans...lol.
Another example why Atlas Shrugged is now nonfiction.
Just dam.
Good old Bernie loves him some Venezuela. Given the chance, I’m sure he’d solve all our problems by following their example!
You have to work hard to screw up a country as endowed as Venezuela is with natural resources. Really hard. Total neglect of vital systems, diversion of maintenance funds to corrupt party followers, expropriation of the property that most could help you and alienation of anyone who managed it. Well, at least the people have their socialist pride, if that too isn’t rationed yet.
John Galt: When you see the lights of Caracas go dark, then you will know we have won................................
If you like economic chaos, anarchy of production, and totalitarianism, you’ll love socialism
Anyway, it was about an American who got fed up with modern society and decided to go live "off the grid" in the jungle. He built all these contraptions out of wood and old pipes that he salvaged from junkyards. One of them turned water into ice without using electricity. I forget how the book ended but I don't think it ended very well.
I had the exact same thought.
This reminded me of what Milton Friedman said, that if you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in five years you would be out of sand.
I believe that was made into a movie with Harrison Ford. BTW, it had Butterfly McQueen in it, one of the last surviving (at the time) actresses from GWTW.
I remember that novel. There was a rather poor movie based on it, starring Harrison Ford.
In the movie The Mosquito Coast the father played by Harrison Ford invites some local revolutionaries to his compound. Once inside the compound they turn on him. They threaten his family. He kills them but they shoot up the compound and destroy the air conditioning system.
It goes downhill from there.
This is impossible because Venezuela has huge quantities of oil and they are Socialist.
Under Trump we fix the country. In return we take the oil.
Feel the bern!
On this particular trip Honduras was experiencing a year long drought and thus there was little water to power their hydro-electric dams and they had to purchase their electricity from Guatemala I think.
Anyway, the electricity throughout the country was being rationed and there times of the day where all the power was out. Fortunately the small resort we were staying in had generators for their restaurant and bar area but all the beach houses were subjected to the rationing hours......
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