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lol.. chickens coming home to roost roost roost, maybe?
just like old times, indeed, and surprise, much the same faces are in office while Rome begins to combust.
Posted on 09/16/2005 9:59:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO – Four years after electricity prices soared and blackouts rolled across California, the state is in danger of another energy crisis – this one involving gasoline and natural gas as well, said a draft report Friday. The state is a captive of its own geographic and regulatory isolation, separated by miles and mountains from many refineries and fossil fuel sources. Moreover, the state sets stricter fuel standards to trim air pollution, driving up prices and limiting availability as is evident in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, said the California Energy Commission.
"California's way of life is threatened by its growing dependence on oil and natural gas, spiraling energy prices, potential supply shortages and an inadequate and aging energy delivery infrastructure," said the report that, in its final version, will go to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators.
The draft was released as a three-day international global warming conference hosted by the commission and the California Environmental Protection Agency concluded. Commissioners are to vote on adopting the report Nov. 16.
An EPA panel separately released draft proposals for how the state can meet Schwarzenegger's goal of cutting the state's emissions of greenhouse gases to 2000 levels by 2010, 1990 levels by 2020, and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. A final version will go to Schwarzenegger in January.
The problems are interlinked: Warming temperatures could harm the Sierra Nevada snow pack that provides hydroelectricity, while hotter summers will drive up electricity demand.
"As the state's demand for electricity intensifies, California could face severe shortages in the next few years," partly as a result of the warming trend, the energy report warned.
Both panels recommended conservation, improved technology and regulatory changes among responses.
But the energy commission report warns that "the state has made only minimal progress" since it made similar recommendations two years ago, and calls for policy-makers to "take immediate action." Few new power plants are operating despite an intensive drive after the last electricity crisis, with 7,000 megawatts worth of approved plants on hold due to regulatory and market problems.
California's demand for transportation fuels has increased nearly 50 percent in 20 years. It is second only to Texas in consumption of natural gas, 87 percent of which is imported from other states or nations and much of which goes to produce electricity.
Electricity transmission problems last year cost the state's economy more than $1 billion, the energy report estimated, and this summer led to Southern California's first rolling blackouts since the 2000-2001 crisis.
The headlines in my local newspaper stated that natural gas prices were subject to rising by 70% this winter.
The wood (clean-up from hurricane Katrina) I place out on the roadside for FEMA removal is being salvaged by the locals, unlike it was for hurricane Ivan.
Or they could just send the illegals home and cut consumption by 20 to 50% depending on what percentage of the state you believe to be illegal.
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lol.. chickens coming home to roost roost roost, maybe?
just like old times, indeed, and surprise, much the same faces are in office while Rome begins to combust.
I retract my earlier post to you as to, ignorance, not stupidity. You have proved it is indeed the latter.
It must be nice to believe something without supporting facts.
What you are going to have to explain is how the major donors to the environmental movement (leftists all): the Pew family, the Rockefeller family, the British Royals, and the Packards (now in methane hydrate to the tune of $300 million) have no interest in high prices by means of regulatory constraint when they are are all heavily invested in methane production.
These folks work through political donations, funding NGO lawsuits, paying for useful university research... Such actions are invisible to you in the industry.
Go ahead, make my day.
And they won't even let us harvest the trees with which to make wooden paddles, therefore we are without a paddle!!!
Whata ya mean "sails?" They've cut off our ag water that we used to grow cotton with for sails in CA, as well!!!
You're funny as heck, but you're fallin behind their curve!!!
He expects you to worship both him and his economically unviable "Hydrogen Highway" for his equally impracticle "Hydrogen Hummer!"
It's past time that we just start ignoring them and their laws.
My weapons are strictly for self-defense ONLY!!! I will follow the law, even if it is an "ass" until we can get it changed politically and judicially!!!
The thought occurred - do the schools have any incentive to car pool?
Any CA educators - or parents - here who would know?
BTW My work is 20 miles from home - car is essential.
Thanks for the ping to an enlightened thread, backhoe and Norm have even revived some of the oldies....got this thread on the calpowercrisis list.....
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Ah... That'sa big 10-4 there muthertrucker! Hev we got us a convoy? Git back!!!
Yeeeeeeeeeehawwwwwwwww! Giddy Up!!! (clip clop, plip plop)
Good deal! I love threads like these!!!
I'd lost track of the "Greyout Davis" graphic- thanks!
LOL.. Thanks!
Basically every screwball enviro law dealing with energy has helped the Opecker Princes and Opecker Thugs.
Wow. Such persuasive alacrity.
Not all of it. Geothermal used to be considered alternative energy. Biomass has considerable promise and we have to do something about overgrown vegetation anyway.
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