Posted on 07/20/2006 8:21:10 AM PDT by calcowgirl
less water
less electricity
excellent idea
Once drained it will be a beautiful mud bowl.
Yeah, that is all that California needs is less water. With the hoards of illegals and others flooding into the state, the population growth is astounding. Mainly illegals and other immigrants.
The socialist morons running our state continue to flirt with disasterous ideas.
Stupid ain't fixable.
Yep, a mud bowl, and will take over a 100 years to have a descent forrest canopy...at a 10 billion dollar cost in a state already strapped with deficits. Sounds like a enviro whackos dream scenario.LOL!
California has way too much influence on the country. Cutting off their air supply isn't an option, but cutting off the water and power is a good alternate.
Reopen the Toluomne!
The last enviowacko report I heard from CA was that a power shortage had closed all the socal airports. So, lets cut back on hydro, say the inmates in the assylum.
HETCH-HETCHY.
Los Angeles Times. Oct 15, 1913. p. II4
It is twelve years since engineers and thoughtful citizens in San Francisco realized that its water supply was inadequate. Comprehensive surveys were made from Eel River in the north to the Tuolumne River in the south. As a result the Tuolumne River, its source in the Hetch-Hetchy Valley, draining 1501 square miles of mountains, with an annual rainfall of from twenty to fifty inches and a mean annual run-off of twenty-four inches or nearly 2,000,000 acre feet, was selected.Hetch-Hetchy Valley is a gorge in the Yosemite National Park, thirty miles from Yosemite Valley proper. The watershed is composed wholly of granite mountains on which there is a heavy snowfall every winter. It is proposed to convert the valley into a magnificent lake, and store the water from the melting snows which now run off in torrential floods each year, doing good to no one and at times causing damage.
It wasn't a power shortage. A car took out a power line and then they had 2 generators fail.
However, if I were Schwartz., I'd tell the the lefties you'd trade them one resevoir for one nuke plant, because the bay area needs power one way or the other.
Then stand back and watch their heads explode.
You got that right!
As a California taxpayer..........(I don't live there, I was just unfortunate enough to be dumb enough to sell a product there) I find it amazing the lengths the state dumbocrats will go thru to collect every last dime from any business in the United States who they feel they can extort money from, and then the amazing ways they can find to p*ss it away.
The day this sucker slides into the Pacific, I will declare a holiday at our business. Free drinks for all!
Not to mention an opportunity to 'invest' $3 - $10 billion (this estimate would probably double or triple by the time it was done, as most gov't est do).
You people really have a one track mind.
Can't even go 5 replies before someone tries to bring illegal immigration into the thread.
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It is ALL about state money. Tax and spend, the monies WASTED AND THROW AWAY on illegals is the largest single unjustified expenditure in the state. THAT is why it is brought up, because the perverse nature of it, along with the socialist nature of the liberals that everything is solved WITH MORE TAXATION, not responsible spending OR responsible government.
Aw geez. What are you, Immigration Thread Police? lol
Illegals do consume resources and significant amounts in this state, they also trample a lot of sensitive desert habitat along the border.. sorry to go off topic. ;-)
Oh, they won't? Too bad. Hetch Hetchy was, by all reports, as spectacular as Yosemite. That'd be a nice legacy to leave for our children if the enviros would only join the 21st century.
He must have a boatload of splinters in his crotch, considering how much time he spends straddling fences.
ROFL!!! :-)
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