SoCal cities look for alternative energy, reject coal-fired power (gamble on alternative energy)

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 11/22/06 | AP

[Brilliant]

I hear that hampsters on a treadwell works.

[SFC Chromey]

Elephant in room says: Don't look at Nuclear Energy...EVER!

[CitizenUSA]

Wow! The next California energy crisis is shaping up before our eyes. Wonderful!

[goldstategop]

So Californians want to send their electricity bill through the roof, hug? Good thing I'm leaving this state before those brain-dead idiots inflict economic injury upon me.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[bybybill]

Going to be a GREAT market for wind powered cars

[Mariner]

We'll see how "green" they are when it costs $50/day to run the AC:)

[rottndog]

Anaheim too...Now I am nervous. Anaheim has always had cheap reliable electricity. It a cheaper, cleaner, more reliable source is ALREADY on the market, that's one thing. But to take such a big risk on unproven technology?????

[Youngman442002]

Great..more companies moving out of California....energy to expensive.....

[Brad from Tennessee]

Yeah. They won't drill the oil they have off the coast either.

Mexico could build coal-fired plants and sell the electricity to California.

[Carry_Okie]

1. Cut off nose.
2. Look for nose job.
3. Borrow money for nose job.
4. Doctor heads for Cayman Islands.
5. If the nose job doesn't work, go to 1.

[Thebaddog]

It's going to be Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble driving to work in the Dinomobile. Can you just see the industrial revolution devolving before your eyes?

[TChris]

Apparently, intelligent people aren't leaving Kaleefoaneeah quickly enough for these folks.

[Vinny]

I don't know why I am still amazed of how silly California can be.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Mexico could build coal-fired plants and sell the electricity to California.

WRONGO!! If only it were so. The new law bans the importation of coal-generated power.

[G Larry]

Here's how this works:

They don't buy anything reliable.
They bet on a pig in polk.
End up paying very high spot oil prices.
Then sue the energy companies for gouging.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The enviro-wackos love the desert and don't want any development there. Wait until they discover that solar and wind will have to cover up all their precious desert to make any substantial power contribution.

The same enviro-kooks want to tear down Hetch Hetchy dam to restore the wilderness to its pristine, pre-human condition. Now they are going to discover these low energy-intensity "green" alternatives are going to require blighting thousands of more times the landscape than reservoirs and coal fired plants. I see the day in the not-so-distant future that the greens will want to stop the blight of wind and solar plants. Then what?

[truemiester]

Nukes are the real way to go.

Headlines from California newspapers: "New energy source found! Scientist at the Wicca Research Institute has announced a drive to convert old coal power plants to run on Pixie Dust, states Dr Moon-brothers-mother. It is estimated that it would take 400 Pixies, ground to a fine powder to run a large plant for 2 years. More on this story as it develops."

[southernerwithanattitude]

What about a nuke plant in Mexico? Sounds like an opportunity to me!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I think that would work. How about a whole string of nukes along the border?