[ProtectOurFreedom]

What government has done to our electric power supply is definitely a crime against our citizens. Not many years ago, utilities planned their generating, transmission and distribution capacity to meet customer needs. Those needs were met and capacity margins were sufficient to handle unexpected outages as well as maintenance outages. Today, with nonstop government meddling in the energy business, the systems have insufficient capacity to meet demand and, as a result, we get damn television commercials from our utilities telling us to cut back our power use! Liberals destroy everything they touch and control.

[smoketree]

“we get damn television commercials from our utilities telling us to cut back our power use!”

And they have the nerve to call it “flex your power”.
We’re not flexing anything we’re told to cut back and not use.

In the greatest technological country on the planet we have to cut back on one of the basic utilities because the idiots don’t know how to run anything but entitlements to get votes.

[Randy Larsen]

I would add one more thought to what you said...

The more we conserve, the price grows larger!

Yet there is plenty of elictric power for the new malls and new homes being built!

I got a letter from PG&E, wanting to install a radio controled thermastat in MY home, so THEY could regulate my power usage!

The person that shows up to try it will be shot dead just inside my hallway beneath my newly installed thermostat I just had installed with my new HVAC unit!

$85.00 for 1324 sq. ft!

[Randy Larsen]

I would add one more thought to what you said...

The more we conserve, the price grows larger!

Yet there is plenty of elictric power for the new malls and new homes being built!

I got a letter from PG&E, wanting to install a radio controled thermastat in MY home, so THEY could regulate my power usage!

The person that shows up to try it will be shot dead just inside my hallway beneath my newly installed thermostat I just had installed with my new HVAC unit!

$8500 for 1324 sq. ft!

[SierraWasp]

Our government, that you rightly condemn, has been unduly influenced by malicious Hollywood activists and advocates and not enough of us people have given enough people in government enough back-bone to push back against said malicious influences.

I'm even seeing evidence on this thread of the phobic fear generated in the general public over "The China Syndrome" courtesy of Jane Fonda!!!

It's truly disgusting to see Japan and EVEN FRANCE (and even less advanced third-world countries) move far ahead using our technologically proven resources with complete safety, while we're brow-beaten with "Flex Your Power" utility PSA's!!!

It's all clearly a case of the "terminal stupids!" Two of the biggest monuments to stupidity are right here in the Capitol Region of CA... The abandoned twin cooling towers of Rancho Seco in Elk Grove and the halted Auburn Dam and Reservoir that was 2/3rds finished over 30 years ago!!!