Did Obama endorse rolling blackouts?

Hot Air ^ | August 5, 2008 | Ed Morrissey

[Delacon]

Please, please, please Obama, keep showing people how way in over your head that you are.

[TomGuy]

I will call on businesses, government, and the American people to meet the goal of reducing our demand for electricity 15% by the end of the next decade. This is by far the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to reduce our energy consumption

In the late 70s I lived in an area that was served by a rural water district. We had been in a dought for months. Various cities and water districts called for users to cut down on their water usage.

We did.

Several months later, after the dought ended, the city utilities and water districts were crying to the Public Service Commission to allow them to raise rates -- because people cut back their usage so much during the dought that the cities/water districts lost allot of money.

So, we got screwed -- again.

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[Grampa Dave]

Bumping and pinging myself

[Delacon]

I remember that same thing happening in PA back in the early 80s. We successfully cut back on electricity by employing simple conservation methods(then unique) like turning off lights when not in the room and setting the thermostat a little higher. ConEd(I think it was ConEd at the time) turned around, and without batting an eye, stated that they had to raise rates because not enough money was coming in.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Obama will counter this by pointing out that “blackout” is a racist term.

[meyer]

Youngstown already cut their power usage - by closing nearly all the steel mills (no thanks to Oblammo’s extreme environazi friends). If the government wants job creation, they’ll need to get out of the way and let private industry flourish as they did in the ‘40’s through the 60’s.

[Nick Danger]

[Delacon]

“Obama will counter this by pointing out that “blackout” is a racist term.”

Obama will call it racist because someone had the audacity to criticize a black man.

[Typical_Whitey]

Typical liberal stand by for the ration cards.... Only the Rich elites will have the resources to afford air conditioning in the summer and warm heat in the winter the rest of us commoners well if we want gas we will be told to “EAT BEANS”

[ridesthemiles]

I still have a bumper sticker on my truck that says “Blackouts 200x” Davis Out 200x”.
Too hot to go verify the dates, but I think it was 2001 and 2002.

[mylife]

Hey Barama. The people in Ytown are already down to hard cheese.

What a doofus this guy is.

[af_vet_rr]

Thank God Texas has its own powergrid.

[Grampa Dave]

Obie Oreo, the really junior $inator from Illinois. drives up with his training wheels to lecture us on economics and his insanity re the supply and demand of oil or Obie Econ 101:

Obama on Friday called for a $1,000 "emergency" rebate to consumers to offset soaring energy costs amid fresh signs of a struggling economy with the nation's unemployment rate climbing to a four-year high.

Below is a picture of the new Obamination $. Married couples will get $1000 of these puppies in the mail soon. Spend them quickly as gas will go up from $4+/gallon to $5-6 per gallon to pay for the new Obamination emergency bills.

[Tamar1973]

Obama really does want to make the USA into a Third World country like North Korea. What a putz. I can’t believe he’s thisclose to becoming POTUS?!?!?

[weegee]

Rolling blackouts today, electric cars and no AC in your home tomorrow.

[omega4179]

will call on businesses, government, and the American people to meet the goal of reducing our demand for electricity 15% by the end of the next decade.

The idiots platform is to reduce economic growth and the idiots that will vote for him don’t understand he is the anti American dream candidate.

[mvpel]

Apparently simple math escapes Obama: if demand per capita goes down 3%, and the population goes up 5%, then total demand goes up 1.85%.

In San Jose, California, the NIMBYs and envirowackos blocked the Coyote Point power plant for years until the situation became so untenable with population growth and electricity supply limits that it was either build the power plant or switch to whale oil.