Posted on 06/28/2009 2:02:40 PM PDT by 4rcane
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/28/2610785.htm?section=justin
There have been more protests about power cuts in Delhi as people in the Indian capital suffer in a continuing heatwave.
Police have broken up demonstrations outside the offices of power distribution companies.
As angry residents wait for this year's delayed monsoon, it is becoming hotter and the disruptions to power supplies are getting bigger.
Most of the residents have been experiencing power outages for between six and 10 hours a day.
With temperatures reaching 45 degrees Celsius, there is an increasing demand for electricity as everyone tries to cool down but the electricity system is unable to cope.
Over the past 24 hours, the protests have grown.
While police have broken up demonstrations outside the offices of power distribution companies, hundreds of people turned up at the home of the state minister deman
Very necessary in Odumma’s march back to the stone age.
113 F and no electricity? Yikes.
Yes, we all need to suffer except him. The biggest liar in the history of the world!!!
What, they expect to keep their thermostats at 72 degrees and we’re, like, OK with that?
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We are watching our destiny. An energy meltdown is marching towards us. The rats have effectively nationalized the energy industry. Shortages, price spikes, and rationing will be the result. California in the early 2000s provided a good window into our future. The recent GW bill was the epitome of everything wrong with nationalization of the vital energy sector.
The monsoon will give them a break pretty soon. Then the streets will flood, people will drown, but the heat wave will end.
Richard Orange 23.06.09
The long, sweltering wait for this year's monsoon rains has brought a stream of anguished moans over email, Facebook and the like. It's more than two weeks late in the city, the latest it has been for about 20 years.
But for Mumbai's businessmen, the delay means more than just another week escaping hundred-degree humidity in air-conditioned rooms.
For all its IT parks, billionaires, and clever feats of low-cost engineering, India's economy is still agricultural.
Citigroup's chief India economist Rohini Malkani estimates that a bad monsoon (and if rains don't come this week, that's what it looks like) would cost the country about one percentage point of gross domestic product growth.
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I imagine after cap and trade and Obama economics those who can still afford electricity will only be the super rich and Democat Party elite. Same with Health Care or SUV’s only the Elite enlightend Democrat Party elites will be allowed to have these luxuries.
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