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What is news is simple.

Thanks to the envirals, Moonbeam and his able assistant, Igor Davis (now our inept governor), we stopped building new power plants during Moonbeam's back to the 1800's Era of Limits, when he was our inept governor.

In the meantime, the Rats have opened the immigration doors and the illegal alien doors to get more voters.

Each new immigrant and each new illegal alien uses electricity directly and indirectly the minute they come into California.

So the supply curve/capability has gone down each day/week/month while the Demand Curve has increased each day/week/month/year since Moonbeam and his Birkenstocks played at being our governor.

In 2000, this started to catch up, and California had a lot of rolling blackouts. In early 2001, it became really severe with demand outstripping the supply curve.

It was unseasonably cool last summer that reduced demand.

The other demand reducer was the failure of many businesses, the reduction of business hours and many businesses leaving California in 2001. Each business that left or operated on less hours meant less demand for electricity in last summer's cooler than normal temps.

Now, we are have some normal and some record highs. We have really no more power production, and the demand curve is overwhelming the suppply capability.

If we didn't import electricity each day from the Pacific NW and Arizona, we would be like a third world country and forced to have a lot of blackouts from noon to 6 pm each day.

This is very serious and very new worthy!

This is what is happening and why this is news. Blackouts are very serious and can kill people or hurt them. Businesses in Kali's recession can be severely hurt.

This is very serious and very new worthy!

You are correct and I do agree with everything you say, however the point I was making was that the hot weather is not the news, but the crazy way the democRATS have managed power in this state.

Add to this, the way that deregulation was handled. The original proposal was to begin deregulation small by deregulating businesses first and when that was successful, move on to homes. The state in it's infinite wisdom ignored the recommendations and deregulated everybody, but threw in the caveat that power companies could not buy power on contract, but only on the spot market and then put a cap on what consumers could be charged.. Of course, that caused power costs to go up exponentially. It should be noted that there have been no rolling greyouts since PG&E got it's price hike.

I live in Lodi where we have our own power company which has plenty of power and has always obtained long term contracts to tide us over the high peak months. During the rolling greyouts, the Lodi Power Company manager refused to shut down power to the people of Lodi when ordered to, because we were never deregulated and had planned ahead.

I work for a company that allowed the power company to shut the manufacturing plant down in a power emergency. There were so many Greyouts that our plant and several other removed themselves from this program because the cheaper cost of electricy was no longer balanced out by the costs of lost productivity. In this way California really hurt their ability to manage hot spells also.