You and I know what the real story is. Most of the Kalifornians do not. It takes these hot spells and blackouts to get the real story to them.
Your comment here is a real reality check: 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.
How many Californian companies have had their profits and maybe their ability to survive, endangered by the enviro whackos/libs and Gray Davis with this lack of electricity to meet their and our demands?
So true. The companies that I am associated with are Grower Cooperative, so they are unlikely to go anywhere, however most are developeing their own sources of power. Is it any wonder that the Central Valley is where conservatism reigns in California?