[_Jim]

And do you realize how little some areas produce?????

Simplistic view. Means nothing.

Most of the NE imports from Canada, California sucks from the North West and Mid West.

A statement of the obvious - what's your point?

THE REASON the power is IMPORTED fom those areas is BECAUSE that is HYDRO POER and VERY LOW in cost.

Fourth, require local grids produce no less than 70% of their demand locally.

You will solve nothing ...

[taxcontrol]

And do you realize how little some areas produce?????
Simplistic view. Means nothing.


So let me get this straight. The FACT that millions of people in the US MUST import substantial portions of the demand from other locations "means nothing"????. Perhaps you have forgotten that moving that much power requires transmission lines that run for hundreds of MILES? That these lines can and sometimes are overloaded and thus fail, because the demand is too high? That these lines are subject to all kinds of outages and failures?



THE REASON the power is IMPORTED fom those areas is BECAUSE that is HYDRO POER and VERY LOW in cost.

NO - the REASON that power is imported is because the local power production can not meet the demand.



Fourth, require local grids produce no less than 70% of their demand locally.

You will solve nothing ...

What it will do is require more local production of power and REDUCE dependance on these overly large and unduly complex trans-state power grids.