System's Crash Was Predicted

Washington Post ^ | 8/15/03 | Peter Behr

[kattracks]

The warning from David Cook, general counsel for the nation's electric reliability organization, was stark: "The question is not whether, but when, the next major failure of the grid will occur."

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From the article.

For two years, the Bush administration and leaders of congressional energy committee have called for new legislation to help expand the transmission system, but a major energy bill has yet to get through Congress.

[GailA]

The "greens" have a lot to answer for. You can lay a lot of the blame for this at their feet.

[The Mayor]

what do the dems want that is holding it up ?

Probably nothing, just holding things up so people like Hitlery can blame Bush..

[Labyrinthos]

For two years, the Bush administration and leaders of congressional energy committee have called for new legislation to help expand the transmission system, but a major energy bill has yet to get through Congress.

Before I jump all over the evil RATS, what else was tacked to the energy bill? Knowing the way Congress operates, the bill probably included $10 million to study moose farts, $21 million for the construction of an ice cream museum, and a whopping $100 million for another highway and bridge to nowhere in West Virgina.

[nowings]

I predict there will be another act of terrorism.
I predict GW will win another term.
I predict it will get to 100' in NYC this year.

If Im wrong will anyone remember my predictions??

Predictions are like a__holes --everyone's got one.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

the bill probably included $10 million to study moose farts, $21 million for the construction of an ice cream museum, and a whopping $100 million for another highway and bridge to nowhere in West Virgina.

And you can be sure that the evil Enron advised VP Cheney in those secret meetings and planned to actually PROFIT (!!!) from any adding of transmission lines to the NE grid(s). How dare they?!

[kattracks]

Could be, but this news should counter the attacks on President Bush, which will appear as sure as the sun rises in the east.

Of course, most of the lamestrem media will see fit to omit this from any of their "balanced" reports.

[MJY1288]

This is an opportunity for President Bush to take a page out of the RAT handbook and use this electrical grid failure like a big wooden club and relentlessly beat the democrats over the head with it

[camle]

it's a matter of when not if:

the next war
the next recession
the next major blackout
the next major airplane crash
the next major train derailment
the next chemical spill


see? These things I hereby predict. when they occur please remember that I was the prophet.

[MJY1288]

"And you can be sure that the evil Enron advised VP Cheney in those secret meetings and planned to actually PROFIT (!!!) from any adding of transmission lines to the NE grid(s). How dare they?!"

I heard a seminar caller on C_Span say exactly that :-) (No Kidding)

[VRWCmember]

Has hillary asked "What did Bush know and when did he know it" yet?

[secret garden]

Of course they'll be coming out of the woodwork, blaming Bush or Cheney or Israel for this.

[camle]

more predictions:

a political assasination
a major hate crime
a trial of the century
a major storm
an earthquake in CA, Turkey and central america (not necessarily the same time)
a major forest fire
a major smuggling operation is apprehended
a politician says something dumb
a journalist is killed on assignment

[Momaw Nadon]

I think Nostradamus predicted this blackout, but I don't remember which quatrain.

[blackangus]

I expect my democrat friends to say "it's all Bush's fault!!!"
What else is new.

[ChefKeith]

the bill probably included $10 million to study moose farts,

Have those Moose been eating cheese?

And even more important...whose sister was it that got bit by a moose?

[randita]

Was Ohio the only red state that suffered power outages? Seems to me mostly "blue" states largely populated and governed by Democrats were affected. When was the last time there was a power outage in Texas? Bush can lay this one right at the feet of the NIMBY and environut crowds.

[Labyrinthos]

And you can be sure that the evil Enron advised VP Cheney in those secret meetings and planned to actually PROFIT (!!!) from any adding of transmission lines to the NE grid(s). How dare they?!

Someone actually suggested that to me last night at the local pub.

[pageonetoo]

but, West Virginia needs all those bridges (named after their benefactor, Sen. "sheets" BYRD)! And don't forget the community centers. i moved here from NC, and remember seeing Congressman Charlie Rose's name everywhere...your tax dollars at work...instant monuments!
We have nowhere to go, but we can get there! We have nothing to do, but we have somewhere to do it (even a million dollar outhouse in the Rockies!
Dammit, our kids can't read the Ten Commandments, but the g'umt will give them condoms, and midnight basketball !

[verity]

"We have met the enemy and they are us" - POGO