17 thoughts on “Prepare To Be Shocked”

  1. They’re the product of CA schools which have been brainwashing kids for at least three decades.

  2. AZ may get its wish about the power to CA. You know the boards won’t let utilities pass those costs on right away. They will try to go upstream to get their money back and that power may be priced right for some where else. CA will be stuck producing more expensive power locally.

  3. Sadly, Texas has done more to implement “green” power than California. I say sadly, because California doesn’t understand why. Moreover, Texas is the only one of the contiguous 48 states that really goes it alone in energy.

  4. California still has an economy? I thought everything was consumed by debt service and creeping socialist policies.

  5. I fully support green power *IF* it’s cost effective.

    Hydro power is “green”, and is cost effective. Thus, I have no problems with it in most cases.

    In SOME applications, solar power is cost-effective. Solar powered hot water heaters work great in Phoenix, for example. When i lived down there, I put one in based on a simple cost-benefit analysis, and it would have paid off even without the subsidies. That may not be true in all instances, but for me, based on what it cost me to put it in (I did the work myself) it made economic sense.

    Windmills? Sure, I support them *IF* they can produce power at roughly the same rate as an oil-fired plant, WITHOUT subsidies and tax breaks. I’d even go slightly higher, due to the economic benefits of replacing oil that’s purchased overseas. However, I am not aware of any windmill in existence that can meet those criteria.

    Green power? Sure, bring it on, *IF* it’s cost effective. Not until. Personally, I hope it will be one day, because for geopolitical and economic reasons I’d love to see this country stop importing oil.

    Green jobs? Sure, green power in most forms creates green jobs, at a ratio of roughly two jobs destroyed for every one created. (Spain and Denmark being glaring examples). That’s a great benifit, if you seek to increase unemplyment.

    Speaking as a resident of Arizona, I fully support California’s carbon cap idiocy. Why? Because guess where a lot of wealthy Californians and their business are moving to: Arizona.

    I did hear that, come November, Californians will be voting on a delay of most of that nutty carbon limit. If they have any sense, they’ll do so, but I’m not counting on it. (a delay would be an open acknowledgment that the law is bad for the economy).

  6. Then there was that PBS NOVA documentary about the California go-it-alone-on-carbon, where they showed an animation of a high speed passenger train zipping through a landscape dotted with spinning windmills, presumably providing the electric power to run the train.

    I guess ground transportation will be like the ol’ clipper ships. “So ya wanna go to San-Fran t’day? Looks like there ain’t much in the way of wind t’day. Ya can check the weather report, but ya might wanna check back on Monday when the forecast is fer enough wind to run the trains.”

  7. Moreover, Texas is the only one of the contiguous 48 states that really goes it alone in energy.

    Washington, Oregon, and North Dakota come to mind.

  8. I support windmills over the Gulf of Mexico. There’s plenty of breeze, the turbines of death will cull the seagull population, and sharks will take care of avian cleanup.

  9. Washington, Oregon, and North Dakota have their own regulated power grid? I didn’t know that.

  10. Alan, I agree. I have always thought that Corpus Christi in particular could go big on wind power very easily…anyone who has ever been there wonders why Chicago is called the Windy City.

  11. We have lots of wind generators on the Columbia gorge, mostly paid for by Oregon tax payers and rate payers. They are not cost competitive without the subsidies. Oregon is following California off the cliff with green and socialist bogosity. Fortunately, Washington state is not. I live in the Portland area, but on the Washington state side.

  12. Is there no power to be had from ocean thermal?

    Alan, are you the guy that came up with the solution for dolphins in tuna nets… eat dolphins?

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