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May 29, 2008 at 2:10 PM #213753May 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM #213605
Borat
ParticipantFinally, remember the power shortages a few years ago in California? With no new power plants in this state in several decades, what do you think is going to happen if a few million people start plugging their cars into the power grid?
Good point, they’d have no choice but to raise electricity prices and suddenly those old gasoline cars might start looking attractive again. And of course all of that electricity comes from burning oil and coal anyway. It’s good that people are thinking about the problems, but it doesn’t look like there are any easy answers. Most people are eventually going to have to drive less, fly less, consume less, and live in smaller places. Not necessarily bad things.
BTW, the power shortages in California had nothing to do with actual plant capacity and everything to do with criminal market manipulation by The Smartest Guys In The Room. Notice how the outages disappeared as suddenly as they appeared after Enron went belly-up — no new generating plants required.
May 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM #213683Borat
ParticipantFinally, remember the power shortages a few years ago in California? With no new power plants in this state in several decades, what do you think is going to happen if a few million people start plugging their cars into the power grid?
Good point, they’d have no choice but to raise electricity prices and suddenly those old gasoline cars might start looking attractive again. And of course all of that electricity comes from burning oil and coal anyway. It’s good that people are thinking about the problems, but it doesn’t look like there are any easy answers. Most people are eventually going to have to drive less, fly less, consume less, and live in smaller places. Not necessarily bad things.
BTW, the power shortages in California had nothing to do with actual plant capacity and everything to do with criminal market manipulation by The Smartest Guys In The Room. Notice how the outages disappeared as suddenly as they appeared after Enron went belly-up — no new generating plants required.
May 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM #213709Borat
ParticipantFinally, remember the power shortages a few years ago in California? With no new power plants in this state in several decades, what do you think is going to happen if a few million people start plugging their cars into the power grid?
Good point, they’d have no choice but to raise electricity prices and suddenly those old gasoline cars might start looking attractive again. And of course all of that electricity comes from burning oil and coal anyway. It’s good that people are thinking about the problems, but it doesn’t look like there are any easy answers. Most people are eventually going to have to drive less, fly less, consume less, and live in smaller places. Not necessarily bad things.
BTW, the power shortages in California had nothing to do with actual plant capacity and everything to do with criminal market manipulation by The Smartest Guys In The Room. Notice how the outages disappeared as suddenly as they appeared after Enron went belly-up — no new generating plants required.
May 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM #213734Borat
ParticipantFinally, remember the power shortages a few years ago in California? With no new power plants in this state in several decades, what do you think is going to happen if a few million people start plugging their cars into the power grid?
Good point, they’d have no choice but to raise electricity prices and suddenly those old gasoline cars might start looking attractive again. And of course all of that electricity comes from burning oil and coal anyway. It’s good that people are thinking about the problems, but it doesn’t look like there are any easy answers. Most people are eventually going to have to drive less, fly less, consume less, and live in smaller places. Not necessarily bad things.
BTW, the power shortages in California had nothing to do with actual plant capacity and everything to do with criminal market manipulation by The Smartest Guys In The Room. Notice how the outages disappeared as suddenly as they appeared after Enron went belly-up — no new generating plants required.
May 29, 2008 at 2:38 PM #213763Borat
ParticipantFinally, remember the power shortages a few years ago in California? With no new power plants in this state in several decades, what do you think is going to happen if a few million people start plugging their cars into the power grid?
Good point, they’d have no choice but to raise electricity prices and suddenly those old gasoline cars might start looking attractive again. And of course all of that electricity comes from burning oil and coal anyway. It’s good that people are thinking about the problems, but it doesn’t look like there are any easy answers. Most people are eventually going to have to drive less, fly less, consume less, and live in smaller places. Not necessarily bad things.
BTW, the power shortages in California had nothing to do with actual plant capacity and everything to do with criminal market manipulation by The Smartest Guys In The Room. Notice how the outages disappeared as suddenly as they appeared after Enron went belly-up — no new generating plants required.
May 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM #213615meadandale
ParticipantThe outages haven’t disappeared. They just aren’t as frequent. There is still an electricity generating shortage at capacity in this state which becomes apparent everytime we get a heat wave in the middle of the summer and public officials start imploring people to turn off their AC’s and to avoid running the dishwasher or washer/dryer in the middle of the day.
May 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM #213692meadandale
ParticipantThe outages haven’t disappeared. They just aren’t as frequent. There is still an electricity generating shortage at capacity in this state which becomes apparent everytime we get a heat wave in the middle of the summer and public officials start imploring people to turn off their AC’s and to avoid running the dishwasher or washer/dryer in the middle of the day.
May 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM #213719meadandale
ParticipantThe outages haven’t disappeared. They just aren’t as frequent. There is still an electricity generating shortage at capacity in this state which becomes apparent everytime we get a heat wave in the middle of the summer and public officials start imploring people to turn off their AC’s and to avoid running the dishwasher or washer/dryer in the middle of the day.
May 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM #213743meadandale
ParticipantThe outages haven’t disappeared. They just aren’t as frequent. There is still an electricity generating shortage at capacity in this state which becomes apparent everytime we get a heat wave in the middle of the summer and public officials start imploring people to turn off their AC’s and to avoid running the dishwasher or washer/dryer in the middle of the day.
May 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM #213771meadandale
ParticipantThe outages haven’t disappeared. They just aren’t as frequent. There is still an electricity generating shortage at capacity in this state which becomes apparent everytime we get a heat wave in the middle of the summer and public officials start imploring people to turn off their AC’s and to avoid running the dishwasher or washer/dryer in the middle of the day.
May 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM #213620jpinpb
ParticipantTrojan4Life – The Vespa I have now is a 1961. I used to have a 2006 LX 150. It’s still made out of metal, but there are a few plastic pieces, but for the most part Vespas are still made out of metal.
May 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM #213698jpinpb
ParticipantTrojan4Life – The Vespa I have now is a 1961. I used to have a 2006 LX 150. It’s still made out of metal, but there are a few plastic pieces, but for the most part Vespas are still made out of metal.
May 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM #213724jpinpb
ParticipantTrojan4Life – The Vespa I have now is a 1961. I used to have a 2006 LX 150. It’s still made out of metal, but there are a few plastic pieces, but for the most part Vespas are still made out of metal.
May 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM #213749jpinpb
ParticipantTrojan4Life – The Vespa I have now is a 1961. I used to have a 2006 LX 150. It’s still made out of metal, but there are a few plastic pieces, but for the most part Vespas are still made out of metal.
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