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a collection of amusing,
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maybe even useful
information
| Now, About That
Electricity Mess in California... |
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YOUR OWN Electricity Generator HERE! |
| Freedom
Keys a collection of amusing, fascinating, insightful, or maybe even useful information |
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Some well-meaning but ignorant people (and some well-informed, but delibertately
lying demagogues) are saying it's due to "deregulation." But wait
a minute. The state government mandated where and how power companies
must buy power at wholesale. And forced them to sell their power-generating
facilities. And delayed and prevented construction of new power plants.
And they NEVER removed the ban on competition within THE SAME GEOGRAPHICAL
AREA. And they NEVER removed their caps on RETAIL prices. And
more. You call ALL THAT "deregulation"??? Huh??? Give
me a break!
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"One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually
every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved
disastrous before, time and again." -- Dr.
Thomas Sowell
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1906 CALIFORNIA TRIES TO IGNORE WHAT HISTORY TEACHES US ABOUT PRICE CAPS HERE. |
| "Since the 2001 electricity crisis, two California utilities have become insolvent, the state has entered long-term contracts to buy electricity at exorbitant rates and the electricity trading industry has gone into near collapse ... [due to] conflicting policy directions being pursued for the industry at the state and federal levels." HERE |
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"To err is human, but it takes a politician to really screw things up." -- Old American Adage |
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| *Enron, of course, is exactly the kind corporation which could not exist in pure capitalism. As a creature, in effect, of politicians, it was deliberately converted from a small pipeline company into an international conglomerate by conniving scoundrels who designed it from the beginning to use the power of their politician-friends to give it government contracts, subsidies, monopoly powers, and favorable regulations to force prospective customers to do business with them, essentially at gunpoint. This, of course, is fascism, not capitalism, and what you get more and more of when you work to transform what was once the rule of clear-cut law into the rule of men (especially hair-splitting judges and lawyers). |
| "Environmental crusaders have spent the past 30 years influencing ignorant, unprincipled or gullible politicians to pass new laws and create new agencies that affect everything from oil, to natural gas, to nuclear power, to electricity. The net result is that manacles have effectively been slapped around the ankles of power suppliers, creating a huge disincentive for them to construct any new (and what certainly would be more energy efficient) power plants." -- Wayne Dunn |
Where did you learn your economics? From network news anchor robots?
Headline writers working for hack newspaper editors? Well, learn
this fast: Price controls cause shortages; government-mandated price
ceilings inspire consumers to buy more; they take away efficient producers'
incentives to produce more, they make marginal producers go out of business,
they even give producers incentives to produce less, and they scare away
anyone
who might have invested in new production facilities
(duh). Read
a few concise explanations of price controls HERE.
SOOOoooo... Thanks
for the blackouts,
stupid
price-controllers and fanatic tree-huggers!
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Yup: Government is THE PROBLEM, NOT the solution. "This government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way." -- Henry David Thoreau in his essay, "Civil Disobedience" "Giving money and power to the government is like giving car keys and whisky to teenage boys." -- P. J. O'Rourke |
| "It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making
decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people
who pay no price for being wrong." -- Thomas Sowell
"Everything the government touches turns to crap." -- Ringo Starr "Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant."-- Harry Browne "Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it." -- Ann Coulter |
See:
The
REAL
Causes of the Northeast Blackout
HERE.
Isn't
it time YOUR company and community got immunity from politicians with
your
own power generating station?
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