Blackouts

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George Jr is pushing for more energy consumption because lights went out in CA again. Do we have a pending energy problem? Yes. Is George Jr attacking the problem - or just its symptoms. The problem may be too complex for a politican. Symptomatic cures always fit nice into soundbytes. Politicans love soundbytes - intelligence be damned.

Recently I talked with a corporate employee of Southern Cal Gas. She too had the "we need more energy" mentality. But then she learned things about her industry she did not know. Here we are one of the world's largest producers of natural gas - and now we even have to import natural gas! Once we were an exporters of oil. Then when we became the world's third largest producer AND still imported 50% or our needs, then we had the energy crisis. IOW we don't have a shortage of energy. We have a shortage of efficiency.

When Allentown PA becomes a suburb of NYC, then we have a problem - not just with the kid. When someone is too hot in a 75 degree room during the summer, then he has a problem. When it is 60 degree out at night and air conditioners are running, then we have a problem. We are not penguins. We are humans who once found 80 degree summer nights normal and confortable.

Old prices will rise drastically this summer; hopefully returning to normal price levels of between $1.70 and $2.00 per gallon. Maybe even higher prompting some less innovative industries to finally talk to their innovators.

Meanwhile, serious problems have arisen everywhere in the nation almost exactly as in late fifties and 60s US. We have a serious problem of electric transmission as we did back then. In the low growth PA and NY regions, there have been little extensions to the electric distribution system. Not much of a problem there. However that same problem exist in moderate and high growth regions of the country. Some regions have not constructed new plants or transmission lines in the last decade to meet this decades demand. Long Island, CA and New England are on that list. However even worse is the ability to get energy into those regions. Long Island may build an underwater transmission line under the sound. But most regions do not have sufficient transmission facilities to deal with 'contingencies'.

None of this is mentioned by Geroge Jr since he gets his bribes from energy producers (who did Cheney work for?) - not the middle men. The current CA blackouts are not due to generation shortages. They are traceable to MBA mentalities who now play money games with their suppliers - who stall paying the bills playing games of cash flow. When will George Jr attack the real reason that the CA blackout - accountant money games? Those are the people who legally bribe him - notice the silence. Instead he blames enviromentalism for a problem created by too much inefficient usage.

BTW, is there global warming? Greenhouse gases let less heat escape as IR radiation - heating the lower atmosphere. The final nail is in the coffin. Satellite data from IRIS (some 15 years ago) was compared to recent data from IMG. There is a decrease in the earth's IR transmission consistent with the predictions of global warming. Yes, the greenhouse gases are holding the heat in - according the the theory - and now according to experimental evidence.

Again, we don't have an energy shortage - and the resulting global warming. We have an efficiency shortage. We also know that those who advance eneregy efficiency, who create less pollution producing equipment, then also create new jobs for decades to come. During the US 1970 and 1980 recession, Germans scored most electric production equipment jobs (at American expense) because their products were more efficient - less pollution. Japan did same with automobiles. The George Jr solution is Tim Allen's "More Power". Sounds nice but only creates recessions, global warming, and energy crisis in the future. Notice you won't hear any of this from a soundbyte politican such as George Jr. because he knows the country does not read or understand this post.