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The govenerator Arnie has bill boards in Phoenix. The advertise that CA
wants your business. Ya like any person in AZ wants to move to a state that
is at least 20% more in costs.
Yeah, but we pay that to not live in AZ. I'll mention that in the last
6 months of recording it, the temp has not been below 45 nor above 83.
Generally it's been in the 50s at night and 70s in the day.
My AC usage is nil. How much power does yours use?
Oh, and I can drive 30 minutes to a couple beaches.
Between growing up in Cambridge and living where I do, I've been near
the 2 of the first 3 ArpaNET nodes. I can see the school which
created TCP/IP and thus, the modern Internet. Can see from here where
Sun and Apple started. Around a ridge I can see where XEROX PARC
invented graphical windows systems and where the mouse was invented. I
can also spot where genes are being decoded and the next wave of
scientific innovation is being created.
Most of arizona has phones and electricity by now, right? Oh, and you
guys have the GOP guy who was *competant* enough to be president (but
didn't have the friends to buy it for him like the other guy).
Not counting housing.+ Housing is like 50-70%
more than AZ. My little 1650 sqft home 6 years old would be $400k in some
areas. I paid less than $190k for it here.
Well, 6 years ago, a friend paid $220k for a 2000 sqft home in the SF
East Bay. it's NOW worth over $500k. And he's selling it. How much can
you sell for now?
Gray Davis and the eco-nuts created and perpetuated the mess. I will not be
solved by a few solar panels being installed.
Um, no, that would be Pete Wilson and his buddies who deregulated energy
so that they'd make buckets of money and left our market in easy
position to be gamed.
Davis made a bad situation a worse negotiating in private. Of course he
didn't have secret meetings with his oil and energy buddies like Big
Dick Cheney.
No, Davis was drab, dull and inadequate. He wasn't evil like his
predecessors.
During the rolling black outs I drove through Palm Springs, wind was about
20 mph and there was not one blade turning. NOT ONE. This is one of the
largest wind farms in the US. Someone is making a fortune and I would like
to buy shares.
Don't think those rolling blackouts were due to demand or technical
problems. Believe that it was from companies whose owners are buddies
of the GOP and, directly, Bush and Cheney. Clear and obvious
manipulation. So far the GOP's FERC hasn't seen fit to correct a lot
about that. But poor Kenny-boy Lay might have to sell one of his 27
homes to cover his legal bills. Fortunately Dick is willing to go to
the wall for Kenny and the boys so Kenny shouldn't have to "go f*ck
[him]self."
(and the windmills in Altamont were running just fine then).
[and for the record, those "rolling blackouts" were spread over a state
the size of florida -> Wash DC. My only experience with it was a power
loss at 2:30 PM for 90 minutes at home while I was at work. My partner
was at home; called wondering what she should do (UPS meant that she
only had 2 hrs of power for the WiFi for her laptop - she only knew
the power was out because of the UPS beeping).
In a desperate move, she was forced to go have coffee and cupcakes in
town. Unbearable!
Our friends, a town over, were hit similarly all of twice. In short,
really minor consequences. (for comparison, my mom in New England loses
power for 3-4 days at a time every year or two due to ice storms. This
means cooking by lantern and no TV. Life goes on).]