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If CA wants to wear NIMBY "T' Shirts, let them take the consequences too.
You have to feel for California, paying more into the system than they get back, then having this cut while they have to pay for all the poorer "conservative" states that get grants.
There is no justification for any intrastate project to be funded by the other 49 states.
I don't take their money...
Only because they import vast amounts of power from other states. California is incapable of meeting their own demand without imports.http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,252076.html
Actually, you are wrong. The rolling blackouts of recent California history were a result of market manipulation by the late unlamented Enron, not an inherent problem with generating capacity or the grid.
@The_Reader_David for those of us that are ignorant of the situation, could you explain that. And is it the same issue that arizona was having around the same time?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/04/us/tapes-show-enron-arranged-plant-shutdown.html?_r=0Enron made a bad situation worse. But California was already too tight in available capacity. If they had been more like Texas in generating capacity as they started the deregulation, the market would have been too large is spare capacity to effectively manipulate.Enron was at fault. Enron made it worse. But California regulations and limitations set up their initial plan for deregulation to fail. A lot of additional capacity got built following that time, mostly Nat Gas peaker units to handle upset conditions. I was doing NatGas pipeline work in the area at that time to help serve the fast growing demand by those peaker units.