WERE THERE BLACKOUTS IN CALIFORNIA?
So...after all that doom and gloom we caught from the media--you know, evil power corporations scheming to keep innocent Californians in the dark and whatnot--did the state suffer any blackouts this summer, like the "experts" and class-warfare politicians were predicting?
Nope. Not a single one, according to The Washington Times. No part of California has experienced a single second of power outage. Of course, there have been the usual problems, like wind damage to power lines and the occasional short-circuit...but as for systematic outages, there were none.
Compare that to the prediction the California Independent System Operator (the entity that wins the state's power grid) made back in April. They said Californians would have to suffer through at least 34 days of rolling blackouts. The North American Electric Reliability Council said there would be 260 hours of blackouts.
But Californians managed to heed the warnings and conserve energy. They were also helped by cooler-than-normal summer temperatures.
All of which means there's little to be gained from Gray Davis' strategy of blaming private power companies instead of his state's faulty energy policies. If Davis thought he was going to ride the issue to another term as California's governor, he was wrong. He can't ratchet up the rhetoric if there's no problem in sight.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010904-160594.htm
So...after all that doom and gloom we caught from the media--you know, evil power corporations scheming to keep innocent Californians in the dark and whatnot--did the state suffer any blackouts this summer, like the "experts" and class-warfare politicians were predicting?
Nope. Not a single one, according to The Washington Times. No part of California has experienced a single second of power outage. Of course, there have been the usual problems, like wind damage to power lines and the occasional short-circuit...but as for systematic outages, there were none.
Compare that to the prediction the California Independent System Operator (the entity that wins the state's power grid) made back in April. They said Californians would have to suffer through at least 34 days of rolling blackouts. The North American Electric Reliability Council said there would be 260 hours of blackouts.
But Californians managed to heed the warnings and conserve energy. They were also helped by cooler-than-normal summer temperatures.
All of which means there's little to be gained from Gray Davis' strategy of blaming private power companies instead of his state's faulty energy policies. If Davis thought he was going to ride the issue to another term as California's governor, he was wrong. He can't ratchet up the rhetoric if there's no problem in sight.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010904-160594.htm
