Harry, Re: <Conservation. A good start but, conservation by itself won't solve the problem. We need all three, an aggressive conservation plan as well as drilling and new plants.>
The entire post was *EXCELLENT* -- at least from my point of view.
I found it interesting that Scumbria, the conservationist, admitted to $300/month(Off the top of my head) heating for 1KF^^2 house -- 'cause he was just renting & it didn't much make sense to fix it or rent someplace else. And it clearly doesn't make sense to the landlord to fix the house so long as *DOPES* will rent it for the same price without insulation.
(IMO) -- We need Nuclear in a big way. We need coal in the right way. And we need Conservation to the point of near confiscatory taxes for excessive usages, and I have *NO IDEA* how to define excessive usage.
Re: Excessive Usage:
Ted was talking about watering the lawn, and how 'WE' must conserve -- You could see who was wasting water 'cause their lawns were green. And all that *STUFF* about 60 posts ago.
I've ~ 4 acres in central NJ. Deep well puts water about 6' down(damn near artesian). $6,500 pump gives me over 2,000 GPH @ 50 PSI. I put it in to keep the property looking OK. Summer before last the *FUZZ* got me for watering the lawn out of my own well 'cause the Governor(Ms. Whitman -- now of EPA) had declared a water emergency. I lost two major trees & have three more really sick ones 'cause of that sillyness. It turns out you can water your lawn as long as it doesn't need it.
In the end, all those who say that CA bought this upon itself, had better wake up and smell the coffee. All ...
YEP, it's coming here, to your local Electircal Outlet(115 Volt like you plug your computer into.)
We'll hear about the CA. energy problem for another couple of weeks, then nothing 'till July. Then, Imo, It's going to come out of the woodwork for real.
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