CK,
I think sometimes your thinking is too linear.
I think you know me better than that.
When I see your comment above, I don't think of only "utilities". I think, if commercial customers are "non-priority" and a business or plant is shut down for an extended period of time ... what are the ramifications??? You know - the domino bit?
The issue will be who makes these decisions. As for extended period of time, that would only occur if we find that our generating capacity is drastically reduced for that same period of time. If that is the case, I believe it is safe to assume gov't authorities will step in and declare temporary states of emergency in the most impacted areas and they will make the decisions as to which business gets power and for how long.
When I was in Panama back in '94, one of the towns we operated in only had power for 12 hours a day. The rest of the time all power was apparently being directed towards water pumps to fill up the community water tank. They were able to survive, but not to thrive.
They simply adapted.
Now if we reflect on what occurred in New Zealand last year, those folks went without power for what, 6 weeks? And that was in their leading business district, the center of New Zealand's financial and economic powerbase. They survived, fixed it and have moved on.
CK, you know me and you know my attitude. We can spend endless hours postulating the end of the world, or how a complete failure of the just-in-time system can result in utter chaos.
But you know what? I'm more interested in finding out how to fix it, work around it, and not permit these disruptions from drastically altering my life. I want to think about solutions and not about the worst case scenario that our frightened imaginations can conjure up.
It is very difficult to debate with someone who accepts nothing but the worst care scenario. If a person's entire argument centers around disaster and rules out anything less than that possibility, there really isn't much to debate, is there?
We can all basically run to hills, from our fears, and hold our lives hostage to the still unknown consequences of our own technological follies.
Regards,
Ron
As for "Houstonominium", I'm going to need some help on pronunciation.<VBG> |
