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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 01:07 PM
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How the Power Grid Works
How the Power Grid Works
1. Electricity, in thousands of megawatts, is generated at Regional Power Plants.

2. Campaign contributions, in millions of dollars, are forwarded from energy company executives to lawmakers.

3. Executives meet secretly with Dick Cheney, dictate plan to deregulate energy industry.

4. Executives of deregulated market cut work force, skip maintenance, manipulate system they designed to rob state and county governments.

5. Blackouts are delivered from local substations directly to consumers.


APOLOGY
Due to last week’s blackout, a story about the tremendous success of deregulation of the power industry never ran. We will try to run it again in the near future.

ODDS AND ENDS


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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 01:15 PM
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1. Step Four (A)
Continue adding new private and commercial/manufacturing customers to existing systems without adding capacity so that frequent overloads/blackouts occur when transformers melt down, but then claim it was lightening striking the transformers, amazingly when the weather is perfectly clear and cloudless, to avoid liability.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-03 01:18 PM
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2. Ahhhhhhhh the Clark Griswold approach
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