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From: Howard Rothenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 10:40 PM
Subject: [piml] Government Causes California Energy Crisis
>
> "We'd rather have brown-outs than people-outs!"
>
> That line was delivered about 20 years ago by Tom Hayden, who at the
time was
> Jane Fonda's husband and a member of the California Legislature,
representing
> the "People's Republic of Santa Monica."
>
> Though his consituents were city people, they kept him in Sacramento to
spout
> his Luddite, back-to-the-land politics until he was removed from
office by
> term limits. He and his cronies kept power plants from being built,
while the
> population of their state climbed, all the while spouting lines such as
that,
> to the delight of the environmentalists.
>
> Now those short-sighted legislators are looking at those
never-really-expected
> brown-outs, and in true collectivist fashion, they are demanding that
we in
> the rest of the West give them OUR power.
>
> They are guilt-tripping those of us in neighboring states, so that we
will use
> less electricity in the evening. We are expected to be "neighborly" and
let
> our homes get cold on zero-degree nights, so that the people in Los
Angeles
> won't advance on Sacramento with torches and pitchforks.
>
> The "beautiful people" in California are the perfect example of
irrationality.
> The same people who demanded long waiting periods for firearm purchases
then
> turned around and screamed at the gunshop folks, when told that the
waiting
> period doesn't include exemptions for movie stars, even during
riots.
>
> However, despite their anti-technology stance, of course, they
exempt
> themselves. A drive past "Commie Tommy's" place shows no lack of
lights or
> electronic alarms, and I doubt that he has cut the cords to the
computer, the
> HDTV nor DVD player.
>
> Likewise, the Nefarians demand that we junk "inefficient" older and
larger
> cars and SUVs, yet I haven't seen them giving up limos or those private
jets
> which burn as much fuel taxiing to the runway as my Camaro uses driving
from
> here to Los Angeles.
>
> Guilt is the favorite weapon of the Nefarians. They used guilt
about
> inner-city school quality to force a million schoolkids onto buses
across town
> in the 1960s, and guilt about the Antarctic "ozone hole" to force a
halt to
> sales of Freon in the Northern Hemisphere (despite a complete lack of
proof
> that the two are related in any way).
>
> Sometimes they go to ridiculous extreme in their attempts to manipulate,
such
> as when several entertainers vowed to move to Canada if Duhhh-bya were
to
> become President. Of course, they are abandoning their promises, but
they
> truly did expect that we would all vote for Prince Al, rather than risk
having
> them leave. I'm reminded of Jerry Brown's plaintive bleat that "The
people
> didn't vote the way we told them to," following a 1974 initiative
fight.
>
> Alec -- or a thousand Alecs -- is not worth more than a single Tere or a
Toni
> or a John, people who work to support their families and will never
own a
> Learjet.
>
> Perhaps these smug, self-important elitists should take the pizzas to
Bosnia
> themselves . . .then stay there. That would improve both countries.
>
> It would also give them something to do other than trying to make the
rest of
> us feel guilty for having had the foresight to build powerplants.
>
> But then, to a Nefarian, ANY foresight is to be condemned. When an
individual
> or community prepares for the future, that makes them more difficult to
bring
> under control.
>
> Two decades ago, during the "survivalist boom," anyone with more than a
couple
> of days' food on the shelf was painted as a paranoiac and lampooned in
the
> media and theater. Then came the "Y2K" panic, and suddenly it was
acceptable
> to throw a couple of extra cans of corn into the shopping cart, until
the
> crisis evaporated. Now that things are back to (ab)normal, there is
subtle
> pressure to draw down the reserves again.
>
> This winter, we have this new campaign to convince us that the people
who have
> brought the threat of dark, cold nights to Fresno are not actually
responsible
> for their actions. It is our GREED, you see. Our selfish desire to use
Utah
> electricity in Utah is to blame for the current situation (no pun
intended)
> facing the Golden State, not Californians' willingness to let the
> environmentalists push them back to
> the Dark Ages.
>
> In other words, the needs of those who refused to prepare outweigh the
needs
> of those who did, courtesy of Sacramento, who has called in the marker
they
> issued on November 7th. The little pig who built his house of brick is
to be
> forced to give it up to the one who built with straw, with an order by
the
> Clintoon Administration.
>
> It would be one thing if we were doing this for the good of our
neighbors on
> the Coast, to help them through a crisis, but the majority of the
population
> (and power usage) is in the warm southern half of the state, where
lack of
> electricity isn't likely to result in blocks of ice with people inside
them.
>
> No, the true casualty of of rolling blackouts would be the Nanny State,
the
> belief that Sacramento or Washington will kiss it and make it all
better.
>
> Some of my readers in California may believe that I am attacking them.
In
> truth, I am simply trying to provide a little perspective.
>
> It is not necessary to embrace the "Corporate World" to have light, nor
to war
> against it in the name of ecology. The true ecologist sees the whole
picture,
> of which mankind is a part, and tries to find the best set of
trade-offs. It
> is the "envinronmentalist" who sees Man as being at war with Nature. To
these
> people, other people are a blight which must be kept out of the forest
("No
> Motor Vehicles"), and considers periodic disastrous floods to be a good
price
> to pay for saving the clapper rail's habitat.
>
> After all, the farmers who lost their homes and livelihoods only have
one vote
> each, and are outnumbered by the Beautiful People in Santa Monica
and
> Sausalito.
>
> The big question is whether the power problems will turn on a light in
the
> minds of a few million Western voters.
>
_________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Keith R. Wood is keeping a light in the window for those who would
like to
> respond to his columns, either directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or through the
Mailbag.
>
> www.SierraTimes.com
>
>
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