Look, we need to get some numbers here-- in terms of increased power consumption in Venezuela. Remember about soviets and electricity? Well social revolution, social development takes a lot of juice, literally. So the improved social welfare of more, rather than fewer people in Venezuela certainly increases the load on the grids, on the existing generating capacity.
I think those numbers will show significant increase in demand without significant increase in generating capacity. Let's see what we can find. ----- Original Message ----- From: "nada" <dwalters...@gmail.com> To: "David Schanoes" <sartes...@earthlink.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:32 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Energy and El Niño, Venezuela and Colombia > Anthony, the blackouts have little to do with Venezuelan economic > situation and I think you mis-read the Romero article. > > It was Romero that mentioned the lack of rainfall as a source of > problems for the country's power failures, you imply he doesn't. In fact > the problem is somewhat structural. ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
