--------- Begin forwarded message ---------- Here's a good column on the bad state of the U.S. utilities: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/btlines/980917.btl_bad_news_power_.html
An excerpt is below. Lane ---- Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA ---- "If the power grid goes down, then it is all over. It doesn't matter if every computer in the country is Y2K compliant if you can't plug it into something. So we are focusing first and foremost on utilities and not just power. The water treatment system in every municipality in this country is computer driven and has the potential of being upset because of embedded chips and bad software. Utilities, therefore, are at the top of the list of the things we are addressing in our committee." -- Sen. Robert Bennett, chairman of the Special Senate Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem, June 12, 1998 Sen. Robert Bennett, R-UT, conducted a survey of the 10 largest electric, gas and oil utilities in the nation recently to determine their status as to Y2K compliancy. Not one of the utilities were certain that their suppliers, vendors and servicers, upon whom they depend to transmit gas and electricity, would be Y2K compliant. Not one of the companies had completed contingency plans for Y2K-related eventualities. Only two of the companies had even completed an assessment of their automated systems. One of them could not even guess how many lines of computer code it had. --------- End forwarded message ---------- -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
