California"s prop 7

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Permalink Reply by Lawrence Murray on October 13, 2008 at 4:26pm

Here are the Q: Prop 1a Prop 7 Prop 10
Is it good for me? yes (maybe) yes yes
Is it good for my neighbor? yes yes yes
Is it good for California? yes yes yes
Is it good for our nation? Yes yes yes
Is it good for the world? Yes yes yes
How are we to pay for these? get Amtrack to put the train in
we pay by paying more for our electricity but cleaner
we pay lees at the pump-so what if one of our neighbors makes money off it-THAT"S THE AMERICAN WAY. I would love to give T.Boone Pickens a few more millions so we do not have to import oil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lawrence

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Permalink Reply by John Henry on October 13, 2008 at 9:17pm

If prop 7 passes, be prepared to see a huge increase in your electric bill. Another case of wishful thinking.

If we forced the utilities to go 50% green, what happens when the wind are not blowing, sun isn't shinning, and not enough cows producing "bio-mess" for that day? We will have 2 choices:

a) Go black out and wait for green power to come
b) Bid for emergency power from the grid

Nobody will be willing to go with (a) and we know what happens during the energy crisis with (b) - all the generator owners will just idle their plants and wait for a call for the need for emergency power.

There is no shortage of green projects in the works (see: http://www.caiso.com/14e9/14e9ddda1ebf0.pdf). We don't need yet another unrealistic and costly proposition.

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