{"id":334,"date":"2005-08-26T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/08\/26\/a9773577-3d45-4682-bbaa-d346679e6521\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:29:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:29:24","slug":"a9773577-3d45-4682-bbaa-d346679e6521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/a9773577-3d45-4682-bbaa-d346679e6521\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>It&#8217;s Rather Warm, Isn&#8217;t It?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kids, rolling blackouts are hitting Southern California this afternoon. That&#8217;s understandable I suppose, if this were a third world country, but it&#8217;s not. We like our low taxes so much that we find this electricity problem to be an acceptable trade-off to paying for power plants or new transmission lines or purchase agreements with other states outside our little grid. Sure, old and\/or weakened individuals may perish in the heat when their precious air conditioners are shut off, but what can you do? Our taxes are already too high, right?<\/p>\n<p>Collateral damage? Regrettable but within the range of acceptable losses?<\/p>\n<p>Um, no.<\/p>\n<p>Uninterruptible power supplies are flying off the shelf, laptops too (I suspect it&#8217;s the lovely mix of svelte computing power combined with the in-built power supplies). You can turn a crank to charge your phone and your radio. You can plug your house into your Diesel hybrid pickup. Should this consumption be channelled into, oh I don&#8217;t know, improved infrastructure? Hell, that&#8217;s almost un-American isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>The batteries are a kludge. The real fix is new wires but we won&#8217;t do it because we&#8217;re too comfortable. Sweating.<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Rather Warm, Isn&#8217;t It? Kids, rolling blackouts are hitting Southern California this afternoon. That&#8217;s understandable I suppose, if this were a third world country, but it&#8217;s not. We like our low taxes so much that we find this electricity problem to be an acceptable trade-off to paying for power plants or new transmission lines &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/a9773577-3d45-4682-bbaa-d346679e6521\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}