I just know that all of the different kinds of energy and oil companies are notorious for all of their dirty deeds at everyone elses' expense. After awhile, it's like that old cliché, 'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.'.
In my opinion, a great or even greater problem than corporate malfeasance is that nearly every household and every person insists on their electricity demand, exactly as is -- PCs three to a home, central air in 3000 sq foot McMansions, a t.v. in every room, running washers/dryers several times a week (I know, you're not all in McMansions, but I'll bet nearly all of you have every electrical convenience you can afford).
And yet, with all that increased demand and the refusal to conserve in any
personal way (outside of emergency 'stages,' though even then it's rarely truly voluntary), people protest nearly every attempt to construct additional infrastructure (you know, transmission lines, generator plants, natural gas pipelines, coal railroads). Even wind projects are nearly impossible to build anywhere along the east coast.
what the fuck do people think powers all their shit?
[Jag, not venting at you, just at the overall anger and pessimism levied at power companies while there's not only no sense of personal responsibility, but a skewed sense of "community concerns" keeping the very power people crave so difficult to build].
We now use 50% more electricity than we did only 20 years ago. And in 20 years, it's expected we'll need more than 50% additional power to meet demand.
20 years ain't a long time.
By the way, California is the worst offender. I know, I know, while one of the best states in terms of energy conservation, they refuse to allow just about any infrastructure of real use be built in their state. Their answer? Build it in the Southwest or Northwest. They can dirty their air and California will import 'clean' energy from them.
California likes to act like its own nation. A dream of mine is for it to be treated like its own continent...Hmm, no power from all those neighboring states, what's a continent to do?
Alas, Texas acts like its own country as well. But you know what, it's actually not interconnected to neighboring states, electricity wise. So they actually do sustain themselves fully.
