Environment & Energy

Tigress DEM

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1. Second REC on an AWESOME!! thread. California SO needs this!!

Sun Oct 28, 2012, 02:17 PM

Oct 2012

All those rolling blackouts from "for profit" energy companies selling their power off right before an anticipated "high need" time so they could buy it back at a higher cost and rip off the consumer in the process.

WISH the electric companies had NEVER been sold to private industry. It USED to be owned by the government so that the money was to keep up the plants, pay employees and keep the infrastructure updated.

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Second REC on an AWESOME!! thread. California SO needs this!! Tigress DEM Oct 2012 #1

Which California electric companies used to be government owned ... oldhippie Oct 2012 #4

Utility divesting of production Finishline42 Oct 2012 #5

I am still not aware of any govt owned plants sold to private companies .... oldhippie Oct 2012 #6

Historical notes Tigress DEM Nov 2012 #7

Thanks, good historical insight, but still doesn't address .... oldhippie Nov 2012 #9

I don't know. I lived there it changed. I was a kid. Tigress DEM Nov 2012 #11

I lived there, too, and I did look it up .... oldhippie Nov 2012 #12

Oh the bitter bitter irony. Indydem Oct 2012 #2

Wind, Solar, & Geothermal ffr Oct 2012 #3

Frickin' awesome. AverageJoe90 Nov 2012 #8

nice longbow5 Nov 2012 #10