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I was thinking that this would be fun once a month too, until I'd heard about people having the sewers back up into their basements, a lack of any water for people in tall apartments, and similar. I guess it would be less fun than educational, just to see how well we'd be prepared to work together next time.
About the conspiracy theories: you don't really need them. I'm just looking at Ontario's recent history (lots of private-power vs. public power battles), and there's a pretty clear picture of ineptitude, incompetence, and outright toadying to corporate energy brokers all contributing to this. On the CBC news earlier, the caster mentioned something about "deregulation and price capping causing the rolling blackouts of California", and then going on to mention that no one here is blaming price capping, YET, but really, the only way to prevent this again is by charging more money for electricity. So we'll use it less, see? There was also a bit in there about the astronomical cost of modernizing the power grid, which is obviously a necessity.
No one yet has seriously mentioned anything about alternative forms of energy, nor about the ludicrousness of having all these systems so closely connected, nor any mention of this problem curiously affecting areas with wholly or mostly privatized power systems. Despite calls by our provincial govt. to limit power usage(both public and private), the lights are on all night in most downtown buildings, billboards are still electronically advertising, and I am still on the computer. |
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