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Originally Posted by whell
Talk about special interests mucking up the works for everyone. The fact that our country's energy policy must be rubber stamped by the environmental lobby is just sad. Ask the folks in the Southwest right now who are having fun with rolling blackouts.
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Mainly because energy generation is in the greedy hands of private industry. When I lived in Ottawa (Ontario Hydro) for 13 years there was one blackout. A transformer the size of an average bedroom blew out. It was replaced with one mounted on a flatbed trailer in 12 hours. The permanent replacement was done without a hitch some time later.
Private industry spend all the profits on shareholders, or in the case of the local one, bad investments, and not on their local plant. BG&E locally has defaced more trees than all the storms and hurricanes have. If they had buried the wires they would not be spending money every year defacing trees. Poor planning.