It's Hot, So SDG&E Names Tuesday Another ‘Reduce Your Use’ Day

Things I Learned August 20, 2012 at 11:53 pm

Hey remember when Americans used to solve problems by producing things instead of rationing things and made us the best damn country in the world?
No seriously does ANYBODY remember that?

Penny King August 21, 2012 at 11:38 am

The 'savings' that SDG&E is 'rewarding' is laughable. No, I will not be reducing my energy use any more than usual. AC is set at 80, and nothing else runs during the day. SDG&E will have to come up with a MUCH higher 'reward' system to encourage me to do anything more. They're going to charge what they want, no matter what.

Komfort August 21, 2012 at 12:12 pm

" When I was named ranking member on the Water and Power Sub-Committee in July, I noted that up until the last generation, the purpose of federal water and power policy was to create an abundance of both. And I noted that in recent years, abundance has been replaced with the rationing of shortages as the principal objective of federal policy.
I warned that: “The result is increasingly expensive water and power that is now affecting our prosperity as a nation. We’re no longer looking at cost-benefit analyses of which projects make economic sense and which do not. Instead, practicality has been replaced by an entirely new ideological filter: those projects that ration or manage shortage are considered worthy regardless of feasibility or cost – and projects that produce abundance are to be discouraged regardless of their economic benefits or simple common sense.”" http://mcclintock.house.gov/issues/water-and-power-subcommittee/

Komfort August 21, 2012 at 12:14 pm

"Today’s hearing illustrates this difference of policy dramatically.
Although the stated goal of this hearing is to relieve gridlock, the underlying agenda is to promote a so-called “green transmission system” – meaning facilities that limit transmission to sources that the majority finds ideologically pleasing – principally wind and solar – and that exclude electricity the majority finds ideologically displeasing – principally hydroelectric, coal, and nuclear. Never mind that wind and solar are the two most expensive ways we have yet invented to generate electricity. Never mind that hydroelectric, coal and nuclear are the least expensive – and two of those (hydroelectric and nuclear) produce exactly ZERO emissions. Thus, the sub-committees charged with the responsibility of producing abundant power for the United States will spend much of this hearing seriously discussing setting up an entirely duplicative transmission system solely for ideologically preferred sources of electricity and to the exclusion of all others." http://mcclintock.house.gov/issues/water-and-power-subcommittee/

Komfort August 21, 2012 at 12:16 pm

"But even this discussion becomes academic in the face of obstruction and opposition by the environmental left – both in Congress and in the Courts – to federally designated transmission corridors that will help bring more energy to our electricity grid.
At a time when our nation needs to build 32,000 miles of lines over the next five years, we cannot afford to block energy generation and transmission projects because they aren’t socially acceptable in San Francisco or the West Coast. If you want to see where all this leads, look to California, whose consumers now pay the highest electricity prices in the continental United States. In 1970, California produced 62% of its energy. By 2006, it imported 62% of its energy." http://mcclintock.house.gov/issues/water-and-power-subcommittee/

Komfort August 21, 2012 at 12:18 pm

"Three years ago, the city of Truckee was about to sign a long-term contract for electricity purchased from a new, state-of-the-art, EPA-approved coal-fired power plant in Utah. It was forced to abandon this contract because the power was not ideologically acceptable -- even to be imported. The replacement power now costs Truckee consumers nearly twice as much.
If this folly is imposed nationally, it will have disastrous consequences to the economy and to the quality of life of the people of our nation for generations to come. Finally, I need to note that the environmental left has not only devastated California’s once-abundant energy capacity, it has produced an unprecedented water crisis by the deliberate diversion of 200 billion gallons of water from Central Valley agriculture for the enjoyment and prosperity of the Delta Smelt." http://mcclintock.house.gov/issues/water-and-power-subcommittee/

Ron Selkovitch August 21, 2012 at 12:45 pm

TIL, Yes, that was before the Bush administration when investors found that toxic investments were more fruitful than productive work, although they produced nothing and eventually took us into a recession. And that's when the productive workers no longer had jobs. But not to worry, that's Capitalism for you. No one has an obligation to be productive - just make money for themselves.

Things I Learned August 21, 2012 at 01:06 pm

Policies unique to the Bush administration caused a worldwide economic collapse. Crony corporatism and regulatory capture are capitalism. Capitalism is about money not capital including human capital.

Realist August 21, 2012 at 01:45 pm

Here we go again with it's all Gorge Bush fault. LOL... idiots

Ron Selkovitch August 21, 2012 at 02:13 pm

Well, we have to be realists, Realist, and recognize why we went into the Bush recession, so we don't make the same mistake again. Lets be kind and not blame Bush, but blame the philosophy of his party - deregulate, and let the chips fall where they may.

Komfort August 21, 2012 at 02:44 pm

"Obama surrogate and Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright has finally revealed when they’ll stop blaming current conditions on Former President Bush, never. At a campaign rally in Highlands Ranch, Colorado last week Albright told an anecdote: “All of a sudden this man gets up and says, ‘How long are you people going to blame the previous administration?’ and I said, ‘Forever.’”"
http://revealingpolitics.com/blog/video/albright-blame-g-w-bush-forever/

Deanne Goodman (Editor) August 21, 2012 at 02:59 pm

I'd rather have some reward than no reward. I saved $6 last month on my SDG&E bill. I say keep the rewards coming SDG&E. Thanks.

Things I Learned August 21, 2012 at 04:07 pm

I'd rather pay $6 to SDGE than $600 to the ambulance company and $6000 to the hospital when I get heat stroke.
:-)