Can you believe that after months of energy crisis, that the legislature still can't do what's necessary to kick ass and get the power going on?

I mean, do you realize that if we go, we are taking down half the Western Power Grid? When they had that Northridge earthquake a few years back, people in Idaho lost power, folks. I can't believe that some of those states are suing us for taking their power. Dude, if we go, you go. The whole West Coast will be black and we'll be able to see a lot more stars, but we'll be freezing our asses off.

When a power plant was going to go up in San Jose to fuel all those Silicon Valley power sucking computer whizzes, Cisco Systems showed up at the Department of Energy hearings and put the kabosh on the whole thing because their employees wouldn't want to live so close to a power generating plant.

Naw, but those same employees would like to telecommute from home, crank up the AC in the summer, refrigerate their food, etc. Cisco just thought it should go in another neighborhood, perhaps one that wouldn't have the economic wherewithal to fight it.

I want to know why I can't get solar panels installed on the roof of my building to heat my water and to heat my house. I want to know why we aren't covering every bare piece of earth with windmills to take advantage of that "Delta Breeze." I want to know why we aren't running gerbils through wheels to generate power until we can do something better. I want to know why when the power crunch hit in the summer, the government didn't think it mattered until we hit a Stage 3 emergency.

I want to know why I have to pay for what others fucked up.

Specifically, I think I want to move to Tahiti.