It's HOT! It's COLD! It's WINDY! It's DRY! It's WET! It's OUR Weather! (Dallas: appliances, safer)

[DaveG99]

I turned my AC to the normal 74 degrees when I got home. Im not conserving anything. My power bill is never over $100 anyway.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by DaveG99

I turned my AC to the normal 74 degrees when I got home. Im not conserving anything. My power bill is never over $100 anyway.

This has nothing to do with how much you pay per kilowatt hour, it has to do with how much power you are consuming. They are asking us to conserve not to save money, but because they may not be able to generate enough electricity to keep up with demand...due in large part to people who think like you do.

I'll know who to blame now if the power goes out.

[DaveG99]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

This has nothing to do with how much you pay per kilowatt hour, it has to do with how much power you are consuming. They are asking us to conserve not to save money, but because they may not be able to generate enough electricity to keep up with demand...due in large part to people who think like you do.

I'll know who to blame now if the power goes out.

The fact that I pay less than $100 a month means I dont use much power even when keeping my place really cold. if my power goes out Im going to a friends or a hotel. I have the right to buy as much power as I want.

[Dallaz]

It's so hot! The AC is at 60 degrees LOL

[kenshi]

Originally Posted by DaveG99

I have the right to buy as much power as I want.

Not if it isn't available to buy, which is the reason for the rolling blackouts. You think they're doing it because they don't want to sell electricity?

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by kenshi

Not if it isn't available to buy, which is the reason for the rolling blackouts. You think they're doing it because they don't want to sell electricity?

DING DING DING!

This.

[galore]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

I'll know who to blame now if the power goes out.

I hope it's the energy providers who didn't invest enough to supply enough power so that people in a developed nation like the USA can live a comfortable life.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by galore

I hope it's the energy providers who didn't invest enough to supply enough power so that people in a developed nation like the USA can live a comfortable life.

Let's worry about what we can do something about today...like moderating our own usage.

[DaveG99]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

Let's worry about what we can do something about today...like moderating our own usage.

Maybe they should make some more power because there is a demand. When ever it gets too cold or too hot the same thing happens. how about they prepare for it and get more power made. its not my fault they suck at their job.

[Macbeth2003]

Originally Posted by DaveG99

Maybe they should make some more power because there is a demand. When ever it gets too cold or too hot the same thing happens. how about they prepare for it and get more power made.

How? We can't afford to burn natural gas or coal for it with the air quality in the area as bad as it is already. Forget debates about greenhouse gasses, we just have air so polluted in North Texas that many people with any breathing problems, even simply asthma have terrible problems some days just getting out to run errands.
everybody - pointlessly - freaks out whenever nuclear power is discussed- although when maintained safely with educated workers (Not Chernobyl) and not built in a hurricane path (Japan) it is much cleaner or safer than anything else.
That is other than renewable sources of power, which can't get us anything like what we need.
Add to that the fact that so much of the system we have simply cannot carry any additional power. And the money to rewire the electrical grid comes from...?
I guess a tripling of electricity rates, but I don't see that going over very well.
Demand outstripped ANY predictions. No one when many of these systems were installed could have foreseen both the growth, and the increased demands of bigger homes, and additional appliances (everyone having dishwashers, computers, multiple tv's etc). I men it literally was not possible to foresee it. No one could predict every electronic device invented or adopted by the American consumer in the last - say 25 to 30 years. Predictions were off and we have been playing catch up ever since.
We will get there eventually. In one of the hottest, worst summers in recent memory we are just now talking about rolling blackouts in August. This suggests power management is improving, but the mere fact that you -and I, and everyone else - want more power available doesn't cause the real technical and economic impossibilities precluding it to vanish. A shame, but true nevertheless.

that said, these are general comment on why power reductions are necessary, and it really is no one's fault - nice as it would be to have someone to blame. Obviously if your electricity bill is $100 in the summer than you aren't one of the people who uses power profligately anyway.