[DavidG]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:

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Originally posted by Mathias_Ice:
I assume you are typing this up from your solar powered PC so as not to be wasting power that should be going to the ambulance station or telephone switch. I'd hate to see a human life lost because you were using up that valuable electricity in such a greedy fashion as posting a message on the internet.

Not quite what I meant!!!

I was actually referring to the fact yesterday that when their was only 50-60% of the electricity available and many people had been without power in their neighbourhoods for over a day that those who had power did not listen to requests to reduce their consumption so that people without power might get a chance to get some and perhaps save their food in the refrigerator etc.

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I think the real problem is that few people believe this is true for 2 reasons I think.

Reason 1. A politician (Ernie Eves our premier) told us to do this. Does anyone believe anything a politician says or think they know what their talking about (see my previous post re the mayor of NY) It's even harder to believe the premier when he declares a state of emergency and that non essential workers should stay home and then the local governments are announcing they 'expect ALL their employees to come to work'. Who do you believe??

Reason #2: Does anyone really understand how the power grid works? If I really believed that turning this computer off would allow Mr Jones to have his power back I would do it in a second. I think the media coverage pretty much tells us they don't know how the system works and few seem too. They tell us things like 20 power stations were 'knocked out'. What the hell does this mean??? If this came from the Pentagon and they were taking about stations in Iraq it would be pretty clear. How they were 'knocked out' here is certainly not.