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Texans Encouraged To Conserve Electricity Thursday
Most of the State, including all of Central Texas, is being encouraged to conserve energy consumption following record-setting use Wednesday.
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Just wait until Obama is finished with us. We won't be able to afford electricity. We will all be sweating!
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This is exactly as to why I've used the phrase "Back-To-The-Future' in the past. Some of you people are finally understanding what I have been telling you!! If any of you are old enough to remember how we used to do things, then you are lucky, but to those too young to know, then you had better be talking to some Baby-Boomers/Seniors to find out. Because we are fast coming to Back-in-the-good-old-days!!! I'm very sorry for those of you that do not know what I'm writting/talking about. The population has increased too much, and the younger generations have taken too much for granted!! Buy-up, use-up all you can, with 'no' worries about tomorrow?? Taking 'entirely' too much for granted!!!!! Not even understanding what the word 'Conserve' means????
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They are asking people to conserve because peak usage could cause brownouts and other failures. As hot as it is, people rely on power for cooling and seniors, children etc. are put at risk. Utility companies don't generally generate much excess power because that's not profitable. Thank you deregulation. Something as important as power should probably not be left to private industry. Our rates versus regulated states is criminal. Oh, and just imagine we had wind farms, solar and other green power and energy efficient appliances and greener homes. Separatist nut jobs.
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Geez, what is one hour a day considering there are 24 hours in a day. Just another way the government is trying to control us... I thought we were a free country. With the way things are going we as Texans needs to split from the USA and be our own country.
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Did anyone out there experience power surges last evening? We had 3 within an hour. Scary to think we could lose power in this heat.
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why do we have to "conserve" energy??? why dont the utility companies do their job and provide the grid with the needed amount of electricity, why?,this is a false crisis used to garner fear in the populace to further take away your freedoms in the future. there are numerous backup genny's all around texas( on moast lake systems) which are coal and natural gas fired, its been ages since i have seen a steam plume from one of these indicating they are operating, this is fascist and just another plank put down on the road to a communist style of govt. control over our lives.
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