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BabyPeanut on January 5, 2006 - 2:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Briefly explained: "When the electricity goes out, you are back in the Dark Age. And the Stone Age is just around the corner."
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Twilight on January 5, 2006 - 2:41pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Yeah, OK, I know what would happen without electricity.  But I was thinking more about the direct impacts of the repeal of the Utility Holding Company Act.  Will it hasten problems in the grid?  If there's one thing that would cause more unrest than high fuel prices, it would be no electricity.  
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BabyPeanut on January 5, 2006 - 6:24pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
My point is that someone already predicted the collapse of the grid as inevitable as energy resources dwindled.  The grid doesn't need politics to tear it apart and the flip side is that restructuring could be a last desperate effort to ward off a collapse.
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Twilight on January 5, 2006 - 7:56pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Or it could just be another monopolistic take over of an industry so that a few people can make a lot of money.  Can you say "tycoon" or "robber barron"?  And the concern is that it could bring on a collapse from causes completely separate from dwindling energy resources.  Yet another subvertion of resources so that the weathly few can get even richer.
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BabyPeanut on January 6, 2006 - 1:13pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
No, I see it as the desperate wealthy trying just to hang on in a world where money is becoming increasingly worthless.

I do not see any separation between dwindling natural resources and the loss of wealth.  To me money is an accounting system for keeping track of things that all chain together back to the earth's dwindling natural resources.  One day you will see that you can't eat money because it is symbolic for the things it can buy including food.

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