Here's something from a friend of mine... something to think about...
...and something for the bandwidth police too...'-)
Gerard
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>Subject: Californians & Energy
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>America has engaged in some finger wagging lately because California
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>doesn't have enough electricity to meet its needs.
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>The rest of the country (including George W. Bush's energy secretary
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>Spencer
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>Abraham, who wants Californians to suffer through blackouts as
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>justification
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>for drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) seems to
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>be
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>just fine with letting Californians dangle in the breeze without enough
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>power
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>to meet their needs. They laugh at Californians' frivolity.
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>Well, everybody. Here's how it really is:
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>California ranks 48th in the nation in power consumed per person.
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>California grows more than half the nation's fruit, nuts and vegetables.
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>We're keeping them. We need something to eat when the power goes out.
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>We grow 99 percent or more of the nation's almonds, artichokes, dates,
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>figs, kiwifruit, olives, persimmons, pistachios, prunes, raisins and
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>walnuts. Hope you won't miss them.
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>California is the nation's number one dairy state. We're keeping our dairy
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>products.
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>We'll need plenty of fresh ones since our refrigerators can't be relied
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>upon. Got milk?
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>We Californians are going to keep all our high-tech software in state.
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>Silicon Valley is ours, after all. Without enough electricity, which you're
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>apparently keeping for yourselves, we just don't have enough software to
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>spare.
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>We're keeping all our airplanes. California builds a good percentage of the
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>commercial airliners available to fly you people to where you want to go.
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>When yours wear out, you'd better hope Boeing's Washington plant can keep
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>you supplied. There isn't enough electricity here to allow us to export
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>any more planes than we need ourselves.
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>Oh, yeah, and if you want to make a long-distance call, remember where the
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>satellite components and tracking systems come from. Maybe you could get
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>back in the habit of writing letters.
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>Want to see a movie this weekend? Come to California. We make
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>them here. Since we'll now have to make them with our own electricity,
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>we're keeping them. Even if we shot them somewhere else, the labs,
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>printing facilities, editing facilities, and sound facilities are all here.
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>Want some nice domestic wine? We produce over 17 million gallons per year.
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>We'll need all of it to drown our sorrows when we think about the fact
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>that no matter how many California products we export to make the rest of
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>America's lives better, America can't seem to help us out with a little
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>electricity. You can no longer have any of our wine.
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>You all complain that we don't build enough power plants. Well, you don't
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>grow enough food, write enough software, make enough movies, build enough
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>airplanes, or make enough wine.
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>Love,
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> The Californians
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