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And if we could just nuke the prison...
You know my locale...are you near by?
The prison and the Diablo nuke plant are two of the counties largest employers. And they're shutting Diablo down. That is going to put a serious wrinkle in things around here.
Apparently, Kalifornia has "too much" energy and doesn't need the nuke plant. In fact, the trend now is to prohibit the building of houses that use "natural gas", instead requiring that new construction be all electric...despite electric being stupid expensive. In fact, I got the "state mandated" snot fined out of me last year during a particularly hot, two week run of weather for being a gross user of energy...yet, apparently, we have a metric ass ton of it. I did some plumbing and converted our clothes dryer to gas.
Gosh...it seems like yesterday when "natural gas" was the answer to everything, to include global warming, impotence, and gout.
Funny and true story...my little brother was also part of the Irish Welfare program...meaning he was the fuzz as well (he didn't listen to older brother's career advice). He worked for an agency that fell under the auspices of a "progressive" city manager that insisted that the police department begin driving patrol cars powered by natural gas...which ended up with the highly cost effective result of them driving 15 miles out of their jurisdiction, 3-4 times a night, to fill up their units. Well...one night, little brother went to stop a n'er-do-well for a violation and the chase was on. His natural gas powered police car versus a...no lie...Volkswagon Beetle. And the Beetle got away...
Fun and games in Kalifornia...
Justin