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Lobby Dosser wrote:


Was the electricity out for six months? Nation wide? It is possible.

Possible but highly unlikely. In the Pacific NW lots of the
electricity is hydroelectric.
Other places are coal, or natural gas. What do you see as possibly
causing a nation wide power outage?


Destruction of power lines. Right now there are disruptions and everything
is working. OK. If several producers go out and lines go down you could see
a system that is over taxed and totally fail. It happened years ago in New
York, a few years ago, or maybe last summer in the Midwest, and it happens
in California.
There would be no extreme hurry to repair as energy shortages are a
palatable excuse to drive up prices. Both the energy companies and oil
companies are enjoying this scenario right now.

Gosh, BP is shutting down its Oil pipe line today and already prices for
gasoline are going up.