Originally posted by NY Madman:
The power grid will never be upgraded. How can it when numerous attempts to upgrade it and build new lines cause liberals and environmentalists to scream power lines cause cancer, some rodent animal might have it's habitat affected or some other bullshit reason. Every time any power construction takes place all the same whackos come out of the woodwork and get their way.
That is a fact of modern life.
Washington and numerous special interest political lobbies have everything to do with it.
That's the dumbest thing I've heard in my life, the only time people complain about power lines going up is when they have to level half a forest to run them through. The only thing that will anger more than ten college students is when big corporations want to run lines through a National Park or Wilderness Area.
The reason that there will never be an upgrade to the system is because the power companies don't want to spend the billions it would cost to modernize the system. The only way they could swing it would be to charge users more which would piss people off and force the government to intervene again to get things back on track.
Greed is the cause of the failing power system, first California now New York, the system can't be fixed if power companies keep hiding their losses to keep thier stocks up. Sooner or later money has to be put toward fixing and upgrading the system.
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