Louisiana Energy Crisis ?

[Aldaris]

Originally Posted By: 9296D21B14
You ever try to keep a FEMA trailer cool for three straight years while watching your looted wide screen TV and knocking back ice cold malt liquor? Dat meter spin like crazy, homie.
The gubmint subsidizing spinnaz is mad tyte yo, can't wait for some meter ICE. Gold chains, chrome plating, you know, the works. My meter's ballin', now cap them fools!

 

[JHZR2]

let's watch the RSP in this, please.

JMH

 

[moribundman]

Watching RSP, I get all hot and sweaty.

 

[dnewton3]

I'll be more specific.

Avoid RSP please, and all things even remotely related, or enjoy a little "vacation" time from us.

 

[Aldaris]

Louisiana woman
Mississippi man!
We get together every time we can
The Mississippi river can't keep us apart!
Too much love in this Mississippi heart
Too much love in this Louisiana heart

 

[moribundman]

Originally Posted By: dnewton3
I'll be more specific.

Avoid RSP please, and all things even remotely related, or enjoy a little "vacation" time from us.


I feel secure knowing at least one moderator takes his job and his mission seriously without being half asleep behind the wheel.

 

[Al]

Originally Posted By: 9296D21B14
You ever try to keep a FEMA trailer cool for three straight years while watching your looted wide screen TV and knocking back ice cold malt liquor? Dat meter spin like crazy, homie.

I think you have just nailed the problem.

 

[BrianWC]

Hey, FWIW, I read a little more into this. It's not as bad as you might think. See, Louisiana always does great in these energy crunches b/c we get more drilling going on. Well, what this program does is this, since state govt is getting a much bigger revenue stream from oil and gas, some of that money is being used to cut low income utility bills once they reach a designated critical level. So the utility companies aren't left holding the bag.

 

[PandaBear]

Shouldn't the solution of the problem to increase efficiency, curb waste, increase production, etc than to ask the utility company not to collect more than minimum payment?

AC isn't a necessities and people can always use a fan. W/O AC I am only using 1/2 of the baseline budget for a family of 2.

 

[9296D21B14]

Entergy New Orleans filed for bankruptcy less than a month after Katrina came ashore and emerged from bankruptcy in May of 2006. They got $57 million from their insurers (AIG) and $200 million in federal grants to offset storm related repairs. They have declared regular although somewhat reduced stock dividends since coming out of bankruptcy.

The deferred payment program http://www.lpsc.org is available to the poor and elderly after an application process and eligibility determination. (... the reduction is a temporary "deferrment", the total amount must be paid back at some point...) There are no tax dollars being spent to subsidize the consumer. I suppose any demonstrable losses to the utility by deferred payments would generate a nice tax break.

Let's review. The investors get the multimillion dollar taxpayer funded grant and the poorest customers get a few extra months to pay off rapidly rising energy bills.

Hopefully, the price of dog food stabilizes soon or we might get a replay of Soylent Green.

Silicon Valley weather is a tad less tropical than the lower Mississippi River valley, PB, so the definition of necessity may vary.

 

[BrianWC]

Yeah, I got it screwed up in my post, too. These are actually fed tax dollars that are given to every state as part of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. There is a push, though, to suppliment the fed money with state petro royalties.

 

[Aldaris]

Originally Posted By: 9296D21B14

Hopefully, the price of dog food stabilizes soon or we might get a replay of Soylent Green.
Considering the fact that many dog foods have historically had ground-up dead dogs and cats mixed in with the rest of the slurry base stock, it would actually be a re-replay. Or if you consider the cause of BSE, (think Mad Cow disease), with the brains and spinal matter of dead cows incorporated into cow feedstock, it would be a re-re-replay.

When Soylent Green becomes people, the movie transcends fiction and lands into the same category as the documentaries on PBS Nova about the solar system.

 

[Gary Allan]

Future "renderings".