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Posted By: RockyTCB, 7/21/2023 5:24:51 AM

The old joke in which one fellow asks what the socialists used for lighting before candles and the other fellow answers “electricity” could use some updating. Substitute “socialists” for “U.S. Democrats.” But it won’t be just the Democrats using candles, it’s going to be all of us. When the power goes out, most of us just have to wait until it’s restored to get back to our normal lives. In the meantime, as we wander through a dark house flipping useless switches out of habit, we make sure we don’t open the refrigerator and we put off anything we had planned that requires us to burn electricity.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 7/21/2023 6:35:35 AM (No. 1517117)
The amusing part is that thousands of people are buying generators in the futile belief that fuel will still be available for them. They will have power for a week or two longer, that's all. The return to medieval times must be complete to appease the green weenies. Fortunately, guns do not need electricity or batteries.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Rather Read 7/21/2023 6:54:53 AM (No. 1517137)
My mother had a clothes washer that lasted over 30 years. I am one of 9 children, and that washer did multiple loads a day. My washer, which is 3 years old, takes forever to do a load and I don't think it's as good as my mother's and I know it won't last as long. When I bought it, the salesman at Lowes told me all the things I had to do and what kind of detergent to buy and finally said "the EPA regulations are ruining appliances"
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Reply 3 - Posted by: franq 7/21/2023 7:09:09 AM (No. 1517146)
Similar to that, #1, are people who think having gold or silver as a hedge against hard times will help. Yeah, I can envision sawing off a bit of my silver bar to go barter with the local, empty-shelved Walmart for some canned goods. Assuming there is gas in my car and I have ammo to protect myself during the trip. Hello!!!!!! Anybody home????? Think, McFly!!!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Venturer 7/21/2023 8:01:55 AM (No. 1517178)
Sooner or later the environment whacko's will have to admit you cannot transition to electricity without some way of supplying it that doesn't depend on the sun shining or the wind blowing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: felixcat 7/21/2023 8:22:31 AM (No. 1517200)
Here in Virginia - thanks to previous Dem Governor and state legislature, Republican lawmakers are fighting to decouple the state from California's emissions rules, but their last bill was defeated in February. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has still vowed to overturn what he called a "ridiculous edict," according to WTOP News. Dominion Power has installed smart meters and regrettably, Gov. Youngkin is pushing these huge data centers that require massive amounts of electricity all while the state is pushing this green crap down our throats like this huge off shore (Virginia Beach) wind farm. So once electricity becomes rationed, guess who will be the last to be allotted any to cool their homes and run the refrigerators?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 7/21/2023 8:54:07 AM (No. 1517233)
No, I'll use my multiple generators to provide power when the mains power is off, as I have done my whole life.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 7/21/2023 8:57:21 AM (No. 1517236)
This is just the tip of the iceberg. If these planned blackouts come to fruition, enjoy freezing in the dark during winter while owning nothing and eating bugs. And you will be required to act happy. Failure to pretend to be happy will be deducted from your social credit score.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 7/21/2023 9:08:54 AM (No. 1517247)
Apparently some assume that "silver bars" are useless, well,I have a large supply of old silver coins. And perhaps there won't be as much to trade for, but money, a store of value, has always been far more convenient than straight barter. If sawing off a piece of a bar of silver to trade seems inconvenient, try sawing off half of a car battery to trade, or half of a rifle, half of a live cow. Are having some silver coins a cure all? Of course not, nothing is. But it may be one more piece of the puzzle of trying to survive what one 1980s author called "the coming hard times". And in the ensuing 40+ years, they haven't arrived, even though they seem closer now than then. I know a family that kept their home in the Great Depression only because the father had squirreled away two gold coins and those paid the taxes for the years when they had absolutely no money, so they, unlike most of their neighbors, didn't lose their home and land, and could raise animals and crops to survive. And as to generators....a large number run on propane, and storing a month's propane for a generator isn't at all difficult. The other thing is to be able to live with minimal electricity, and the "all electric home" is a really bad choice. Having alternate (wood is preferable) heating and minimal electrical requirements is part of a plan for upsets in the grid. Is it the cure for no central power ever again? No, but my cabin in Colorado has been warm, comfortable and lighted for 35 years without ever a grid connection, and uses about 20 lbs of propane per year, plus wood and a modest solar electric system that I designed and built, with several upgrades over the decades.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Muguy 7/21/2023 9:49:32 AM (No. 1517276)
The quote from Ted Knight's character in the movie "Caddyshack" from comes to mind: "You'll get nothing and like it!" People on farms and rural areas somehow made it through the Great Depression wjo;e tje BIG cities were in much more dire shape. Perhaps a return to the basic values have merit after all-- I would hate for a Great Depression to happen again, but overspending and debt with Bidenflation is pushing U.S. increasingly to that result. Paying 16% more for the SAME items causes people to prioritize purchases to the bare minimum and Government NEVER seems to tell itself "NO"
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Reply 10 - Posted by: curious1 7/21/2023 12:08:07 PM (No. 1517368)
Hurry up and get those 4/5th gen small modular reactors built. Stick one in the back 40!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: kennedylaw 7/21/2023 12:17:36 PM (No. 1517380)
Here is an idea. Let's replace tens of millions of gasoline powered vehicles with EVs and plug them all into the power grid! What could go wrong? Everyone knows that EVs are powered by rainbows and unicorn farts.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Attila DiMedici 7/21/2023 12:19:44 PM (No. 1517385)
Unfortunately, #4, they already know that. They just don't want most people to know that their real end goal is not replacing Internal combustion vehicles with electric vehicles. Their end goal is getting rid of vehicles for everybody but the "elites". Actually, their real end goal is getting rid of just about everybody.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: FJB 7/21/2023 12:25:21 PM (No. 1517390)
An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. –Sun Tsu
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Reply 14 - Posted by: mc squared 7/21/2023 1:20:54 PM (No. 1517429)
If the power goes out long enough, even propane will be in short supply or unavailable at all. We'll just have to use government approved battery powered generators.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: franq 7/22/2023 7:55:56 AM (No. 1517879)
I partially accept esteemed #8s slap down, (not being facetious). My point is that if things deteriorate to having to use hoarded precious metals, I really doubt even those will help.
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