Here in California we have something called the “Flex Your Power” program. Here is their website self-description.
Flex Your Power is California’s statewide energy efficiency marketing and outreach campaign. Initiated in 2001, Flex Your Power is a partnership of California’s utilities, residents, businesses, institutions, government agencies and nonprofit organizations working to save energy.
Part of the Flex Your Power program includes something called a “Flex Alert”. It is a public warning that we are getting dangerously close to overloading our energy grid, or as they put it, our energy reserves are getting low.
The reasons? What they say:
- High peak demand
- Unplanned generation outages or transmission problems
- Adverse weather
What they mean:
Your federal, state, and local government has not been doing it’s job. In fact while we have been passing ridiculous laws about plastic grocery bags, Co2, and removing the words “mom” & “dad” from school textbooks our supply of energy has not kept up with demand. We will not admit we are abject failures in energy planning. Instead, we are blaming you and expecting you to make do with less energy though our lack of foresight and planning, along with a death-grip on us by the environmental wacko lobby, has put us all in this precarious position.
July 9th, 2009 11:06 pm
We also expect you to “Flex Your Power” by… well… not flexing your power.
Because war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.