The deaths
should be laid on the hands of fossil fuel shilling airheads who identify themselves as "
environmentalists" even as they deny the cleanest
and safest form of energy on the planet: That would be nuclear energy.
California has been playing the natural gas shell game for quite some time, all through the 1990's, but guess what? The gas is going to be gone. They won't be able to build the dangerous LNG terminals in Malibu or anywhere else, and even if they could, there's no clear evidence that they'll be anyone willing to unload anything at them.
The other California solution has been pure NIMBY: Doing things like buying coal power from Nevada and claiming "it's not ours."
Guess what? There's no carbon dioxide wall at Lake Tahoe. Coal kills everyone on the planet, everywhere.
Meanwhile before those dams are silt and the rivers around them will die and still still the mindless will be pretending that it's not your fault.
I recognize that people like Nancy Pelosi are suddenly waking up to what climate change and dangerous fossil fuel waste is about, but I fully expect a certain subset of the population to remain unredeemly clueless.
I note that you claim, once more to speak for all Democrats, by the way.
Besides Pelosi, other Democrats speaking in positive terms about nuclear energy, include at least 2 of the 4 major Presidential candidates, because in spite of all the "renewables will save us" rhetoric, the world has recognized that renewable energy will
never be built fast enough to do doodly squat.
The triumph of stupidity will, in due time, lead to desperation. I have no idea if you live in California but hell if I'm not glad I moved. They have a big problem with
reality in that state, which explains how they elected Hydrogen Hummer Boy on a big promise of a brazillion solar roofs.
Speaking of the solar roofs, here's a satellite photo selected at random from Palo Alto:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=palo+alto&z=18&ll=37.442564,-122.139945&spn=0.00181,0.003616&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addrI don't see even one of those Brazillion roofs, nor do I see any hydrogen Hummer stations.