I dunno about the wine.. Texas has some bad a$$ wine.. Made in Fort
Stockton... And some good beer... And computer manufacturers... and
"electricity".. and if you look hard enough you might find a few
nut's...q;^B And as far as planes go I'd much rather drive my Dak... ;-)
Hop.
W/ a V8 lol
(Ducking fer cover!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miles Harris" <spikes_duall@hotmail.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:17 PM
Subject: DML: No Power for California.. No Soup (so to speak) for you.
(long)
> I got sent this item. I don't know of its accuracy but it is amusing. I've
> added items in ""
>
> The California Electricity Crisis
>
> America has engaged in some finger wagging lately because California
> doesn't have enough electricity to meet its needs. The rest of the
country
> (including George W. Bush's energy secretary Spencer Abraham, who wants
> Californians to suffer through blackouts as justification for drilling for
> oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) seems to be just fine
with
> letting Californians dangle in the breeze without enough power to meet
> their needs. They laugh at Californians' frivolity.
>
> Well, everybody. Here's how it really is:
>
> "California is the 6th largest economy in the world (last I checked)."
>
> California ranks 48th in the nation in power consumed per person.
>
> California grows more than half the nation's fruit, nuts and vegetables.
> We're keeping them. We need something to eat when the power goes out.
We
> grow 99 percent or more of the nation's almonds, artichokes, dates, figs,
> kiwifruit, olives, persimmons, pistachios, prunes, raisins and walnuts.
> Hope you won't miss them. "I would think Florida, with its older
> population, couldn't survive without prunes"
>
> California is the nation's number one dairy state. We're keeping our
dairy
> products. We'll need plenty of fresh ones since our refrigerators can't
be
> relied upon. Got milk?
>
> We Californians are gonna keep all our high-tech software in state.
> Silicon Valley is ours, after all. Without enough electricity, which
> you're apparently keeping for yourselves, we just plain don't have enough
> software to spare (haven't a square to spare so to speak).
>
> We're keeping all our airplanes. California builds a good percentage of
> the commercial airliners available to fly you people to where you want to
> go. When your's wear out, you'd better hope Boeing's Washington plant can
> keep you supplied "(does the author of this realize Boeing just closed
down
> the Long Beach Douglas plant)". There isn't enough electricity here to
> allow us to export any more planes than we need ourselves. And while
we're
> at it, we're keeping all our high-tech aerospace stuff, too, like the
> sophisticated weapons systems that let you sleep at night, not worried you
> might wake up under the rule of some foreign kook. Oh, yeah, and if you
> want to make a long-distance call, remember where the satellite components
> and tracking systems come from. Maybe you could get back in the habit of
> writing letters.
>
> Want to see a blockbuster movie this weekend? Come to California. We
make
> them here. Since we'll now have to make them with our own electricity,
> we're keeping them. Even if we shot them somewhere else, the labs,
> printing facilities, editing facilities, and sound facilities are all
here.
>
> Want some nice domestic wine? We produce over 17 million gallons per
year.
> We'll need all it to drown our sorrows when we think about the fact that
> no matter how many California products we export to make the rest of
> America's lives better, America can't see its way clear to help us out
with
> a little electricity. You can no longer have any of our wine.
>
> "One other item to add. We will also be keeping California's number one
> cash crop (at least the last time I checked). You know the one grown in
> Humbolt county. We will need it to help us forget the fine mess our
elected
> officials have gotten us into."
>
> You all complain that we don't build enough power plants. Well, you don't
> grown enough food, write enough software, make enough movies, build enough
> airplanes and defense systems or make enough wine. This is your last
> warning, America. Lighten (us) up before it's too late.
>
> Love,
> The Californians
>
> "I love California - I practically grew up in Phoenix."
> Dan Quayle
>
>
> Dak content: When the backout hits my neighborhood during the hot weather
> (and it will). At least I will be able to go out and sit in my Dak running
> the AC knowing that my wimpy, anemic, under-powered 2.5L will not be using
> as much fuel as a 6 or 8 cylinder in the same situation. One more thing to
> remind me of how great owning the 120hp 4 cylinder engine is as the truck
> strains to make it over the hill out of Simi. (I beaten this thread line
> into the ground, time to say thank-you and I'm out of here).
>
>
> --
> Miles Harris III
> Simi Valley, CA
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