Absolutely Correct, but they forgot one thing, California is the Number 1 donor state. More gasoline tax dollars
collected here than any other state. So when you drive, don't forget, it is OUR tax dollars that created and maintains
your roads.........
spikes_duall@hotmail.com on 03/28/2001 12:27:00 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net@Internet
cc: (bcc: Frank T Holloway/CA/KAIPERM)
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 01 Silver Dakota CC Sport, 2.5L, 5speed 01 Gold Saturn SC1 (3 door coupe) 1.9L SOC, 4speed auto http://www.spikesautos.homestead.com/Dak1.html Profile: http://www.twistedbits.net/WWWProfile/dakota/PfCA4R1zO470w
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