Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

“Has Mr. Kristof never heard of an electric bill?”

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Yeah well, $500 don’t getcha much of a gen-set.
In a rural setting you could probably run your refrigerator freezer, water pressure system, OR computer/TV. Nota Bona OR.
An electric hot water heater…no-way.

You’d be surprised at how useful my little Honda 2000 is in a black out. But if SaskPower puts up more giant fans, I’ll likely upgrade.

That Kristof column reminds me why we need to buy a generator – policy makers might actually listen to people like him. Like Canada, I doubt that the US government, or a single state or local government in the US has gotten smaller in any objective analysis. The problem is where they are spending the money. It is not spent on improving basic, essential services. From what I’ve have read, it is pensions, wages, debt servicing, defense and entitlements where government spending growth is the largest. Any bets where any new revenue get spent on?
BTW, is there a strong correlation between tax rates and better government run services. I know that in the US higher education spending has not improved language and math results. Do high tax states like Cali, Illinois and New York have significantly better results than lower tax states? Writers like Walter Russel Mead have shown that blue model states are in fact failing. Prioritizing spending and reviewing program/spending effectiveness would work better than more mindless tax and spend policies.
Self-reliance, like buying a generator, is the rational, cost-efficient response to government incompetence.

Looks like the bosses at the Bakers Union, the guys who pushed Twinkies off the shelf and 18,000 union members into unemployment are also Charter Members of our Moral And Intellectual Superiors Club.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/11/the_sweet_life_of_bakery_union_officials.html
FRANK HURT PRESIDENT $210,672.00 $51,982.00 $262,654.00
DAVID DURKEE SECRETARY-TREASURER $196,627.00 $47,769.00 $244,396.00
JOSEPH THIBODEAU EXEC VICE PRESIDENT $182,582.00 $36,407.00 $218,989.00
STEVE BERTELLI VICE PRESIDENT $137,638.00 $60,424.00 $198,062.00
MICHAEL KONESKO VICE PRESIDENT $137,638.00 $46,659.00 $184,297.00
ARTHUR MONTMINY VICE PRESIDENT $137,638.00 $37,867.00 $175,505.00
ANTHONY JOHNSON VICE PRESIDENT $137,638.00 $29,795.00 $167,433.00
ROBERT OAKLEY VICE PRESIDENT $142,638.00 $24,627.00 $167,265.00
RANDY ROARK VICE PRESIDENT $137,638.00 $29,211.00 $166,849.00
SEAN KELLY VICE PRESIDENT $136,124.00 $25,665.00 $161,789.00
JOHN PRICE REPRESENTATIVE $109,645.00 $49,379.00 $159,024.00
JAMES RIVERS REPRESENTATIVE $99,645.00 $51,922.00 $151,567.00
HARRY KAISER ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT $137,637.00 $12,127.00 $149,764.00
CESAR CALDERON ORGANIZER $99,645.00 $49,206.00 $148,851.00
BARBARA FIELDS REPRESENTATIVE $99,645.00 $47,239.00 $146,884.00
RAYMOND SCANNELL RESEARCH DIRECTOR $137,637.00 $8,292.00 $145,929.00
RICHARD YEAGER FINANCE DIRECTOR $137,637.00 $8,207.00 $145,844.00
ANTHONY SHELTON REPRESENTATIVE $99,645.00 $44,729.00 $144,374.00
JOHN PURVIS REPRESENTATIVE $99,645.00 $40,860.00 $140,505.00
MARCO MENDOZA REPRESENTATIVE $99,645.00 $38,107.00 $137,752.00
BLAINE WILLIAMS REPRESENTATIVE $99,645.00 $36,331.00 $135,976.00
JETHRO HEAD REPRESENTATIVE $95,430.00 $39,381.00 $134,811.00
KARL WALKER ORGANIZER $98,549.00 $32,484.00 $131,033.00
JAMES CONDRAN REPRESENTATIVE $99,645.00 $29,049.00 $128,694.00
ERIC ANDERSON REPRESENTATIVE $99,645.00 $28,135.00 $127,780.00
SYLVAIN GAGNE ORGANIZER $98,549.00 $27,810.00 $126,359.00
DANIEL RONDOU REPRESENTATIVE $98,549.00 $27,329.00 $125,878.00
RANDY FULK REPRESENTATIVE $88,479.00 $35,342.00 $123,821.00
CORRINA CHRISTENSEN PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR $100,905.00 $6,674.00 $107,579.00

Fred, I’m guessing those folks would have enough cash to buy a generator, is that your point? 😉

So right,Kate. My little 3000 watter powers my fridge,freezer,furnace,one burner on the stove AND TV/computer,at one time. Just don’t try a hair dryer/nuke. :):)

BTW, don’t worry, Saskpower’s new push is carbon capture (more employees, fewer MWs) in the south but it is also building new natgas generation at places like QEPS. I think the wind tower fad has run its course, probably because the Sask TransCanada highway area had run out of places with both high visibility to traffic and good wind conditions. Wind generation was just a PR thing anyway – they are expensive, never pay off their capital cost (tower, transmission lines) and intermittent wind power is hard on electrical grid/grid control.

Have a 14Kw Generac standby generator. My liberal neighbour called the township and complained about the noise. His nose is out of joint because generator noise is totally legal during a power failure.
The power failed last summer in the middle of the night during a stifling heat wave. Of course I felt terrible knowing he had to open his windows due to the heat…only to be met with the noise of my generator and our central air conditioner.

The more of the “green” garbage the left inflicts on our power companies, the more we will be forced to be self-sufficient. A guy at work lives off the grid because of the expense of stringing power lines to his place in the mountains. He was real happy with his new wind generator until a 70+ mph wind caused it to jam. He thought he would be ok because he doesn’t live in a “high wind area” (at least for Montana). Nearby Livingston regularly gets 90+ gusts in the wintertime.

Thorium reactors would be small, cheap and safe apparently. A community or individual should buy their own and screw the big government grids. Or buy an old nuke-powered submarine and plug it in.
Anything but these well-paid, large incompetent bureaucracies who will certainly send out nicely written press releases blaming global warming the next time we’re freezing in the dark. Bastards.

sasquatch….$479.oo (sale price) could buy 5500 run…6500 surge genset, tyhat’ll run every thing you need, and if yer stupid enough to have a electric hot water tank, just disconnect lower element and you sould be fine (you’d be surprized at how many of these puppies I find that the lower element is not functional when ppl complain about poor H-watert supply:-)))
as to the topic, bury all the power lines with unionized labour:-)))

“as to the topic, bury all the power lines with unionized labour:-)))
Posted by: NME666 at November 26, 2012 4:36 PM”
And in just what century would this be completed?

Kate: You are dead right about the Honda generator. A technological marvel. I bought one for my boat because it was so quiet compared to cheaper versions like Coleman. It works great in the occasional blackout that we have here. ‘;m the only one on the street with power.

Power outages are a weekly occurrence here in Hooterville Ontario. The line I’m on is stupid for some reason. Usually no longer than ten minutes and most under one minute. The odd time though somebody hits a pole with a dump truck and you’re down for the night.
So I have a cheapie generator from Princess Auto. 7700 watts to run the cistern pump, sump pump, furnace, photon torpedo turrets and all the other whatnot to keep the Phantom Compound from freezing/flooding/collapsing into a black hole.
Not a quiet machine, but then no neighbors to complain. YAY for rural living!
And no, Mr. Kristoff likely hasn’t seen his electric bill in a long time. I’m sure he has “people” to mind that sort of thing for him.

The point missed is that were mister kristof informed of the generator option and its lower cost he would be demanding that everyone be provided free generators.

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