Re: Grand Apagon - Electricity (not) in Spain

On 4/29/2025 4:39 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:51:36 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
 

On 2025-04-29 21:26, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:13:29 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
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On 2025-04-29 14:24, Martin Brown wrote:
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Anyone have any idea what actually happened?

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No. Every possibility is being investigated, and the government has
promised to say it, and claim damages if there is a culprit.

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Cool. The government can collect damages from itself.

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Nope. It is private companies.

 What we do here is insanely bad forest management that builds
incredible fuel loads. So when a fire explodes, government conjectures
an ignition source and sues some private party. Unless it was
lightning; it's hard to sue God.
 When unemployed people are cold and hungry in the dark, they may
reconsider voting Green.

The Greens will have to wait in line.
Treasury Secretary Bessent said he is not currently concerned about the risk of empty store shelves, stating, "We have some great retailers. I assume they preordered."
It's some good stuff these people are smoking. US retailers learned _nothing_  from COVID, other than how to raise prices.