Re: The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout

On 2025-06-10 20:06, bitrex wrote:

On 6/10/2025 6:55 AM, Don Y wrote:

On 6/9/2025 9:43 PM, bitrex wrote:

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Probably just got backed up near the holidays with employees taking off early.
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The propane delivery companies always charge for an emergency delivery and reprime, even if they were delayed. You're free to complain by finding another company (who does the same thing.)

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The phrase "by the balls" comes to mind.

  We used to have oil heat when I was a kid, Dad would put a few gallons of diesel in the tank once in a while if they accidentally ran low, this was back when diesel was like $1 a gallon or whatever.
 But nobody who owns a detached home and can afford the switch to something else wants to have oil heat anymore here, and at the very least if they can't switch fuels entirely they're sun setting their forced-air HVAC in favor of a mini-split setup.

Somebody told me years ago that the advantage of oil heating is that there are many suppliers. You are not tied to one.
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Cheers, Carlos.