ThurstonHowell3rd

ThurstonHowell3rd t1_izh2exs wrote

You wouldn't even need a lot of guns to cause a big problem either.

Wall Street Journal - U.S. Risks National Blackout From Small-Scale Attack

FTA:

A small number of the country's substations play an outsize role in keeping power flowing across large regions. The FERC analysis indicates that knocking out nine of those key substations could plunge the country into darkness for weeks, if not months.

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ThurstonHowell3rd t1_istzo0j wrote

Q: Does a strike like this cause the price of the company's goods to go up or to go down?

I would think the former, and since I frequently buy lumber, I hope all this gets resolved soon, because it gives the company an excuse to raise their prices regardless of how much it affects their supply.

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ThurstonHowell3rd t1_irgf13e wrote

Careful now. Lord Jaydolph still has those Emergency Powers at his disposal until the end of the month.

Hard to say which was a larger waste of money, the $2M he spent on that failed campaign (Climate Change Pain Train - choo-choo!), or the millions of dollars of WA unemployment checks his Democrat lackey Suzi Levine blindly sent to Nigerian scammers.

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