By Katie Hansen, Pacific Beach

And the TV stations, the water park, the theatres, the museums, CCDC, city council, Fry's Electronics... Dang where'd all the power go? Oh, it went to all those POWER BROKERS who run your life and write smack like this. Lights are out? Call Enron. Or how a bout Sempra Energy and Litigation Corp...How'd they get that name? Well Enron died and Sempra got sued until it really hurt. // This pap from the restaurant association is just another group that agreed to write a letter to the voiceofsandiego.org on the hottest day of the year about how they suffer when the lights go out -- let's see if they go out. // How about when your kids are grown up and their kids are growing up and the world is wasted by energy use -- YAY let's go toMcDonalds!

Posted by Christopher Hall | reply to this comment
August 30, 2007 3:50 pm

Hmmm a rather curious rant! All those components make up today’s society—you have a problem with that? But really, there have been just barely modest gains in power production but large gains in population since 2001—we live under the threat of blackouts all the time.

Posted by Howiek | reply to this comment
August 30, 2007 10:15 pm

It sounds like a great time to start using things like solar and wind power.

Posted by Bud | reply to this comment
August 31, 2007 8:06 am

Great idea Bud. Go out and get two or three estimates to put solar on your house. I did! I can't afford solar at the moment. As far as wind turbines are concerned, fine just not anywhere close to my home, they are just plain ugly and noisy. They also kill a lot of birds as well.

Posted by Howiek | reply to this comment
August 31, 2007 10:53 pm

Please note that not all businesses (I own a construction comapany and a Marketing and PR Firm) are in favor of the Sunrise Powerlink - The benefits are so murky that the CPUC has cancelled hearings so that SDG&E can get their house in order. We do not want or need old technology that will devastate Anza Borrego Desert State Park and scar a large swath of San Diego County. SDG&E needs to step to the plate and become better community citizens offering the region alternatives - which in the long run will be more cost effective and protect the envionment in which we live.

Posted by Carolyn Morrow | reply to this comment
September 1, 2007 3:53 am

Ms. Hansen, the California Restaurant Association and every small business owner might try to decide whether you support ELECTRICITY or whether you support the Sunrise Powerlink. They are two very different things. The line item of electricity on your bill MIGHT go down under certain scenarios, but as it is written, the Sunrise Powerlink cannot guarantee that it will bring us cheaper OVERALL bills OR renewable energy. In fact, it actually guarantees that our bills will be higher, due to the much higher transmission costs!! I predict less restaurant business at that point anyway. Our CPUC's Division of Ratepayer Advocates has called Sunrise a dud. "Buyer beware!!"

Posted by Mary | reply to this comment
September 1, 2007 12:18 pm

Go big picture, folks, and look at all details and alternatives, not just be a NIMBY focused on one component of a huge plan. Sunrise Powerlink will guarantee reliable power supplies and help meet government mandates for renewables, which are out there, in no one's backyard, waiting to be supplied. Sunrise Powerlink is the extension cord to get those clean energy supplies here to consumers. Much of the infrastructure for Sunrise is already in place, so it will not freshly scar the entire Anza Borrego park, which I visit and cherish as well. It will be upgraded to improve reliability to get us wind and solar power because such is too expensive for consumers to put on their homes. It is the most responsible and cost effective solution for our aggressive consumption.

Posted by Jen | reply to this comment
September 5, 2007 10:02 pm

Are San Diego's restaurants and small businesses able and ready to absorb their share of the $1.4 billion the powerlink would cost when the CPUC adds it to SDG&E's ratebase and allows the company to add its cost, with interest, into rates?

Posted by Watcher | reply to this comment
September 6, 2007 7:26 am

Jen: Get serious. Sunrise is not intended to import illusionary Imperial Valley renewable power here, and SDG&E refuses to commit to doing that. Sempra Energy has a white elephant natural gas powerplant outside Las Vegas. It can't sell energy in Nevada because Nevada Power and Sierra Pacific won't buy it, preferring to build their own coal plant instead. So Sempra has made a deal with the CPUC to sell its Nevada plant to SDG&E at a discount. Sunrise will be used to import fossil fuel power from that plant here. Painting it green is just one way of getting Sunrise through the regulatory process.

Posted by Watcher | reply to this comment
September 6, 2007 7:27 am

liked your article very much. i truly beleive that the future lies in generating energy from the sun (google FSLR) and then see electric autos soon to be coming from Norway (google "think global"), I would buy one of these cute cars in a new york second, as would hundreds of thousands of others. Brin and Page have invested here...good enough for me... besides have you ever/lately noticed that there's only one person in 90% of all cars on the road at any time of day! what a huge waste! email me some time. thanks, Ray in Venice.s

Posted by ray | reply to this comment
September 29, 2007 1:11 pm

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