America has engaged in some finger wagging lately because California dosen't have enough electricity to meet it's needs. The rest of the country (includdding George W. Bush's engery secretary Spencer Abraham,who wants Californians to suffer through blackouts as justification for drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) seems to be just fine with letting Californians dangle in the breeze without enough power to meet their needs. They laugh at Californians frivolity. Well,everybody, HERE IS HOW IT REALLY IS: California ranks 48th in the nation in power consumed per person...AND Calif. grows more than half of the nation's Fruit..Nut's and Vegetables. WE'RE KEEPING THEM!! We need something to eat when the power goes out! WE grow 99% or more of the nations almonds,artichokes,dates,figs,kiwifruit,olives, persimmons,pistachios,prunes,raisins and walnuts. Hope you won't miss them!! Calif. is the nation's number one dairy state. We're keeping our dairy products. We'll need plenty of fresh ones since our refrigerators can't be relied upon. GOT MILK!! We Californians are going to keep all our high-tech software in state as well. Silicon Valley is ours,after all. Without enough electricty,which your apparently keeping for yourselves,we just plain don't have enough software to spare. And we are keeping all our airplanes. California builds a good percentage of the commercial airliners available to fly you people to where you want to go. When yours wear out you'd better hope Boeing's Washington plant can keep you supplied. There isn't enough electricity here to allow us to export any more planes...we need them ourselves. And while we're at it,we're keeping all our high-tech aerospace stuff too,like the sophisticated weapons systems that let you sleep at night knowing that you won't wake up under the rule of some foreign kook. Oh,yeah,and if you want to make a long-distance call,remember where the satelllite components and tracking systems come from. Maybe you could get back in the habit of writing letters.
