Socialist Hugo Chavez Rations Electricity

January 3, 2010
By 3 comments

Utopia – ain’t it nice?

Breitbart: Oil-rich Venezuela ushered in 2010 with new measures rationing electricity use in malls, businesses and billboards, as Hugo Chavez’s government aimed to save power amid a crippling drought.

The new regulations came into effect January 1, with businesses required to comply with reduced consumption limits and authorities warning of forced power cuts and rate hikes if the measures are not followed.

A decree published on Christmas Eve states that commercial centers may operate from 11:00 am to 9:00 pm on the electricity grid, but beyond that establishments would have to operate off-grid, using their own generators.

Venezuela is flush with oil — the country’s primary export — and natural gas, but relies mainly on hydroelectric generation to meet domestic energy demand.

With the country in a widespread drought, late last year Chavez announced a sweeping campaign to reduce widespread energy “waste,” stressing that rationing was necessary to avoid a systemic “collapse.” ……

Think it can’t happen here?

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3 Responses to Socialist Hugo Chavez Rations Electricity

  1. mickey on January 3, 2010 at 4:56 pm

    Scott Brown is a good conservative candidate. Massachusetts needs to get back to its political roots. I am not talking kennedy, I am talking Adams. With the election of Scott Brown, we can take away their 60th vote in the Senate and keep the Tea party ball rolling. We already took Virginia and New Jersey, wouldn’t Massachusetts just tick off the liberals even more.
    The Dems kept this seat by changing the law that kennedy helped create, then reverse; Karma says we need to take it back.

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  2. Sam Adams on January 3, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    Rationing?

    That would NEVER happen here!

    When will peeps WAKE UP!

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    • michigan on January 3, 2010 at 6:36 pm

      LOL! Exactly Sam. Rationing in the early seventies happened literally overnight. I think gas went to an astronomical 44 cents per gallon and we had odd and even fuel days, depending on the last digit of your license plate; then onward to 55 mph national speed laws. Perpetually seeking for crisis, Obama salivates at the possibility of doing all that and more again.

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