Why is Big Oil is more influential in California than Texas

[Alberto Monteiro]

Nick Arnett wrote:
> 
> And this page --
> http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/wind_power/index.html -- says 
> a multi-billion-dollar transmission upgrade is necessary to get the 
> electricity from the best locations to the Southern California cities.
> 
It's hard to believe that the USA is not totally covered with
transmission lines. Brazil, about the size of the connected 
component of the USA + 1/2 Alaska, is almost entirely connected 
(such that a pane in a transmission line 5000 km away causes a 
blackout here... or so they say).

BTW, recently ethanol replaced hydro as the 2nd most important
energy source here.

Alberto Monteiro