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This just makes me long for the day when I can sit back and enjoy the cool
breeze on the beeches of Arizona bay.


On 4/9/01 7:05 PM, "saundrakaerubel.com" <saundrakae AT saundrakaerubel.com>
wrote:

> 
> "Dear Friends:
> 
> America has engaged in some finger wagging lately because
> California doesn't have enough electricity to meet its needs. The
> rest of the country (including George W. Bush's energy 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's how it really is:
> 
> California ranks 48th in the nation in power consumed per person.
> California grows more than half the nation's fruit, nuts and vegetables.
> 
> We're keeping them. We need something to eat when the power
> goes out. We grow 99 percent or more of the nation's almonds,
> artichokes, dates, figs, kiwifruit, olives, persimmons, pistachios,
> prunes, raisins and walnuts.
> 
> Hope you won't miss them.
> 
> California 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 gonna keep all our high-tech software in state.
> Silicon Valley is ours, after all. Without enough electricity, which
> you're apparently keeping for yourselves, we just plain don't have
> enough software to spare. We're 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 ashington plant can keep you supplied. There isn't
> enough electricity here to allow us to export any more planes than
> we need 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, not worried you might wake up under the
> rule of some foreign kook.
> 
> Oh, yeah, and if you want to make a long-distance call, remember
> where the satellite components and tracking systems come from.
> Maybe you could get back in the habit of writing letters.
> 
> Want to see a blockbuster movie this weekend? Come to California.
> We make them here. Since we'll now have to make them with our own
> electricity, we're keeping them. Even if we shot them somewhere else,
> the labs, printing facilities, editing facilities, and sound facilities
> are all here.
> 
> Want some nice domestic wine? We produce over 17 million gallons
> per year. We'll need all of it to drown our sorrows when we think about
> the fact that no matter how many California products we export to make
> the rest of America's lives better, America can't see its way clear to
> help us out with a little electricity. You can no longer have any of
> our wine.
> 
> You all complain that we don't build enough power plants. Well, you
> don't grow enough food, write enough software, make enough movies,
> build enough airplanes and defense systems or make enough wine.
> 
> This is your last warning, America. Lighten (us) up before it's too
> late.
> Love,
> The Californians "
> 
> (this is a forward, not written by me or mine)
> 
> "I love California - I practically grew up in Phoenix."
> - Dan Quayle
> 
> 
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