Another symptom of the problem

People expect too much from government.

Government is not here to pay for your child care, make sure you get health coverage, guarantee the safety of your car, house, boat or whatever other toy or vehicle you want to buy.

All of the controls and regulatory agencies are the result of people whining and complaining to politicians who want to get elected. So what do they do? They pass laws that infringe upon our liberties and rights all for the sake of "protecting us". The problem is that the more you meddle with a system, like the free market, the more you have to meddle to undo the effects of the previous meddling.

For instance the laws and regulations involved in building a power plant, particularly nuclear power plants are quite steep, not to mention truly needed things like oil refineries, but let me continue. Obviously no one wants a Chernobyl incident. No one wants their kid to come out with extra appendages and no one wants an oil refinery pumping toxic chemical waste into your local fishing hole. But the restrictions have cut off the sanity.

CA is huge. People are everywhere. If you've been to So-Cal in the last few years I'm sure you've noticed that you never really leave the city. It goes on forever. So, naturally they have a power problem. When the infrastructure and power supply don't increase as fast as the demand, you have a problem.

Read about the latest solution.

In a free market, there would be two new nuclear power plants supplying most of So-Cal. As it is they are sucking up power from... Palo Verde nuclear plant. The problem now is that AZ is needing more and more of what PV is producing and the result?

The government controls the temperature in YOUR house.

Government big enough to do anything FOR you, is big enough to do anything TO you.