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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611

The reason california has an energy crisis is because they havnt built a power plant in that state in decades, yet the state has grown like crazy. The power grid is now obsolete. And the environmentalists would rather people sit in the dark than build another power plant.

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

For those that think this sort of thing won't happen, go take a look at toilets and shower heads.  You can't buy either item in this country legally that isn't low flow.  Thanks to politicians out west, we all are forced to take showers with no water pressure, and sometimes flush the toilet 2 or 3 times to get it empty. 

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Hate to say this, but in California we use low flow shower and toilets because we have limited water in our state, and a significant amount of the water we do have (that could otherwise be used to flush our crap) is used to grow food for the rest of you people.

Your state is using them is because the foreign companies who run things like Wal-Mart and Home Depot dont want to import two different items from Indonesia or China for different states, so they import the lowest common denominator that can be sold in the US and sell it everywhere.

Blaming this on something California did is profoundly obtuse.

Sinergy

p.s.  ok, that was mean.  I apologize on the part of the state of California for having to use a large amount of our water to feed the rest of you people, forcing you all to use low flow toilets.  I am more than happy to stop feeding you in order for you to use 4 gallons to flush your shit instead of 1.5.

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Y'all can keep expanding your cities without a thought in the world towards public transportation.

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We got Niagara Falls (well, half of it) while you got stuck with the San Andreas Fault. Good pick there. Enjoy your trip into the Pacific ocean. We were here before you so from New Yo

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This shows your extreme ignorance of plate tectonics and how they work. California is on a strike/slip fault... it isn't falling off into anything...

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Oh yeah, California’s strawberries suck!

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Oh yeah, California’s strawberries suck!

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

Well Sinergy, you're wrong.  It's a federal law that mandates it, and that law was introduced by western congressmen because of your water shortages. 

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

California could not maintain that economy if it broke off from the rest of the nation.  If you want to know what pisses the rest of us off about California, I will tell you.  I don't hate California, nor am I jealous.  I think it's a beautiful state.  But y'all want to maintain your lifestyles without chipping in.  Y'all use more gasoline than then the rest of us, but you refuse to allow off shore drilling.  Y'all use more water than most of us, and you take water from other states.  But, you try to ram your water conservation down the rest of our throats. 

I am not promoting the wasting of water.  I simply want to take a shower that I used to be able to take.  Do you remember those old showers?  I want to own a toilet that functions effectively; there is nothing effective or efficient about having to flush a toilet 2 or 3 times. 

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Does it feel good to be hateful?

Right after my Daddy and I got together we were at a Restaurant that was on a pier between San Diego and LA. It was mid summer, yet there was a slight chill in the air, but there were outdoors heaters so one could look out at the ocean and the waves crashing on to the shore. It was near sunset, the light was just right, and one could see a few surfers doing there thing... a truly Golden California day. I said to him "How could anyone hate this state?" His response, "The reason they hate us is all around you, we have access to all of this." He gestured to the beach and the ocean... I knew he was right. You hate us because you are jealous. The reason people move here in droves (moreso than any other state mind you) is because they want a piece of the California dream.

I grew up near Yosemite National Park. I grew up near the redwoods and the Giant Sequoias. I loved my childhood, I love this state, and I have been to over a dozen others. There are things that I long to see other places... like the Fall in New England, but I have no desire to live in any other state. I have lived in two others... Oregon and Wyoming.... they just did not have what California offers.

I am a 4th generation Californian. My family homesteaded in what is now Yosemite. I have distinct pride in this state, and I think all people have pride in their homes. Why you and others insist on bashing us could only be because you hate your home and secretly long to live here, or you are just hateful... don't care which

And if your hateful comments are meant to be funny, someone needs to teach you about humor.

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Hey now Marc, you're talking about beth's home turf. Driving to her neck of the woods and I passed hundreds of miles of strawberries. They may suck by they time they get to the east coast - but getting them fresh here they can't be beat. Oh yeah - and I can get them today, picked by "undocumented workers", ripe and sweet! The strawberries NOT the workers, but, so inclined, I can get them too at the local Home Depot parking lot.

However if your comment was directed to Californian 'strawberry blonds'; I'd agree based upon personal experience - but that's a negative comment?