When OPE meets NIMBY

This article is a bit late to publication, but it is timely nevertheless.

It describes an almost iconic real-world event that perfectly illustrates what happens when government slips out of the reach of the people and so rigidizes even the construction of essential public utilities that major dislocations in public services begin to appear everywhere, wreaking havoc and huge costs.

With the steam engine of forced Socialization of our society getting ready to run over us all - not just "healthcare" mind you, but a crushing regulatory burden to make captives of us all - perhaps we could use a reminder from 2003 when the largest electric power outage in history occurred in California, for what proved to be totally avoidable reasons. The problems that led up to the outage were clear to everyone for years before it happened, but nobody seemed to be able to do anything to prevent the inevitable. It's a kind of "Titanic"story, without the love interest. Here was a "ship" that everyone knew was doomed, but nobody could or would do anything to stop it.

That is where we are headed now, unless we can derail this train.