"California Syndrome." They use more electricity per capita than any other state, but they don't want no nasty power plants. Oh and they expect it to be cheap, too.
Virginian, you are as wrong as wrong can be. Of all the states and the District of Columbia, California's per capita use of electricity ranks number 51, lowest in the country. Wyoming is number 1 and uses more than four times the per capita kwh as does California. Virginia uses more than twice the kwh per capita as does California. Louisiana uses almost triple the per capita kwh as does California. As for the cost of that electricity, we would like it to be cheap, but we no longer have any expectation that it will be cheap. Cost per kwh in California is the fourth highest in the country, behind only New York, Alaska, and Hawaii. California generates more electricity per year than any states except Texas and Pennsylvania, and I'd bet that most Texas kwh are from oil plants and most Pennsylvania kwh are from coal plants. California's production is a whole lot cleaner than either of those.
Citations follow, but if you want to mouth off about stuff, at least get your facts somewhat straight. California is so screwed up in so many ways that I have lost count and lost all hope for recovery in my lifetime. But electricity usage is not one of those problems. Your comment is not only factually wrong, it is completely irrelevant to the issue of lead smelting and production. It is uninformed opinion at this level that gets guys like Obama elected and re-elected.
http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/us_per_capita_electricity-2010.htmlhttp://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_6_ahttp://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/state/
