Venezuela has the best of both worlds.. abundant oil,.. and abundant green (free) power from hydro,.. all they have to do is maintain the systems and give away the power...
if that isn't easy enough.. they have made a ton of money on oil...
Bus driver turned commie leader.. "hey,.. we can't fix it,. we really don't know how to fix anything".. ,.. but we can blame it on someone,... :shock: :roll:
sure hope Whitewing has a generator and sat phone.. otherwise his cell is gonna get dark and lonely.. :shock: :lol:
if that isn't easy enough.. they have made a ton of money on oil...
CARACAS, Venezuela — With parts of Venezuela still dark after a mysterious blackout that left the capital and 17 states without electricity, President Nicolas Maduro laid the blame on opposition sabotage as his government scrambled to respond to the power failure.
The power shutdown began midday Tuesday after an apparent failure in high voltage transmission lines in Aragua and Guarico states, which led to total outage in several of the country's most populous areas.
Power was restored by early Wednesday to most of metropolitan Caracas, the capital, and a dozen states, according to the government. But by midday, officials in five other states said they were still without power.
Jose Aguilar, a Chicago-based international power systems consultant, said Wednesday that he suspects that the failure resulted from human error combined with the fact that the country's largest power plant, Planta Centro, was operating at only 82% capacity in the hours before the crash.
"The knowledge that the national grid had been unstable for 48 hours leading up to the collapse invites the suspicion that there was some imprudent action taken by the government operators," Aguilar said. He called on the government to conduct a thorough investigation to correct the problems and refrain from "frivolous" political accusations.
Venezuela's power system is plagued by problems caused by a lack of investment and maintenance, critics have charged. But Maduro has countered that the outages are a result of a "low intensity campaign" that is leading up to a "final assault on the revolutionary base."
Maduro said the failure was due to an "electricity coup" engineered by the "extreme right." Claiming he had authorized several new power projects to address shortages
Bus driver turned commie leader.. "hey,.. we can't fix it,. we really don't know how to fix anything".. ,.. but we can blame it on someone,... :shock: :roll:
sure hope Whitewing has a generator and sat phone.. otherwise his cell is gonna get dark and lonely.. :shock: :lol: