California is predicting rolling blackouts due to a nuclear plant being offline, why don't they just?

Why not build a coal fired plant and be done with it?

1. Wind power is expensive, California is beyond broke. 2. Every time California tries to erect a new wind or solar farm environmental groups block it.

Better yet, get nuclear powered hamsters to run in a wheel and collect that energy.

Windmills would have to cover a great portion of the state in order to make up for that power.

Wind power doesn't work.Did you know Germany is getting rid of their wind turbines?

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June 13, 2011..Crony Capitalism and Obama's Anti-Coal Crusade Barack Obama has long sought to bankrupt the coal industry. But, Cook County politician that he is and always will be, the relevant question is: who benefits from his plans wreck a major portion of our economy while also boosting electricity prices across America? A clue: he and his pals from Chicago have incestuous ties to the one company whose prospects will be boosted by Obama's policies. While Barack Obama has broken many promises he made along the campaign trail to the Oval Office, one promise seems close to whatever heart he may have: to bankrupt the coal industry. He told the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle on January 17, 2008 of his plans: "So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted." That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches. The only thing I've said with respect to coal, I haven't been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it. So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.It's just that it will bankrupt them. He also promised that under his plans to transform the energy industry "electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket." While he failed in Congress to pass the cap-and-trade bill that would have been a direct assault on the coal industry (Democrats from coal-mining states, such as Senator Jay Rockefeller from West Virginia joined with Republicans to derail these efforts) and that would have ineluctably led to his goal of sending utility bills soaring, Obama (as is his wont) has used indirect means at his disposal to circumvent Congress and kill off coal. This is his modus operandi: take steps behind the scenes that the media will not disclose to bully his programs to fruition. He has used his executive power to seal off vast areas of federal land from coal mining. But it is primarily through the use of his regulatory empire (the number of federal regulations has skyrocketed under his administration) that he has put a chokehold not only on the coal mining industry but also on utilities that burn coal to generate electricity. And, incidentally, this will put a chokehold on Americans trying to balance their budgets (of course, Obama doesn't care about balancing budgets -- such a concept is foreign to him; were it so for us). Lisa Jackson, the head of the EPA, has been her point person in driving this agenda. Her most recent and dramatic step has been to pass environmental regulations to make coal-fired generating plants that produce about half the nations' electricity, much more expensive to operate. The Chicago Tribune reports: Consumers could see their electricity bills jump an estimated 40 to 60 percent in the next few years. The reason: Pending environmental regulations will make coal-fired generating plants, which produce about half the nation's electricity, more expensive to operate. Many are expected to be shuttered. The increases are expected to begin to appear in 2014, and policymakers already are scrambling to find cheap and reliable alternative power sources. If they are unsuccessful, consumers can expect further increases as more expensive forms of generation take on a greater share of the electricity load. Already, prices for electricity are jumping at a time our economy and consumers can least afford more blows. But there are also those who would benefit from such plans and they include people and companies quite close to President Obama.

No. This would be a good opportunity to provide jobs. You put a whole bunch of liberals in a really big wheel that is designed to run off of the energy of the human spirit. If you stop moving, you're fired.

California is the easiest place to find a job.