These power alerts have become frequent in recent days, but there haven't been any blackouts, at least not yet, so it sounds as though authorities are crying wolf. One of the things that has been impressed upon Californians is to conserve electricity. Don't turn on that extra light. The people of California generally conserve electricity. This state is number 47 in the nation in terms of per capita electrical use.
Folks here are fairly thrifty about electricity anyway.
What the people of California believe and the polls show is a tremendous amount of resentment toward the utilities and toward the state government for allowing this deregulation to occur, essentially blaming deregulation for this electrical shortage. Pages will open in a new browser window External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. An AOL Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.