Rick & Bonnie....

Thank you both for the urgently important service you are providing for us. I believe an uninformed public is a very vulnerable public. Our only hope is information and truth.

I found this article on the connection between natural gas and electricity....I'm interested in comments as to it's validity...

http://www.webpal.org/report.htm

thanks again for the sacrifices you guys make to keep this forum here.

LindaO

-- Anonymous, January 27, 1999

Answers

LindaO,

I can't attest to the documents validity but what a document!

I believ it's up there in the must read category. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

-- Anonymous, January 27, 1999

Linda, with any direct-line pipe system, it's simply common sense to acknowledge that if there is a problem or stoppage in one section, then the sections further along will be impacted, too. You can't throw a switch and re-route oil or gas if there's no alternative route to begin with.

Last October there was a thread on this forum which addressed pipeline interruptions, except both oil and gas pipelines were talked about. Do a search for "paraffin" and you'll get the "What about the oil pipeline?" thread I'm talking about. You'll discover that to keep paraffin deposition from slowing or stopping up oil pipelines, the most popular process now used requires a source of electricity. A local area outage could therefore impact oil delivery to other areas, even if those other areas did have power.

Turn the water on in a garden hose, step on a middle part of the hose, or bend it, and what happens at the other end? This was an analogy I heard used many years ago during a severely cold winter when there was a shortage of natural gas. Warnings were put out by television and radio asking (and later practically begging) customers to turn their thermostats down as far as possible so that those homeowners on the "end of the distribution line" would be able to get at least *some* heat.

I personally experienced the problems during that winter shortage. I remember clearly the anguish of those trying to stay warm. Maybe accepting the myriad possible disruptions Y2K might bring is easier if you're old enough to remember times when the distribution systems had severe problems - even when that system was in perfect working order!

Since the possibility of Year 2000 disruptions is global in scope and could impact every infrastructure area, I find it very difficult to understand why most people automatically "trust" that they will not be affected. I've been huddled in a bed trying to keep four little children warm, wondering how many days before we could have heat. This time I'm prepared and my children are prepared. Taking chances is a game I don't want to play. Been there. Done that. Learned.

-- Anonymous, January 27, 1999

I agree, Steve, this document goes into the must read category, as I believe it provides some specific confirmation to Infomagic's premis in his article Charlotte's Web.

-- Anonymous, January 27, 1999