How Is The Government Handling The Power Crisis?

[Iznogud]

(Kapitanich's voice) What crisis? (Kapitanich's voice)

 

[ARbound]

ENERGÍA ELECTRICA
La deuda del diario La Nación con la AFIP equivale al alquiler semanal de generadores para 53.000 familias

Los 330 millones de pesos que el diario le adeuda a la AFIP equivale al alquiler de generadores eléctricos para 5.300 edificios de vivienda por 10 días. Una medida cautelar impide que el organismo cobre esa suma.


At first I thought this might be a joke then I remembered we live in Venezuela Jr. so it's just how things go. What government, ANYWHERE, says it's a good idea to buy generators? How about investing that money in to building power infrastructure? While we're at it let's blame Clarín, US Embassy, PRO, UCR, Macri, FAP, UK occupation of the Falklands, The Vulture Funds, etc.

How about K-ristina and Krew converting their millions of USD in to pesos? Oh wait, never mind, it's ALWAYS someone else's fault in Argentina.

http://www.telam.com...0-familias.html

 

[Ries]

For 30 years now, Europe and to a lesser degree, the USA, has been encouraging energy efficiency as a way to use less power.
The US government subsidizes zero interest loans to improve energy efficiency, in terms of better windows and doors, insulation, more efficient heating and cooling systems, less water consumption, and so on.

The single LEAST efficient way to cool buildings in a city like Buenos Aires would be to make cheap knockoffs of korean air conditioners (noblex, anyone) and then tack literally millions of small, inefficient models all over every single building.
Central air, of course, is much cheaper in the long run, both to install and to run. But it requires consorcios agreeing, something that will never happen here.

Is it any wonder there are blackouts?

The exact same btu's of cooling could probably be done with 2/3 the electricity, if there was a rational building code, and central air, or at least fewer units and some national program to study efficiency of cooling.

Luckily, the good restaurants have generators.

 

[franksredhots]

what power crisis? i got my ac on full blast and im drinking ice cold water. first thing in the morning im going to take a dip in the heated pool. you guys are exagerating. as usual.

 

[Jaredberryman]

Exaggerating. All day today my apartment in Caballito had no electricity. All day. Some others are experiencing worse. And since there is no electricity, that means no water. Nearly all of Caballito was like that today. The shopping Village Caballito was blacked out!!! Unbelievable.

 

[franksredhots]

caballito? pffft. serves you right.

 

[ARbound]

what power crisis? i got my ac on full blast and im drinking ice cold water. first thing in the morning im going to take a dip in the heated pool. you guys are exagerating. as usual.

This is what I imagine Cristina and Macri saying "Let the plebs melt".

 

[arlean]

Rich one, interesting point about Cuba. Of course I don't believe everything I read but I am amazed at China moving toward capitalism. They found out socialism (at least to the totalitarian degree) didn't work and that the western capitalism did, so they are moving back that way and it is paying off. When I say capitalism I don't mean corporatism and fascism (government by heads of corporations that have moved into government and are making the rules) An Argentina acquaintance attended some free classes here where the woes of the world were blamed on "capitalism" and everything should be run by the non self-serving government. I had a time explaining that capitalism is not what she thought. Someone said we need to see free market capitalism instead because of all the confusion now in redefining capitalism. Capitalism is when a man (or woman) saves up their capital and invests their capital in an enterprise and makes it become productive, perhaps eventually provides jobs and so on. It isn't what we see predominant in America today.

 

[arlean]

Back on subject (giggle) I didn't now the government WAS handling the crisis. Hmmm . . . .

 

[John.St]

OP: How Is The Government Handling The Power Crisis?

Well, are they?
- beyond blaming everybody else, that is.