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Kinda feels like this right now
March 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Today in Every Day a New Horror, the chances of power outages here in the PNW is about to astronomically increase, because DOGE is ripping wires out of the walls of our power grid for no fucking reason, of course. Time to buy a generator. Cool cool. via @thestranger.com
Are you paying attention to this? Elon Musk is making huge cuts at the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). What? Isn't that "the backbone of the Northwest power grid." Indeed, it is, and it's being strangled by the hands of DOGE. An important note: BPA was not funded by taxpayers, but ratepayers. So cutting jobs there will have minimal to no impact on the deficit. But the price of the cuts will be huge. We can expect, as two BPA administrators predict, that the staff reduction "will seriously degrade BPA's ability to maintain reliable power service. To make matters worse, before the layoffs, the BPA had something like 50 openings. They needed more workers to ensure the resilience of the grid. And now they have lost a bunch of workers. Though BPA rehired 30 workers, it is still "eliminating about 430 total positions." So, the rehiring means jack. We are fucked. The BPA supplies 75% of PNW's power.
February 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM