Arizona Strikes Back?


I’m changing directions again tonight and discussing the new Arizona illegal immigration law for one post and then plan to return to the Illinois budget. If you read this blog regularly, you already know that I lived in Arizona for a number of years and that I enthusiastically support the new law against illegal immigration.

I heard the following on those ultra conservative radio talk shows starting with Glen Beck while listening in the car. The information was repeated on Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

As you probably know, some leadership in some major cities has condemned the new Arizona law. The city of Los Angeles has called for a boycott of Arizona because of the new law.

Arizona may be striking back! According to the reports, one of the five members of the Arizona Utility Commission wrote a letter to the mayor of Los Angeles. In that letter, he said that if Los Angeles dares to boycott Arizona then Los Angeles should boycott all Arizona products including the electricity that Arizona provides to the city of Los Angeles.

After all, how can the city of Los Angeles accept Arizona electricity when the city is boycotting Arizona? Wouldn’t that be hypocritical to pick and choose what products are being boycotted? By the way, according to the letter according to the commentators, Arizona provides 25% of Los Angeles’ electricity.

Arizona has several nuclear power plants located near Phoenix. According to Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2007 [DVD]. Redmond, Wa: Microsoft, Corporation, 2006; here are the 25 largest nuclear power plants in the United States ranked 1 through 25 as of 2005.

“01) Palo Verde 2—west of Phoenix, AZ
02) South Texas Project 1—south-southwest of Bay City, TX
03) South Texas Project 2—south-southwest of Bay City, TX
04) Palo Verde 3—west of Phoenix, AZ
05) Palo Verde 1—west of Phoenix, AZ
06) Perry 1—northeast of Painesville, OH
07) Grand Gulf 1—south of Vicksburg, MS
08) Wolf Creek 1—northeast of Burlington, KS
09) Byron 1—south-southwest of Joliet, IL
10) Braidwood 1—south-southwest of Joliet, IL
11) Salem 1—south of Wilmington, DE
12) Seabrook 1—south of Portsmouth, NH
13) Vogtle 1—southeast of Augusta, GA
14) Comanche Peak 1—north of Glen Rose, TX
15) Comanche Peak 2—north of Glen Rose, TX
16) Vogtle 2—southeast of Augusta, GA
17) Sequoyah 1—northeast of Chattanooga, TN
18) Millstone 3—west-southwest of New London, CT
19) Susquehanna 2—northeast of Berwick, PA
20) Susquehanna 1—northeast of Berwick, PA
21) Limerick 1—northwest of Philadelphia, PA
22) Limerick 2—south-southwest of Joliet, IL
23) Catawba 1—northwest of Rock Hill, SC
24) Catawba 2—northwest of Rock Hill, SC
25) Callaway—southeast of Fulton, MO

Source: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.”

I post this information for two reasons. First, Arizona has the largest and the fourth and fifth largest nuclear electricity producing plants in the nation. And second, California with all of their tree-hugging “environmentalists” has none in the top 25 nuclear power plants in the nation. If Los Angeles boycotts Arizona, then certainly Los Angeles should refuse to accept Arizona electricity. Do you think? Can you say brownouts!

That’s not all though. Colorado River water flows through Arizona to California. I don’t know if Los Angeles, per se, receives Colorado water but I do know that California does. Do you think California will also refuse Colorado water since it flows through that “racist” State of Arizona?