Now You Know -Why Puerto Rico Can't Get Energy Quickly /and calls San Juan Mayor "Nasty"

If you, like us, have been wondering why the estimates to restore power to the entire island of Puerto Rico are as crazy as 6 months' time, this article points out why. Basically, Puerto Rico gets just 2 percent of its power from renewable sources, and the rest from fossil fuels. That's a Lesson for the rest of the U.S. and the world.
   MEANWHILE, PRES. TRUMP SAYS "PUERTO RICO WANTS EVERYTHING DONE FOR THEM"  -And Trump has now called the mayor of San Juan "Nasty."

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump launched an attack on San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz on Saturday for criticizing the White House's hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico, accusing her of "poor leadership" and suggesting that the island's residents are not doing enough to help themselves. "The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump," the President tweeted from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he is spending the weekend. "... Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort."

Here's the article about the Power situation: 

PUERTO RICO’S COLONIAL LEGACY DOOMED IT TO DIRTY ELECTRICITY — AND NOW DARKNESS

The Suomi NPP satellite generated this "before/after" image of visible lights in #PuertoRico early this morning (9/25/17) vs. (7/24/17)

The storm-ravaged island gets just 2 percent of its power from renewable sources, and that may not change anytime soon. 

Forty-seven percent of the power the troubled Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority generates is from burning oil ― one of the most polluting and least efficient sources of electricity. An additional 51 percent of Puerto Rico’s energy blend comes from a mix of coal and natural gas. Just 2 percent was drawn from renewable sources last year.

The utility’s dependence on imported fossil fuels has devoured funding that could have been spent on upgrading the island’s grid and building cleaner infrastructure, a sign of years of mismanagement and incompetence. But it also stems from a colonial history in which Puerto Rico’s development was put in the hands of a few mainland corporate interests seeking tax breaks.

Now the debt-strangled island finds itself in the grip of Wall Street creditors who hold much of the $74 billion in municipal debt racked up over the past few decades. And under the Trump administration, which denies climate change is a concern and has dismissed the need for clean energy, Puerto Rico’s hopes for a greener grid after power is restored seem dim.

PREPA declared bankruptcy in July, but its problems began years earlier. Puerto Rico suffers four to five times more blackouts than an average U.S. state, despite paying the country’s second-highest electricity rates after Hawaii, at nearly 20 cents per kilowatt hour. The utility operates in what Slate called a “permanent state of triage.”

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