Guess that Leonel Fernandez was just expecting to win and thereafter slack and do C... for the country.

Is sad that PLD will be competing in the near future with the PRD in terms of corruption, mediocrity and 3rld world country acting.

Did ANYONE have any doubt that the promise of shorter/no blackouts was just a bunch of government bull---- ?? I can't believe that the people haven't stormed the Presidential Palace and knocked out every stupid light in that building. The people have to make the President feel their wrath. Burning tires and leaving trash in the streets only fouls their own neighborhood and gives the local residents a headache. Give LF a constant headache until he finally gives in, digs into his deep deep deep pockets, and settles this thing once and for all. The fact that this has been going on for decades it outrageous. The government seems to have plenty od pesos for lining the pockets of LF's political hacks. How about, just once, actually spending the PEOPLE'S MONEY on taking care of the people ?????

dont throw in the towel Rubi .....we need your positive vibes

Hey we just had blackouts in Canada!

Shut up!

This must be a photo of a power plant somewhere in the middle-east/asia because there seems to be a building that resembles a mosqe in the lower right of the photo.

Yes it is probably full of desert people as we speak

Let me guess.....
Those people burning tires and blocking streets......They probably don't pay for their electricity.

1) THAT PICTURE IS NOT OF ANYTHING IN THE DR, its somewhere in the middle east, plust the water is clean.

2) I am shocked yes shocked that there is no electricity sind the CDE through its mouthpiece Rahadmes Segura claimed that it was only shortlived.

face it the people in the DR are being royaly screwed.

Yes .. it looks like a mosque alright .. Osama Bin Laden might be praying in there .. call in air support .. bomb the bloody thing to shreds .. then we bomb the mosques in Jersey .. plenty of muslims there .. how about that huh boys? how about we got out and kill a few muslims today huh? the fewer muslims the better right, huh? it would make you feel good would it not, huh? No more listening to "Allah hu Akhbar" .. no more "muazzim" .. After all, they could never get back at us right away now, could they, huh? It's not exactly like attacking the Russians or Chinese who have long range nuclear missiles .. who could obliterate our cities .. even our slums .. so let's go ahead and have some fun .. how about returning later to cluster bomb the kids as they run terrified from the collapsing mosque huh? that would be fun would it not?

GC:

LOL...................

Positivie greetings too buddy..........

Someone in the press should call out this clown Segura and remind him of his incredibly stupid comment. Did anyone actually think he knew what he was talking about?

The bourgeoisie in the DR energy industry is too lazy, immoral, and stupid to solve the perennial problem electrical shortages.

Nicaragua and Cuba, where the proletariat has a voice, were once plagued by blackouts.

In Cuba, workers running the energy system have eliminated the blackouts while the bourgeoisie in the DR continues the whine, snivel, and pass the buck to others for its failure to generate or distribute enough energy.

In Nicaragua, blackouts have not been eliminated, but everybody rejoices over the dramatic reduction in the number and the durations of blackouts that still occur. In the DR, the number and durations of blackouts seem to be increasing.

Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadineyad has signed a deal to build $320 million dam in Nicaragua to generate electricity. The project is now in feasibility and environmental impact studies stage.

The DR should kick the slimy and money-snatching bourgeoisie out of the energy business and let energy workers run it

nonsense.................you stooge

The DR and foreign bourgeoisie in the energy industry can't even keep the lights on ... a simple task, although the bourgeois state in Santo Domingo has given bourgeois parasites in the energy business generous subsidies for over a year.

Still bourgeois parasites in the energy industry pass the buck for their failures to the bourgeois state or to business rivals or to other sectors of the energy industry or to anything that's handy.

Ending blackouts is not something complex that requires rocket scientists.

More than anything else, ending blackouts depends on getting rid of conspicuous technical screw-ups and immoral money-snatchers who improperly participate in problem-solving and decision-making for the electrical system.

Horse Puckey ...SOON after Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in 1959, goes an old Cuban joke, the signs at the Havana zoo that read “Please do not feed the animals” were changed to “Please do not take the animals’ food”. When the Soviet Union crumbled and withdrew its aid to Cuba, triggering the so-called “special period” that began in the early 1990s, times became even harder and the joke changed. The new signs, so the story went, begged visitors not to eat the animals.

- Cubans are reacting to frequent power outages by openly voicing their resentment of the ruling elite when they meet in the streets.

"Those of us at the bottom are the ones suffering," said one woman, who added, "I'm going to say this and I'm not afraid: the director of the power company is a fat cat whose name is Rolando Catalá. Do you know where he lives? In a place where the power never goes out. The other higher-ups live there too, near a factory that's never affected by blackouts. The big chiefs had a line run from there to the building where they live, and they're never without power. What a way to be a communist!

The woman was reacting to 14-plus-hour blackouts in the province of Pinar del Río. She pointed to an infant she was carrying: "Look at this child, how he looks, between the heat and the mosquito-bites. Where I live the power has been going out every day and I haven't slept in two days, trying to fan the mosquitoes away from him. And all for nothing, look at him, he's all mosquito-bite. To top it all, they won't tell us what the problem is. I think we are going through another Special Period and they are just afraid to tell us."

The woman was referring to the Special Period, the years after the collapse of the Soviet bloc left the Cuban economy in shambles

A young woman stopped to say: "What's happening is they know things are getting tight for Chávez in Venezuela, and they are starting to save oil already. We are going to lose the Venezuelan crude, and that they can't tell the people."

"They are fooling the people," said a young man who works for a messenger service. "Nobody slept in my house last night. They cut the power at 5 p.m. and didn't reestablish it until 5 a.m. Then we had power for a few hours and off again it was."

A call to the power company only yielded the information that the province is limited to a generating capacity of 50 megawatts.

No one pays the bills , there is no accountability! if everyone paid the bills would be lower and the power would be on, investing in step down transformers and changing the lines from 110 would save substancialy on wasted amprage and make power theft unweildly. But of course the Dominican way will win out, patch it up and ride it into the ground....

Just letting gassious colostomy know, I saw several big shiny rockets streaking towards the east a few hours ago so you can bet there are a few less dirt worshiping heathens this morning :)

One Cuban young woman complains to another. "He lied to me! He told me that he was a luggage handler! It turns out, he's nothing but a neurosurgeon!"

GC
Not the same joke....again ! .....I'm reminded again and again that GREEN is the way to go threw Solar and wind, when will we learn. ?

"I'm reminded again and again that GREEN is the way to go threw Solar and wind, when will we learn. ? "

Oh yea Solar. That magical solution.

Do you have any clue how much solar costs?

Another thing What do you do when the sun goes down? What do you do when it is cloudy?
Do you think you can just store electricity that easy?
The only way to store Electricity is with Batteries. I don't think there is enough available land in the DR to hold all the batteries you would need.
The Same with Wind. Also there are only a few places in the DR where wind is viable.

No problem .. we will use the hot air coming out of your mouth to generate the steam for turning our power plant turbines .. for wind we will just stand behind you .. yes solar is expensive .. but we can cover part of the cost by selling you on eBay .. problem solved ..

Sang soon the darkness will be coming ....How is your planta is it ready for the weeks ahead many many hours of darkness ahead...I am praying to cardinal Nicky to keep up the good work and keep the light shining down on me

What you really need is a blundering idiot with an infinite torrent of hot plasma blasting from his large smelly trap .. hook him up to a boiler and send the jet of pressurized steam into the turbine impellers .. the darn things roll and the torque is converted to KW load .. there .. you got your power running through the grid ..

The green Jumbo bottles are doing great .. solar was off and on .. so I used the on and off KW from Ede Este to recharge the batteries .. switching back and forth between their juice and mine as the need arose .. that's just for desktop use .. I also have 3 fully charged laptop units in case of a serious nuclear exchange between the US and CHINA .. I am ready for armageddon ..

I dont care if it rains or freezes as long as i got Nicky for a neighbor

Children should be seen and not heard.