A blackout in France exposes the shamelessness of Spanish socialism

There is a wise Spanish saying: “the evil of many, the consolation of fools”, which is very appropriate when a misfortune occurs.

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Oscar Puente compares a blackout in Cannes with the blackout in Spain

Yesterday, the city of Cannes, France, and its surrounding areas suffered a major blackout. Taking advantage of the opportunity, and perfectly fulfilling the aforementioned saying, the Spanish Minister of Transport, the socialist Óscar Puente, launched this hoax on Twitter: “It must be renewables… oh no, France doesn’t have any. How can this be?”

Clearly, the minister was trying to take advantage of the blackout in France to avoid criticism for the April 28 blackout in Spain, as if a blackout in one city due to a fire and a national blackout in all of Spain due to a power generation problem were comparable. Óscar Puente is once again taking the Spanish for idiots, knowing that many of us will be unable to reply, since he has blocked half the country on his Twitter account, so that no one can answer him.

The Cannes blackout was due to a fire, not a power generation problem

A few hours after the minister published a message yesterday trying to take advantage of the blackout in France, Alfredo García (@OperadorNuclear), reactor operator and supervisor of a Spanish nuclear power plant, replied to Puente: “It must be knowledge of electrical technology… oh no, the minister doesn’t have it. How can we solve it?”

García added: “France has more installed renewable power (46%) than nuclear power (41%). According to RTE, the French electricity operator, the partial blackout (not total, like the one in Spain on April 28) was not related to the generators or the inertia of the grid, but to a fire in a substation and the fall of a high-voltage tower. The Gendarmerie is investigating whether there was intentionality.” As expected, the minister had already blocked @OperadorNuclear so that he could not reply.

The Cannes blackout lasted less than half as long as the Spanish blackout

In addition to what Alfredo García has indicated, yesterday RTE indicated that the blackout in that area was corrected within 4.5 to 6.5 hours. Let us remember that on April 28, millions of Spaniards were affected by a blackout that in some places lasted more than 12 hours (this is the case in the area where I live, although in some parts of my city they had to wait more than 14 hours).

A city blackout and a blackout across mainland Spain

On the other hand, the blackout of April 28th did not occur in a single city, but in the entire Spanish peninsula, with 43 million inhabitants, since the Balearic and Canary Islands were spared. Furthermore, there were no deaths in the French blackout (this is not mentioned in any of the news I have hidden from media outlets in various countries), while in Spain there were several deaths due to the national blackout. Several deaths and not a single resignation. And they still have the nerve to continue spreading hoaxes and comparing both cases.

In France, the cause was explained in less than 12 hours: in Spain, we are still waiting 27 days later

But if the above differences were not enough, it must be added that in France, the causes of this blackout have been communicated in less than 12 hours. On the contrary, 27 days later in Spain, Pedro Sánchez’s government still has not explained the cause of the blackout on April 28, a period that it has used to spread hoaxes with which to avoid its responsibility for what happened. Yesterday, a British newspaper reported that the blackout could have been due to a government experiment with renewable energy, an experiment for which the Spanish electricity grid was not prepared.

A government desperate to evade responsibility for the April 28 blackout

By now it’s clear that nothing would make the Sánchez government happier than a national blackout in another country, because they could use that as a way of avoiding any responsibility for the Spanish blackout on April 28. For Sánchez and his government, the fact that others could be as negligent and inept as they are would be a relief, because they could thereby convey the pathetic idea that the disastrous effects of socialism in Spain are normal, inevitable, and something we must resign ourselves to. Once again, the evil of many, the consolation of fools… or socialists.

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Photo: Efe. Pedro Sánchez, President of the Spanish Government, with Óscar Puente, Minister of Transport.