Global Economics and our Electricity

 

Since we have been back from the US I have noticed that we rarely have the electricity go off in the afternoon like we were having before we left.  I mentioned something to Benedict about this.  Apparently with the economic troubles in the world, the price of copper has gone way down.  So a couple of the big copper mines in the north have closed down.  Because those mines used so much electricity, there is now more electricity to go around so they don't have to do "load shedding."  It means that in this case we benefit, and have electricity almost all of the time.