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2012-08-06 Africa North

Power Outages, Protests Plague Morsi's Egypt

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Posted by trailing wife 2012-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Spengler gave background a month ago, with his usual graphs: The economics of confrontation in Egypt

Posted by trailing wife 2012-08-06 07:21|| 2012-08-06 07:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Egypt began exporting electricity in about 2006 to Libya and Sudan as a means to get $$$$. They began supplying electricity to Gaza in 2011 or so. The quantities involved aren't much but with the supply demand situation so tight, it might be part of the problem.

However one of the major problems maybe be theft of power from the grid.

Posted by lord garth 2012-08-06 10:18|| 2012-08-06 10:18|| Front Page Top

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