I'll preface my comments by saying that I know Robert Ford, the state senator who submitted this bill. Fortunately, I live one block outside of his district so he is NOT my state senator.

As has been noted in the many posts, Ford is an idiot. He's also running for governor next year, so he obviously submitted this bill to try to get support from the bible belters. The bill has been sent to committee, which is about as close to death as a bill can get in the SC Senate. Ford also has a long history of submitting stupid bills that never get passed.

I give it very little chance of even getting to a vote, but I can assure everyone that as a member of the South Carolina Libertarian Party and a member of the Libertarian National Committee I will do everything I can to make sure that this piece of trash isn't passed.

Of course saying that just identified me (30 seconds with google and you can figure out who I am), but who cares!

PDP1134

Where the heck do you live? Two cents per KWH? And only another penny after the first 800KWH? That's about a fifth of the price we pay. I'd put up one of those things (maybe on the roof of the apartment building???) for nine cent power. I turn off machines in the summer and power everything up in the winter. The cost of running them is too high at nearly ten cents/KWH. You might want to consider renting out space for a server farm... :)