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Pastimes : The California Energy Crisis - Information & Forum
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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (1069)1/28/2002 5:16:09 PM
From: Quincy  Read Replies (2) of 1715
 
"However, I am able to distinguish between a meaningful contribution and a hypothetical contribution."

A contribution is a contribution. We will never agree on its size. Fine with me. You are still arrogant in your convictions, oblivious to the obvious and I can diet.

Remember all the generators who had to shut down because they weren't getting paid? Where did that power get replaced from? Hmm... What effect did that have on ratepayers across the nation who compete against California for power contracts?

Energy trading affects power rates for the entire grid.

Davis had barely been in office a year when everyone was happy to blame the electric rate rape on him. Did he cause turbine down times to skyrocket on generators inside his own state? Should Davis have sat on his hands and given Enron/Duke/Dynergy/Sempra the keys to the California vault? How electable would Davis be now if the full brunt of rampant electric rate manipulation had fallen full-force on a state that already ranks in the bottom 2% power consumption per capita? Davis used the only tool he had at his disposal short of taking control of the generators.

Or, was this whole thing an organized Texas-sized political career assassination of a presidential hopeful before facing he can face GW in two years?

Due to cloudy skies denying me 400kw/h from my solar panels last couple of months, 2002 marks the first year I paid my electric bill instead of treating myself to the latest Compaq desktop and a vacation package on American Airlines. Do me a favor and be sure to wave to the former Compaq/American employees standing in unemployment lines around Houston for me.

I'll even let you decide which part to wave.
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