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From: t4texas	4/15/2007 9:55:46 PM
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how can tom friedman say electricity use in california per person in the past 30 years has remained basically flat while the rest of the usa's electricity use has gone up 50%? i don't have the data. does anyone here have data on this claim? if you want to hear friedman make this claim, you have to go the the new york times homepage. about 1/3 down the page you will see Week in Review, and Magazine is one of the stills with friedman's picture on it. click on that and at about the 2:37 mark of the 6 minute video he makes this electricity claim. i personally found this beyond belief, but i am prepared to be wrong. is friedman torturing the data to get it to say what he wants, or is friedman's claim what a reasonable man would figure his statement means? ca has been business unfriendly in the past 30 years and a lot of industry that does manufacturing has moved out to other states and other countries. could this be the way the data can be skewed to friedman's claim? as any engineer/scientist/professor would say, ceteris paribus, i.e., all other factors being equal, well i don't think all other factors have remained equal between ca and the rest of the usa in electricity demand and use in the past 30 years. nytimes.com

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