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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (47734)	7/11/1999 12:26:00 AM
From: WWS	Respond to of 95453

K., your explanation makes sense to me, as it can resolve the glaring discrepancy of reported coal/gas statistics between the MacPherson article and the on-line usage table that I found on the DOE site. Output per plant (in both coal and gas plants) could have been going up each of the four years in absolute terms. But if no new coal plants were built and many new SMALLER capacity gas plants were built during the four years after deregulation, then the AVERAGE output per plant would go UP for coal and DOWN for gas. And all this could be occurring while the 10 year metatrend for ngas was up 5%, and down 4% for coal, between 1988 and 1997. Thanks for your insight, and if what you think to be the case is, then I totally agree with your conclusion that it was a "pretty misleading article, but can be technically correct."