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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (80627)	12/4/2000 10:01:01 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Bearcatbob, I used to serve on the Board of Directors of the Greater Houston Partnership about ten years ago, their Chamber of Commerce. I cannot tell you what "poison" economically it is to have problems in your basic industries (chemical, steel, energy, power, water, etc.) for any State. We met about five weeks ago with Terry Winter CEO of Cal ISO over in Sacramento. Terry said that Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco told him that when there's environmental problems, that his office receives about 2000 calls on an issue. Last summer when power was pulled in the Bay Area for a while, he said that his office received over 200,000 phone calls. Message received by San Francisco's leadership. Suddenly transmission lines, sub- and and generating stations look like objects d'art. So yes, California's leadership is painfully aware of the indirect damage that this power crisis does to the business atmosphere in their State and is moving to alleviate it. Appropriating US $2b of public money for public power projects is one of the first suggestions.... Many more are being surfaced and Cal ISO is also hard at work on transmission congestion problems...generating problems are a little harder to solve, partly because previously California could import power from power exporting States likes to the Northwest and Arizona and Nevada. Of course Nevada and Arizona have monster population/ economic growth rates (Numbers 1 and 2 in the nation) and are now absorbing much of its own power production internally. Plus there's a goofy legal decision that just came down that declared Arizona's retail access deregulation program unconstitutional, that could potentially inhibit power flows from AZ to CA for a while anyway til things are sorted out....