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To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (44535)	12/6/2000 2:12:21 PM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 436258

Doing well, thanks ... For a diversified electric utility -- gas is the marginal resource -- if the utility has managed well -- there may be no need for an increase, even if costs have increased some it is those regions where some of the baseload is met by gas generation and/or there are significant transmission cosntraints that are going to be hurt (speaking of residential customers) -- res customers don't see the marginal price -- they see average prices, but the same is not true of numbers of industrial customers that made special deals -- that looked really good before -- giving them access to marginal costs and removing the burden of "over-allocated" fixed costs