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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (35720)	12/9/2000 12:32:47 PM
From: sandeep	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

FWIW, I saw a pile of votes being counted. Bush got 4, Gore got 1. Maybe even with this wildness, Bush might still win. I would love to see Gore's face if and when that happens.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (35720)	12/9/2000 1:57:23 PM
From: Mosko	Respond to of 50167

I just wanted to pop in to get your opinion on a topic concerning energy costs and inflation that has been troubling me. Although the price of oil has been dropping recently, the price of energy here in the US has been on the rise. Perhaps this is a crisis for the west coast only, but the supply of electricity has gotten dangerously low here, and with deregulation prices have skyrocketed. I live in the Northwest, and just last week Georgia Pacific shut down a paper mill in Bellingham because their per unit price of electricity had gone from $35 to $400 in a year. They could no longer make a profit with these costs. Under the current cold conditions California is expecting rolling blackouts next week. The utilities are scrambling to buy electricity at exorbitant prices on the open market. By law they cannot raise retail rates over a certain percentage. A few of these utilities will have to seek chapter 11 debt relief. This situation is expected to worsen over the summer months next year, and will remain a problem for years to come. This is bound to affect the cost of operations (not to mention interruptions) for both technology and nontech such as manufacturing and agriculture production. Comments anyone? Mosko

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (35720)	12/9/2000 5:07:35 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

<<Premature, I doubt that this 4-3 will stay, just wait.. >> This was today morning, I knew it coming I foresaw it and that is something I will take full credit off.. pre-news analysis not post news events.. On 17 th Nov I wrote don't play with Scalia, Clarence and Rehnquist, O'connors, I said the mother of all courts will show them the road, this is the genius of Idea thread, who dares win, we do it as no one else, we read things far beyond anyone else would and we can wrong short time but we win the war..these are the judges who did Gore in today, he is history, long live Ronald Reagen revolution and appotments, Rehnquist, Scalia Oconnor's were one of them although Clarence came in later in Bush era.. <<Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Sandra Day O'Connor voted to halt the counts. >> This is the reason that 'Idea thread 'is the best for analysis... <<Premature, I doubt that this 4-3 will stay, just wait.. >>