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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (1405)	1/17/2001 11:13:24 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

If it was up to you and me to sit and hash out any changes made to environmental regulations you would probably get me to agree to more of your ideas if you considered the cost and pushed for reapeal of intrusive expensive regulations even while you push for new smarter or more correctly targeted regulation. I'm not a believer in onerous regulation. I think that when for 100-150 years entire stream basins have been left as stinking metal-sulfide waste pits, that the accounting went terribly wrong. Leases are given, minerals removed, and then the perpetrator goes bust. The taxpayers are left with the bill and the Superfund site. I considered being Libertarian but found I'm not a political libertarian as much as I thought: it is too close to anarchy. The privatization of everything is nicely modeled in California in mesoscale. As I tell my kids to keep the lights off, it is nice to know that the utilities outsourced all their generation and we will now have rolling blackouts. The two big ones (Edison and PG&E) pulled in a percentage but forgot to cost normalize their fuel basis. THEY had no 5 year plan. Were they storing oil when it was cheap? No. Now they and the shareholders are expecting us to foot the bill because they couldn't manage volatile fuel costs. This may present an opportunity for alternative fuels and energy sources(which they and the oil companies complained were TOO expensive). Now faced with 200% utility increases, those alternatives don't look so expensive, but the utility companies prevented that industry from growing even though it was in the national interest to have it.