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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (59403)	1/18/2001 4:46:09 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Oh man.....this California energy fiasco is going to go down in history as one of the government's biggest blunders. I can't believe the city of San Francisco is dumb enough to think the companies conspired to cause this. In trying to protect the people from paying the real price in energy they now have effectively cut off the supply. Sound a little like the old Soviet Union? Cheap prices with no goods to be found. The City and State should sue itself.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (59403)	1/18/2001 7:56:53 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Patron - As blackouts hit, San Francisco sues power producers This suggests the solution to California's energy problems. While California has limited supplies of natural gas, independent of price, and it has no available coal, even if coal to gas conversion plants were possible, it needs to look to its own natural advantages to solve its problems. What renewable natural resources does California possess in easily recovered economic quantities? Lawyers and consumer advocates! It is likely that the energy content of a single fully gasified California trial lawyer can power a small city for 24 hours at peak consumption. It also seems likely that the ongoing supply of consumer advocates is sufficient to serve in the place of a dozen Diablo Canyon nuclear plants, without any of the siting problems. A single consumer advocate harnessed in the basement of every single family home should serve as an economical distributed power system that reduces the load on the power grid. Regards, Don