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To: Scumbria who wrote (131465)	2/5/2001 12:09:19 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571214

Basic safety requirements in building codes and some effort put in to air quality is not what I'm talking about. CA has regulated energy a lot more then that. When any expantion of power generation becomes a very long and expensive process and the possibility of being effectively vetoed by any political group with a stake against it you will eventually have problems generating electricity. Make some basic rules about safety and emissions fine, then let companies get on with building the electricity generation capacity without court battles or paperwork that weighs more then the plant or endless hearings. During the 1990's, free market forces wiped out the last of the orchards and vineyards in Silicon Valley. Do you maintain that there should have been regulation forbiding anyone from using that land for any other purpose? Tim

To: Scumbria who wrote (131465)	2/5/2001 12:36:48 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571214

Left unchecked, the marketplace is notoriously poor at protecting the environment and quality of life. Is the Government any better? Let's take a poll of the residents around Chernobyl (a government run facility). Or maybe we should check with all the residents around the "government"-run toxic waste dump sites. The reality is that people are people. There are people in marketplace who care, and there are those who don't, just as there are people in the government who care while others don't. "Government" isn't anything but "people". Some of them are smart, some are stupid, some are corrupt, some are unethical, some are good and some are bad. The average DMV worker isn't any more noble than the average manufacturing line worker. There's no difference between the "government" and the "marketplace", except for the fact that it's harder to fire the losers in the government.