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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (87633)	2/18/2001 9:12:27 AM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

"the juice goes to the highest bidder." During a stage 3 alert it is illegal to sell power outside the state. Suspect the same for stages 1 and 2. "The fines may be rather small in comparison to the price of juice." If the fines were small why wouldn't the plants have been willing to run, especially since "the juice goes to the highest bidder. Producing in state should have been more profitable than producing out of state and suffering 10% power losses due to transmission inefficiencies. "I wonder why Edison refused to build a plant back in 1994?" Haven't bothered to go back that far. Utilities are clearly not blameless. " If they have adequate power for their customers and a bunch extra and they are doing it with two thirds of their plants what difference does it make if they service some of their older plants? " The point was that the plants are all old in California and at any given time a third are in maintenance, even during a stage 3 crisis, and even by the beloved DWP. Take the power capacity you quoted in the beginning post and cut it in half for maintenance and hydro that has been forced offline. Suddenly the true problem becomes visible.