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To: gamesmistress who wrote (1777)3/16/2001 3:02:46 PM
From: ItsAllCyclical  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 23153
 
OT - >> ....consumers pay for energy in a relatively direct proportion to their usage. <<

True to a point, but most industries only include finding costs. Disposal costs, clean up, polution effects and other long term costs pretty much get put in the category of "someone else's problem".

If we factored in all the costs I'm sure energy prices would be much higher, but we can always let our children worry about that issue.

The US should tax energy on a higher basis similar to the EU imho, but we certainly can't do it now. Of course as a former owner of the stocks you'd never catch me saying that.

Sorry to get sidetracked. Compared to the internet there is very much a direct correlation.



To: gamesmistress who wrote (1777)3/16/2001 3:10:32 PM
From: stsimon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 23153
 
You have to love the state which brought us Goofy. By the way, the rumor that the Governor moon lights at Disneyland in costume is totally false.

You have to love a state where people leave their $2 million dollar beach homes driving 5,000 lb Land Rovers to pick up their kids in private school and then complain that the power fluctuations are raising hell with their wine cellar's ability to keep the Lafite Rothschild at 55 degrees....