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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (1420)	3/22/2001 3:46:17 PM
From: Don Miller	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1805

Ray, I have a long history of engineering energy conservation in heavy industries, and therefore I have a different perspective than you. I am also a died in the wool free marketer. The so called deep thinkers in the high tech centers think they can grow 30 to 50% per year and go 12 years without adding a single megawatt in-state? They think they deserve retail price protection "because of the high cost" of importing power from somebody elses dirtier backyard? Ca. electorate was convinced to build the electric supply industry structure (wall) they are about to hit. There is no avoiding that wall now. Only Ca. should be expected to fix the debacle they named "deregulation". Pull the retail price fix and do it ASAP! FERC does not have a dog in this fight. Ca. electorate made this problem, they need to fix it. Ca. has already sucked too hard on their neighbors, and have the audacity to complain they can not have more AND CHEAPER. Ca. dictated those generating assets be decentralized and sold. Rhetorical question do you see the Ca. problem in any of the other 50 states? Ca has refused to site 4 large power stations in the recent past. See if you can reviewed Spence Abraham's speech (and about eight other speakers) of the last week to the chamber of commence on CSPN. Or go to the CSPN, USchamber.com, or DOE website to see if they can replay it back to you. It will be a real eye opener. Conservation is their only near term and limited potential alternative. Conservation happens because the cost gets too high, and by Ca. law the retail price is going to remain down. Deregulate the retail price. Pull the retail price fix and do it ASAP! Get time of day meters installed and the clothes and dishes will get washed at 2AM. Production might even happen on the third shift. The electric water heaters will recover overnight. The attic insulation will be increased to R30 or higher. Thermal barrier paint will be sprayed on the under side of the roof. The ridge vent will be install. Thermal pane windows will be installed or fixed. Every small crack in the exterior envelope will be filled with caulk, I am sure there are a few of those cracks in earth quake prone Ca. A timered thermostat will get installed. Maybe even open the windows for a day or two. The older AC units will be replaced with a higher SERI unit. The hot tub will get covered and may be only heated on used days. But, then again we are talking about the same minds that believe, beyond a doubt, that electric cars have zero emmissons, so I doubt if the retail price control will change. They also think that taxing citizens and industry to subsidize under collected true power costs makes sense. What are they going to do when the pig is out of blood, or decides to come to Texas where we encourage a healthy business environment and have plenty of power and more coming on stream. If they need power continuity for the next two years let them buy Diesel or Gas Turbine generator sets and figure out how to site them PDQ in Ca., or put up another wind turbine on their campus or change the office windows into solar cells or burn some trash. Be assured they are going to also complain about the price of buying and installing emergency generator sets because they also waited until that market was thin as well. Maybe invent a more efficient solar cell. May be invent a gas turbine engine that does not make so much NOX. We have yet to blame the airplanes for the NOX they contribute. In Dallas you can see a NOX ramp running up thousands of feet from every runway at DFW, and EPA is still blaming the cars and trucks. Ca might want to consider placing power plants on floating or man made islands far enough over the Pacific horizon. There is plenty of cooling capacity out there! There I finally extingushed the fire your post sparked, sorry for the length. Unfortunately I mean everything, Ca. has troubles of it's own making ahead, they need to fix it, not the FEDS.