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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: John Pitera who wrote (3542)3/23/2001 2:08:03 PM
From: Yorikke  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 33421
 
I'm sitting in LA. We don't have any problems. No brown outs, not rolling blackouts. Our rates are quite fair considering. We have a government run system that is selling energy to the Private Companies that have screwed up the situation. We have forward contracts and already own our infrastructure. We have a long term energy plan in place.

Last year LA was the whipping boy of Californian 'Free Market Energy' proponents. Those are the guys who paid off lot of people, spread a lot of lies about how the private market energy control is more efficient, and then took the people to the cleaners.

Yes California is a great place to get a chuckle from. That's why people live here. Go ahead and laugh. When you are done you will still live where you do. I will live here, where I can go down to the beach and catch a few rays and enjoy the ocean; and we both will have had a good laugh.



To: John Pitera who wrote (3542)3/23/2001 5:51:45 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 33421
 
but they apparently are very, very, very proud of being on the far edge of the lunatic fringe when it comes to environmental policy.

Indeed. Some 13,000 windmills in California provide a measly 1.5% of their power needs.

At 1/2 million (minimum) per windmill, this is hardly cost effective.

Especially when the wind isn't blowing.