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To: Rande Is who wrote (49915)	3/29/2001 10:16:36 AM
From: Shroom37	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

OT>Rande, yesterday afternoon I was South of Sacramento in Davis and stopped by a restaurant to get a bite to eat. I sat at the counter near the entrance. While sitting there in the heat, in walks two older ladies. While they are standing there waiting to be seated they start talking about how hot it was in the restaurant. They asked the Hostess if the AC is broken and are told, "No it's not broken, we are just doing are part to conserve." With that the two ladies turned around and left, I assume in search of an ACed restaurant. One other point. While I was sitting there reading the menu I happened to notice the cook. He was working over the hot grill in what must have been ridiculously hot kitchen. After watching him for a few minutes dripping his sweat all over the food he was preparing I decided to just have an iced tea and left. I agree with you that AC will be a bigger and bigger draw for customers as it gets hotter and hotter. I don't know about anyone else, but for me, watching an overweight short order cook dripping sweat all over peoples food is not what I want to see when I go to a restaurant. Some places just flat NEED to be ACed. Regards, Marc

To: Rande Is who wrote (49915)	3/29/2001 5:36:47 PM
From: Starlight	Respond to of 57584

>>>> If you live near the ocean and enjoy the marine layer that blocks the sun the first 5 hours of the day. . . and with the mild climate and the cool winds that blow in that area, you probably don't need air-conditioning at all <<< Right - I don't have it, and there are just a few days in the summer when I wish I did, but I can manage. However, even though I'm in a solar-heated building, our electric bill for the common areas of the building has gone from $1800/mo. to $4400/mo. Our H.O. dues had to go up by $75 per unit/mo. to compensate for the higher elec. bill. I, for one, would welcome another nuclear power plant. It's too bad that one just 50 mi. up the road has been turned into scrap metal.

To: Rande Is who wrote (49915)	3/29/2001 6:37:31 PM
From: Silver_Bullet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

<Electricity Shortage -- > Actually the culprit to this whole fiasco is Deregulation...Electricity, much like water is a neccesity of communities and something that the government must oversee the provision of... This is one reason we pay taxes. Now, I do think that we as a society waste energy on the whole but this is beside the point. Deregulation has now made electricty in california not a public service but a for profit business. This won't work because to government can not regulate when to build more infrastructure such as power plants like they can, and currently do with water / wastewater plants, which is also a needed public service for all citizens...Of course unless you'd rather drink dirty water. Most companies won't build extra capacity because it's bad for the bottom line... It's plain a simple a business decision and why not just keep the same size infrastructure and when the demand goes up just charge more money and make more PROFIT! Water and Wastewater treatment is still a regulated service. There are laws by the EPA that requires a community to be in the planning stages of building more capacity at 80% utilization. The community has to be in the building stage at the 90% capacity mark or fines of many thousands of dollars a day can be imposed. This ensures that as long as there is water there is always enough capacity to treat it. It takes many years to build these electricity generating and water treatment facilites so this california problem could go on for awhile. As we have seen with the electricty shortage in CA deregulation allowed companies to not build the necessary infrastructure prior to it's need and now there are huge increases in prices and at the same time no guarantee that the electricity will even be there. I heard just recently that Ohio and New york are less than 4 years away from the same problem. Infact companies in ohio are now calling in to see what the price of electricity is for the day to see if it's even worth opening the doors. The need for electricity, much like the need for water is a guarantee and the only way to ensure the cheapest generation or treatment is to let the govenment keep tabs on the whole process. FT