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To: tejek who wrote (135344)	4/1/2001 10:54:10 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575985

Re: CA's problems last summer. I know of at least one CA plant that was designed to be dual fuel (natural gas and oil) but by the time it was nearing completion, the relative prices were such that it seemed obvious that oil would never be used (and so they couldn't justify adding the costs of a delivery system to the rate base). When the natural gas shortage hit a few months ago, they begged, borrowed, (or stole) enough tanker trucks to run 1,000 truckloads of oil a day to keep the plant going, since no provision for bulk fuel oil delivery had ever been made. Years of mild weather during a period of industry restructuring has caught a lot of people off guard. They are really trying hard out there in CA, but they face some tough challenges. Until we start building these guys in volume (modular gas cooled nukes that can be prefabbed and trucked in to a facility as demand grows - no gigantic initial capital investment) we're going to have problems. uilondon.org