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To: portage who wrote (143032)	5/6/2001 12:21:13 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 769670

Portage, Please post a link for your article. TIA, Scumbria

To: portage who wrote (143032)	5/6/2001 12:34:49 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." If the leaders of our nation don't say this, early and often, we will all suffer the fate of stone-headed California...

To: portage who wrote (143032)	5/7/2001 1:51:15 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Dear port, what scientists from what national lab are saying this. Why should I believe any of it? But even looking at the data provided even with conservation and all that other stuff 700 to 1000 plus new plants are needed as opposed to the 1300 proposed. In that there are currently rolling black outs I as an engineer see no reason not to build surplus capacity. Now if one sees this as a 30% overall increase in generation capacity then one could speculate that there are 4500 such plants now and this is being raised to 5800 and with conservation one might attempt to speculate that only 5200 are needed. Again in engineering one builds for spare capacity to take into account natural disasters. Of course all the retarded who prefer forced conservation by blackout don't look at it that way. And only the chronically retarded believe the conservation will ever happen without the true cost of something being paid. tom watson tosiwmee