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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (287)	5/10/2001 2:50:09 PM
From: J Gunn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1715

Without giving away my age, the "blue laws" I remember meant you couldn't SHOP during the week-end. Go to church or visit the relatives only. BORING!!!!

To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (287)	5/10/2001 11:03:52 PM
From: Angler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1715

I'm all in favor of closing down the stores on Sundays and holidays. Nothing wrong with that. But I doubt if it would ever happen? I remember. Also, I recall in recent years in both Europe and Downunder stores closed down. Angler

To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (287)	5/14/2001 7:44:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1715

Hi Tim, Re: Blue Laws: While it might be laudable to have our Sundays be less commercialized, there is no real advantage to solving the rolling blackouts by lowering energy consumption on Sundays, which is already a day of lower energy demand, generally. Here's a link to the CaISO's Current Conditions page. caiso.com As can be seen, the peak in demand occurs in the late afternoon, as air conditioners (30% of grid load, more or less) kick in to keep buildings cooled. Rather than blue laws, some sort of means of shedding non-essential loads during peak periods would seem to be the obvious solution. This has proven to be devilishly difficult to accomplish, as there simply aren't that many non-essential loads, according to the customers who stand to be displaced from the grid. Ray