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To: excardog who wrote (1145)	5/14/2001 3:52:09 PM
From: Second_Titan	Respond to of 206200

I have experience in power plants and manufacturing. Both very energy intensive businesses. As a manager of a production facility using millions of dollars of fuel a month, we would make sure we always operated with the cheapest fuel. Even if it meant a brief outage if transfer systems did not cooperate. The point I am trying to drive is that well run facilities will make sure they can switch at will. If operations due not permit preventative maintenance to ensure reliability, the transfer & maintenance is done with a brief outage. Each business's fuel situation differs. So arrangements need to be made to contract for the fuel. But no one wanting to stay employed will stare at a fuel cost differential of x% and not make all efforts to operate on the cheapest fuel. Even if it means an unexpected shutdown. In a new CC power plant fuel cost maybe 2/3 of all expenses, with debt interest being #2.