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To: Joseph Beltran who wrote (46916)	5/17/2001 2:24:30 PM
From: w0z	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 70976

OT. Bush deserves alot of praise for addressing the energy needs of our country. we have ignored the problem for so long. AMEN to that! After 8 years of Clinton pandering to the environmentalists, we are now enjoying the fruits of short-term thinking. You don't shut down all new California power projects for 10 years (or is it more?) and fix power prices without expecting demand to outstrip supply eventually. Kudos to Bush for having the balls to suggest we need balance in our energy policy including politically controversial ideas like opening a small area of Alaskan wilderness and even considering nuclear...never would have happened under the Great Fornicator. For the environmentalists who want zero contaminants in their drinking water, I suggest they consider carefully what such regulations will do to the availability and cost of their water. It will dramatically increase the cost and reduce the supply! It's very easy to mandate these things...but quite a different story when it comes to living with the results, as Californians are discovering with electricity. I live in a very clean area of the country but I drink only distilled water at $0.69 per gallon...a much more economical alternative than short-sighted mandates that would apply to every drop of water going through every public supply system. Unfortunately the electronics industry ( as well as the agriculture industry) is responsible for some significant contaminants (such as TCE, etc) in groundwater but much of this occurred before we knew as much as we do today. After the fact, it is extremely difficult if not impossible to reduce the level of groundwater contaminants to zero. It's truly amazing what some people accept at face value without thinking about the long-term consequences.