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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (153444)	6/14/2001 8:28:46 PM
From: SecularBull	Respond to of 769670

Another liberal bastion... the frivilous lawsuit. When in error, sue. You also rely on projections that never pan out. ~SB~

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (153444)	6/14/2001 9:43:25 PM
From: J.B.C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>>Wrong........the bill passed had enough power reserves figured until 2005<< Obviously not a true statement. Reality is not part of your vision. A "bill" does not create any energy. As I said it was a flawed bill. It is not strange that plants that have been running at 98% capacity have to go off line for maintenance. But the fact is that CA. has lost an insignificant amount of electricity production resulting from plants being down, this is not the root of the problem. Lack of construction of ANY utility plants in the last 10 years is the root cause. Do you really think that utility companies now building power plants (your statement) would chose to invest the large capital outlays neccessary to build new plants if bringing the existing plants back on line at a much cheaper cost would really solve the problem. Your lack of logic and economic understanding is scary. It is A FACT that the utility companies presented to Sacramento that there was inadequate supply yet the government chose to chart a course that relied on out of state energy supply(documented fact). Again that bill had nothing to do with increasing the supply of utility but the ability to chose your power company, on top of that it prevented supplier the ability to pass on the cost of higher source cost. This prevented power companies from even pursuing power station construction in recent years, why build when there is no profit. I don't understand your inability to even grasp this basic economic lesson going on in your back yard. >> Let the lawsuit investigate and discover what happened. The facts will be proven true or false in court. << The utility companies should have an investigation of politicians and ask them which one of them is responsible for the mess. Here's a few questions that they could ask: Who is it that is responsible for passing regulations that prevented us from building any new power genaration capacity in the past 10 year? Who's responsible for mandating that we couldn't pass on higher cost of wholesale power cost? Make the hearings public and watch the Tom Haddens, Grayout Davis's duck and cover! Jim Jim