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To: Neocon who wrote (168002)	8/6/2001 1:55:02 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Thank you. On a miserable hot dog day like today, there’s nothing more bracing than the brisk breeze of truth: Yes, but that's the conspiracy theory of public policy. It's irresponsible. It's not true. So to say you have to choose one or the other, that you're for the environment or you're for energy, is just wrong. ... And as we've done that and increased the demand for gas, the only response that's available is to see the prices go up. The fact of the matter is that you saw in the 1970s a good example of how not to deal with the problem of prices. They've obviously created major problems for themselves and bankrupted PG&E in the process.

To: Neocon who wrote (168002)	8/6/2001 2:07:07 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It is ABSOLUTELY clear that the State of California, knew they were in BIG trouble electrical power wise before the Summer of 2000. On May 10th, 2000 the ISO had a press release (that can be accessed from the CAISO website), that showed if there was a "normal" summer (normal weather and normal power imports from the North West and Arizona - I don't believe that power for TX is physically able to reach CA), Peak power usage would be within 100MW of available supply (a stage 3 Alert - meaning impending rolling blackouts - occurs when supplies are < ~450MW more than consumption). The press release said that if it there is a hot summer(a 5% chance), the State AT LEAST 1,000MW SHORT (implying mandatory power shedding, brownouts and or blackouts)! The June and August were unusually hot, and imports were lower than normal. Why wasn't California's problems on the front page before the summer of 2000 or at least June (when spot power prices often reached over $500 MWhr)? Maybe because the DOE had bigger political problems at the time - The mess at the Los Alamos labs.