To: BirdDog who wrote (48992 ) 3/26/2002 3:06:02 PM From: Jim Willie CB Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 65232 a sign of times: bullish for energy, bullish for mining higher prices will be forced, in order to fix the system the Bonneville Authority controls electricity for the Pacific Northwest hydroelectric production system in 2000, Alcoa was asked by Bonneville to go offline, to suspend all smelting activity (from bauxite to aluminum), to cooperate and shut down operations that use enormous amounts of energy beer cans require huge amounts of electricity Alcoa complied, and is making more money from selling electricity leases than they did in smelting to make aluminum we in this country ARE TOTALLY ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL when it comes to energy we believe that whenever energy costs rise, some evil force DID IT TO US like Enron or Calpine or Dynergy in price gouging how clueless!!! we believe cheap energy is some national birthright we know resources lie just waiting for our exploitation but we commit no funds toward that exploitation, and block all efforts of rightofway, imposing environmental obstacles, feasibility review studies, environmental impact studies sure, we dont mind raping and pillaging foreign lands for oil, gas, minerals but God forbid, if there is mining runoff into water supplies meanwhile, Green Dorks block every single new electric plant and show more respect for darting snails than human jobs that support families let the StupidShit Liberals read by candlelight and nuclear facilities were phased out and coal plants were deemed unhealthy so whenever the economy does revv up, expect more electric blackouts not in California this time, in my opinion Calif has two new shiny Calpine whopper electric plants, each producing 500 megawatts one in northCal, one in southCal my guess is New York State will go dark or some other northeast state dominated by Liberal DumbFuxx and Dumbass Liberals will accuse big business of creating the problem when the finger should be pointed at the Shoeless Clueless Liberals their priorities are kneedeep up their ass most Liberals are the stupidest primates I have ever seen walking the earth / jim