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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (9281)	11/14/2002 6:37:16 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

No, I agreed that a lot of the problems were created by our system, and I am still glad I voted against it. It's not hard to see that we left the hen house door open. That doesn't change the fact that there was ample juice and natural gas, but that it was being withheld to cause our lights to go out. That's why we had a crisis, not because the energy didn't exist. That's also not to say that that we can't have a real, as opposed to an artificial, political or commercial crisis. However, given the number of new plants on line, and the additional conservation stuff going on, I expect we'll have ample supplies for a least 10 years, providing another 30 million don't move here. I dunno, seems like a good number. Maybe only 7 years, maybe 17. Be a while, tho. In the meantime, yer right, I owe my soul to the company power plant, and so does my state, but neither the democratic leanings nor the gaming has been able to stop us. We still are the dominant force in the US economy. They can knock our politics, but it seems to work. BTW, it looks like our deficit is about 10% of the US deficit, which at least is coincidentally interesting, cuz we are about 10% the size, at least population wise. A lot of states are running in da hole right now. That doesn't make it any better, cuz I wish nobody had a deficit, but we aren't alone. Price ceilings didn't come into play until after abut Memorial Day '01; right after the dems took over the senate. It didn't cause a shortage; we had no rolling blackouts after that. Will caps mean something in the long run? I dunno, but that didn't cause the original shortage. Talk at you tomorrow. Rat