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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (34564)	5/31/2003 9:54:34 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Mq, Re: For example, we have got an electricity crisis here, when all that was required was to double or quadruple the price, which would result in people not wasting it or using it when they don't really need to. Can you point me to any discussion of this matter? I spent quite a while boning up on the IPP scoundrels who foisted the faux "energy crisis" on California a couple years ago and managed to corner the Australian market last summer. I'd be curious to see who the list of players in the NZ market. I already know it is some of the same scum that operated over here, but maybe you have a more comprehensive list of these organized criminals. Doubling or quadrupling the rates is not, IMHO, the answer. Making electicity traders subject to massive fines and imprisonment for fraud would probably be the best answer for your market's woes. ******** On another note, you say 6 billion people are increasingly armed with CDMA2000 phragmented photon cyberphone light sabres, whereas three decades ago they were armed with slide rules and not long before that with horse-shoes and muskets. We can do a lot more with light sabres than muskets. Hmmm, do you have any figures on the penetration of CDMA phones worldwide? I'd be very curious to compare this to the number of people worldwide with a Kalishnikov-equivalent. I think we are still very much in the musket age. As does Adnan Kashoggi and his pals in the Carlyle Group. :)