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To: LindyBill who wrote (5150)	8/15/2003 1:02:38 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793886

Classic Bill post. Two ways to do things: his way and a "socialist" way. As they say, give me a break. My guess, and it's obviously just that, at the moment, is that it will turn out to be some mix of infrastructure stuff that should have been fixed after the 70s blackouts and wasn't and the overlays of deregulation without attention to consumer needs, a 90s problem. I see utilities like this as natural monopolies and thus, necessarily, under some sort of government management/control/regulations, whatever. What sorts depends on a broad array of variables. I don't view that as socialism. Just a prudent management of a resource base that doesn't work the way those textbook illustrations of chicken farmers and eggs did. Was that what they were?