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To: Road Walker who wrote (255955)	10/17/2005 9:08:44 PM
From: kech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572719

Yes, we were. A comprehensive conservation policy would drive down the price of energy immediately, because it would reduce the commodity risk factor. Nothing causes conservation as much as a price increase. Without it, asking for conservation was like pissing into the wind. Now we will get serious conservation because it is profitable to conserve. A comprehensive conservation policy would drive down the price of energy immediately. Not really sure what you mean. If you mean huge tax increases to drive up the price, to get people to use less, then there is no need because we have the price increase anyway. Otherwise, jawboning for conservation without working through price incentives never really works.