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To: bentway who wrote (341672)	6/28/2007 7:51:43 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1578622

re: Some states have mandated the laws, so, the Feds could mandate them. If it really DID become unprofitable to sell energy, they'd quit doing it, and THEN something would have to be done. Oh yeah, they could. But the utility companies are the most regulated monopolies. So even though they have stock holders they are not the regular corporations we all know and love </sarcasm>. Here in Florida, they just passed a law that the utilities could raise prices in anticipation of new plants that they 'might' build that wouldn't come on line for 10 years! Which is why I keep wondering if distributed power generation, in the form of solar on everyones roof (in the "sunshine state") might be cheaper than building the power plants??? So yes, they can mandate stuff. But in the end you can't break the power companies.