Re: [SLUG-POL] It's Quiet in here

From: Jim (jlange1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 20:42:04 EST


A good report about called:
Hoax: How Deregulation let the Power Industry Steal $71 Billion from
California
can be found at
www.consumerwatchdog.org

A new book about Bush is coming out Tuesday and its already on Amazons
bestseller list. Its called : Stupid White Men
www.michaelmoore.com
Jim

On Thursday 14 February 2002 07:02 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 06:31:08PM +0000, Steven Johnson wrote:
> > OK, I am bored so let me open up a discussion point. Last year, we
> > discussed the California energy shortage. There were quite a few people
> > who made some, what now appears to be outlandish claims, of
> > undercapacity.
> >
> > Now, when California literally cannot give energy away fast enough and
> > the collapse of Enron have your original opinions changed? If so, why?
> > If not, why not?
> >
> > I would like to keep this introspective. Review what you said last
> > year and comment on that.
>
> You expect me to go look up what I said then?! ;-}
>
> I don't know if "cannot give energy away fast enough" is accurate. When
> this was really a problem for California was in the summer, as I recall.
> Moreover, at the time, there were plants being built which may now be
> online. California's bigger problem is that they locked themselves into
> expensive long-term contracts, and any electricity they sell back will
> have to be at a loss.
>
> I don't know how much "undercapacity" California had. The bigger issue
> was that, while California had doubled in population, no new plants had
> been built in ten years. This because of the enviro-nazis. At the same
> time, California had embarked on a disasterous policy they called
> "deregulation", which mostly consisted of price controls for consumers.
> Unfortunately, you can't execute price controls on one side of the
> pipeline and not the other. Not indefinitely. At some point, something
> will give, as it did in California.
>
> Gray Davis has probably been the worst governor in California's recent
> history. A while back, California enacted legislation to roll back
> bilingual education. Now teaching was to be done in English only.
> Minorities favored this, and test scores went up. Now, despite the fact
> that this policy was enacted as law, and the fact that people wanted
> it, Gray Davis is attempting to subvert it by bringing back bilingual
> education. This guy is a walking disaster. I don't follow him closely,
> but I suspect everything he touches turns to excrement.
>
> (Sorry I couldn't be introspective. ;-)
>
> Paul



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