FW: Re[2]: [at-l] A.N.W.R. VOTE - conservation issue - not trail

[jbkramer@afn.org (Bryan Kramer)]

Thanks for your understated efforts at correcting my email responses, I
just switched email clients and the new client defaulted to no prefixes
on replies. After your whacking with a brick I found how to turn on
prefixes buried about three levels deep in the preferences.

The difference is not marginal, the alternative suppliers stated that
they were just beginning to make a profit at the highly inflated prices
being paid in California last spring. Of course the politicians bollixed
up the deregulation. But don't you think that building zero power plants
for 23 years might have just a little something to do with it?
Especially since the population increased substantially during that
period.

Bryan

 
> I never suggested that alternative sources aren't more
> expensive. Yes, they cost (marginally) more.  However, the 
> implication to which I was responding was that California's 
> energy woes in 2000 were a result of high priced alternative 
> energy. That was not the case AT ALL.  The truth of the 
> matter is that CA politicians made a bad decision when they 
> deregulated their energy industry.  They placed caps on 
> retail prices, but no caps on wholesale prices.  This 
> inevitably led to a simple problem based in capitalism.  
> There were some othe factors that summer, but the major root 
> cause was the actions of their legislature.