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From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>
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Subject: CA Power Shortage (was Re: Why do you support Yahoo!)
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 06:32:53PM -0800, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
> > You woldnt believe.  comes with the fact I live way out in the boonies.
> > Everytime the wind blows too hard power comes and goes....if its real bad
> it
> > can go down for hours/days.
> >
> > and I live in a state not really known for wind problems.  Just the long
> > haul power lines are stretched a long ways between poles and the wind can
> > invoke a safety mechanism that opens the curcuit in case power line if
> broke
> > under the stress.
> 
> I live in California.  We're almost always in a stage-3 power emergency
> anymore.  Since the power companies were deregulated here (not considered
> utilities anymore basically), they have shut down a bunch of plants for
> "maintenance" (really so they can jack up the prices).  Our power bill has
> gone up to double what it once was. 

That's really strange. A lot of the current shortage is due to the
fact that the power companies are legally not allowed to pass higher
costs to the consumers. A lot of out-of-state power producers will not
import to California because they can't get the market price and they
are afraid the power companies will not have the money to pay them
with rates capped like they are.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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