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(...) My bill is worst of all. It's the only one that I have to pay for. :-) (...) But why should a power company sell you power for less than it could sell it to me for? Just because it's located in your state? I think the power from a particular (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) blizzard (...) Yup! We don't have rolling blackouts, we just have ice storms that bring the lines down. I live out in the woods on a well. When I have no electricity, I have no heat and no water. We do love our wood stove when that happens. (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) this (...) In this particular hypothetical California McDonalds, I would guess that they had to invest in power infrastructure so that they could keep the grills hot even when the grid isn't active. That kind of UPS/diesel generation system (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hence the 8^) Dave! (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not interested in having a contest with people from California to see whose bill is worse. My point is that it's absurd that my power bill is double when it's not even my state that's having the power crisis. ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Simpson writes: [big snip] (...) effect (...) expense (...) to (...) Right. You can only bribe someone to exert power that they have. If they have no public power, there is no public concern. (...) All public (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It doesn't guarantee that you can afford one...merely that _if_ you can, then it's legal to own. (...) "Who runs Bartertown?" Chris (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think you gave pretty good reasons. Probably would have been better to call it something like "kids doing cool things" or something like that, to avoid the implication that some kids are cool and some aren't. And if the model selection is (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) this (...) Have you checked the price of Gas recently. Most power is generated using fossel fuels and prices have risen sharply Lester (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) HA! I can not see how the price for producing has risin, if they are doing what they have been doing, why would it go up??? No new plants are up, none are going up - so whats changed? If the cost of producing a big mac goes up to $6, but the (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Ah well, as long as this debate is...er... good for the community ;) -- Erin (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wow, only double? You are lucky its only double, before all this my higest bill was $55 for one month, now the cheapest one I have gotten recently was over $150!! ARG! And of course they want to sell to us, they are getting rich doing so. Mark (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sorry, but I actually couldn't be more serious by those questions. I think TLC is making a huge blunder on the name of that. Unless, of course, if it's marketing driven and they're aware of it, in which case maybe it's good for their bottom (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's not that (though that IS part of it). They can't even seem to maintain the current wind farms, because the treehuggers are whining about the birds killed by the blades on the windmills, and fight repairing any that break down. Setting up (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, that was the "royal" ("grand admiral?") you, as in the State of Washington. You've got tons of Pacific submarines at Bremerton, right? Hook 'em up! best LFB (though the Navy might take exception, granted...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) consumers. (...) for (...) we (...) really (...) it. (...) I read an article about Texas power in the WSJ this week. According to the article Texas has made a delibert effort to not be connected to the inter-state power grid. Not being (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) California is a study in contrasts and balance. For example, if California is so liberal, how did Pete Wilson and George Deukmajin hold the governor's office for 16 straight years, with the legislature usually within a couple seats of each (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Forgive me for adding an adendum to my own post, but as I was driving back to work from my lunch hour a few minutes ago, it just occured to me that, yes, Enron really *is* building a twin for its existing skyscraper downtown. Yes, we have to (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why don't a few of the allegedly-intelligent non-liberal morons show up at these meetings and do something about it? Dave! (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You aren't kidding, at any sign of price increases our idiot govenor makes a big stink and forces the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to back down. Everytime they hold a meeting a bunch of morons show up to protest increasing prices. We (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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