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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 9 May 2001 16:41:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mark Sandlin writes:
in article GD1J6y.EFL@lugnet.com, Scott Costello wrote:

Our idiot govenor Gray Davis has done nothing but spend
one billion dollars to buy power, this is the equivelant of puting a
band-aid on a bazooka wound.

One of the places it's being bought from is Washington State. As a result.
my power bill is almost double what it was at this time last year. :^P
Meanwhile, the local power companies are asking us to conserve (so they can
sell our power to CA)

Its all corporate graft.  Here in Houston (home of Enron, which has been
fighting a court order to sell power to California), our energy costs are
expected to triple this summer.  Why?  Even in August, Texas' month of peak
demand, our energy production is 25% higher than demand.  These corporate
pirates use the California energy crisis as an excuse to rape local consumers.
The news recently reported that the CEO of Enron earned a $7 million bonus for
last fiscal year.  $7 million, yet my energy bill is going to triple?! It's
still a rich man's world.

james



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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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  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) One of the places it's being bought from is Washington State. As a result. my power bill is almost double what it was at this time last year. :^P Meanwhile, the local power companies are asking us to conserve (so they can sell our power to CA) (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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