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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 9 May 2001 17:17:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott P. Costello writes:
> > For the second time I have now been victim of California's rolling
> > blackouts. • ...
> > going to be like come July or August when power demand is really high due to
> > high temperatures? Our idiot govenor Gray Davis has done nothing but spend • ...
> > talk about is price caps. While I am sitting here in the dark, I would be
> > willing to pay a few bucks more to actually have consistant power. Here at
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> So I've been wondering for a couple months why the state doesn't lift the dumb
> socialist power price caps and allow the market to do its thing. Why don't you
> folks just let the problem fix itself? And really, what do you expect Governor
> Davis to do when the legislature won't play ball. This seems clearly a case of
> being their fault, and not his.
I heard an economic analyst on NPR sum up the California energy crisis with this
analogy:
You own a McDonalds. The production costs of a Big Mac has risen to $6 each,
but you are forced by the government to stay in business and sell them for $2
each.
james
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) ... (...) ... (...) So I've been wondering for a couple months why the state doesn't lift the dumb socialist power price caps and allow the market to do its thing. Why don't you folks just let the problem fix itself? And really, what do you (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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