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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 9 May 2001 18:00:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher Weeks wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> What?  Can you imagine the screams of protest as the citizens of California had
> to pay the *actual* costs for both their energy and short-sitedness?  No
> politician could endure the horror of enraged voters!
> 
> Steve

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 haven't had price increases in over three years.  Keep
in mind, inspite of a few intelligent people, California is largely a
liberal state. We now see what happens when a largely liberal state
completely turns control over to a buch of nutty environmentalists. We can't
even use the powerplants we have to full capacity, for fear of air
pollution. Well forgive me if I suggest that we have bigger problems than a
little more pollution.

Scott



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  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) Why don't a few of the allegedly-intelligent non-liberal morons show up at these meetings and do something about it? Dave! (25 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) What? Can you imagine the screams of protest as the citizens of California had to pay the *actual* costs for both their energy and short-sitedness? No politician could endure the horror of enraged voters! Steve (25 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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