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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 10 May 2001 04:32:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Simpson writes:
> I heard an economic analyst on NPR sum up the California energy crisis with this
> analogy:
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> 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.
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> james
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 cost for the parts of a big mac have not gone up, how did it
become $6 to make a big mac? And if the price has gone up, and they are
doing the same thing they always did, thats not our fault, its poor managment.
Mark P
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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