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Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 10 May 2001 10:16:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mark Papenfuss writes:
> 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
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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 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
Have you checked the price of Gas recently. Most power is generated using
fossel fuels and prices have risen sharply
Lester
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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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