Re: Interesting article on the current CA power crisis, & green energy

[Patrick Salsbury <salsbury at sculptors dot com>]

Not sure if this post originally made it to the list or not (the headers
looked a bit funky), so I'm re-sending it. 

I've only gotten to read the first of these two articles you recommended,
Anton, but it was really *VERY* well done, I thought. Thanks for posting
the links!


On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:14:16PM -0800, Anton Sherwood wrote:
> > http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/01/18/green_power/index.html
> 
> I've heard several times (and in various versions) that the power
> retailers, like PG&E, are *forbidden* under "de"regulation to buy more
> than a small fraction of their juice on longterm contracts.
> 
> Some other articles:
> http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-09-20/smith.html
> http://www.reason.com/ml/ml010401.html
> 
> 
> 	People need to think "big picture" and "stop caring
> 	only about what's cheaper, right now," says Kohl.
> 
> What we need is fewer do-gooders telling us what we ought to want.
> 
> -- 
> Anton Sherwood  --  br0nt0 at p0b0x dot com  --  http://ogre.nu/
> 

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