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"Fred McGalliard" <frederick.b.mcgalliard@boeing.com> wrote in message
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> codeman wrote:
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> > How about each state, providence, county, etc.  be responsible for their
> > very own power generation, cleanup, and disposal of whatever waste is
> > generated!!   They couldn't sell, trasfer, transport, whatever power
across
> > state lines.
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> However, since most electrical power is used in such mundane things as
> work places, to keep from "selling the power across state lines" you
> would also have to keep from selling the products produced with that
> power.
 Besides, the states are not anything like intrinsic self
> sufficient objects. Most of them have no hydro power, even if they
> wanted it. Many have little or no wind power, and some are very
> deficient in solar power during most of the year. They also have various
> distributions of chemical resources.

Bingo,  you got it.  My point in the original post was to point out that no
one state can exist very well by themself cause they do not have sufficient
and varied resources to make a decent go of it.  If many states band
together and "pool" their resources, then everyones life benefits.   I am
seeing certain states (special interest groups) break off and willingly take
some/most of the goods and services provided by other states but are
unwilling to contribute to the "big picture". Some states only contribution
would be to store hazardous material??? Since they have very little to
contribute to the whole of the country..  Some states contribution would be
power generation or fuel supply (coal, gas, nuclear) or  mineral extraction
and some pollution would have to be beared by neighboring states.  The
neighboring states natural resources would be useless without the power
contribution from one of its neighboring states. As well the power genertion
state would be hurt if they couldn''t get goods and supplies generated by
their neighboring states.  Electric power does not digest well or dress one
well either.

People need to temper their attitude about pollution and focus on the
benefits the industrial world provides them.  Don't give up on pollution
control but keep it reasonable affordable to the mass of the people.  If we
all work together, contribute to the better of society, it wil be a better
place to live.  If we fragment ourselfs to special interest groups,  and
band this and that, then we all suffer.


Expand your thinking. Why would a
> political entity identify our power resources? Only one reason. So those
> who want the power, have to decide how much they want it, rather than
> buying it from far far away where all the problems there can be hidden.
> Sounds like a whole lot of our problems and begins with thinking that
> the political state is a useful idea for resource planning. More like a
> serious impediment.