Re: Consumers: This greed may spread across the USA

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From: Jim Davidson
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:16

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jaeger@pluto.njcc.com (Jaeger T. Cat) writes:

> Would this be the industry collusion that
>   (a) froze end user prices
>       (nope, that was the stupid legislature)
>   (b) didn't allow industry to hedge using long term futures contracts
>       (nope, that was the stupid legislature)
>  
> or
>   (c) the lack of quick approval for new power plants
>       (nope, that was the eco-terrorists)
>   (d) the lack of conservation
>       (nope, that's the idiot "someone will bail me out" end users)

Umm..  You're wildly off-base on the last one.

California has one of the lowest levels of energy usage among all the states.
Last I checked, they ranked about 47th out of 50.

States that *don't* understand conservation include places like, well, Texas.

California tends to lead for the obvious reasons:

    * moderate climate 
        -- many places don't need air conditioning, which is one of the biggest
           users of electricity; heating costs are also low

    * low transportation costs
        -- despite fairly long commutes, the high population density means that
           people don't have to go a long way for most things.

-- 
Jim Davidson
jdavidson @ acm.org

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