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Article #8702Re: Consumers: This greed may spread across the USA
From: Stan Brown
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:54
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:54
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Quoth poboxdc@ix.netcom.com <poboxdc@ix.netcom.com> in misc.consumers: >SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- California's top power regulator on Monday >proposed a 40 percent increase in electricity rates, saying it >would encourage enough conservation to get the state through the >summer. If it encourages any conservation at all, it will be enough to get through next week. Look at the rise in gas prices: people grumbled a lot, then went on driving just as much as they had before. Why would we expect electricity consumption to be any different? Stan, wondering why power isn't dirt cheap in Central New York, with all the waterfalls we have, and Niagara Falls close at hand.
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