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Dear "father" forgive me ......

My sympathies for being in California right now.  The people in your state
can't seem to agree on where to put powerhouses.  You can't increase the
demand without increasing the supply. It simply doesn't work.  Your own
environmentalists have done everything they can to stand in the way of power
house construction.  The latest is now you want power from other states.
Well, Colorado, Utah and Nevada don't have it to give to you anymore.
Plants in Washington and Oregon have been abandoned, shut down. There
is a new group of idiots that want to destroy the dams along the Columbia
River because of fish.  So enjoy the fish, eat it raw...you don't have
anything
to cook it with.  You have a problem. Let the rest of us know how you solve
it...without our help. Sorry, but we can't give it to you anymore.
The plan from the Clinton/Gore administration was called conservation. You
will never drive the prices down while increasing demand. Drive the demand
down with forced conservation or simply find another form of energy.
...Ted

"Curtis CCR" <curtisccr@mail.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3A4A785C.FB64382D@nospam.com>,
>   Father McClay <mcclay@nospam.com> wrote:
> > anonymous wrote:
>
> > > How on earth are people going to be able to pay twice as much
> > > as before to heat their homes?  This is a really bad situation.
> There
> > > is going to be a lot of hardship because of this doubling of gas
> > > costs.
> >
> > The Clinton Administration was working out a solution. Now
> > things may get worse because George Bush is an oil man.
> > Expect to pay much, much more in the coming months/years.
>
> Yeah right.
>
> While I would not place all the blame at the feet of goverment, a good
> portion of the blame for our energy problems of the last two years
> (gasoline prices, electricity prices/shortages, natural gas
> prices/shortages) can be directed to the Clinton administration's total
> lack of an energy policy.
>
> Please tell me what is the "solution" the Clinton administration is
> ["was"] working on?
>
> I live in California.  We have electricity problems here as well as a
> gas price increases.
>
> Everyone here wants to make PG&E and South CA Edison pay for everything
> that is going wrong with the market here.  Just like on the national
> level.  The federal and state government share the blame for our power
> crisis.  CA Governor Davis is trying to work out something so he'll look
> like a hero -
>
> - but I want to know how it got this bad in the first place.
>
> I got my December PG&E bill today (service to 12/23).
>
> I used 10% less gas, and 13% less electricity than I did during the same
> billing cycle last year (and last year's Dec billing cycle was a day
> shorter).
>
> We put up no Christmas lights this year, and replaced several
> incandecent lights bulbs with flouresents (70% more efficient) last
> summer.  I installed three more this month, for a total of 9 in the
> house now.  We also cut back on the heat by replacing the broken timer
> thermostat and getting more agressive with the settings - 60 degrees at
> night, and during the day when we are gone.  68 in the morning an
> evening (7 hours total).
>
> Today's bill was 13% higher that the same cycle last year.
>
> PG&E is lobbying for a 40% increase in electric rates to recover
> wholesale costs.  I can understand why they are asking for it.... but
> for the sake of my budget, I hope they don't get it.
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