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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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