Re: Power execs blame gas prices and environment regsforhighelectricity costs

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From: John Higdon
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:03

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in article tcmay-AAAC69.16520823012001@news.got.net, Tim May  wrote:

> This says that waste disposal, supposedly one of our "pressing"
> problems, is not such a big deal at all, were people to think outside
> the box.

What a social dynamics laboratory this whole power thing has become. When we
are "crisis idling" the media and those they cover get in a dither about
waste recycling, gasoline additives, mountain bikes in the wilderness,
housing density, traffic, and other non-issues. When a real problem actually
surfaces, all of the armchair debating vanishes and we get down to cases.

Yes, we still get the ignoramuses coming out of the woodwork with the usual
airy-fairy energy "solutions", but we're getting down to the real importance
(or insignificance) of borderline ridiculous environmental restrictions.

One little bit of surfacing hypocrisy: the same out-of-state voices who
complain about California's "pollution" coming to their states chide
California for its "tree-hugging" rules.

Sounds like someone wants it both ways.

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Subject: Re: Power execs blame gas prices and environment
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