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Article #2243Re: Power execs blame gas prices and environment regsforhighelectricity costs
From: Sid Cochran
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:34
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:34
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"John Higdon" <no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> wrote in message
news:B691C95A.318FA%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com.
> in article Lr%a6.259913$IP1.8709396@news1.giganews.com, Sid Cochran
wrote:
>
> > Quite all right, John. Texas appreciates the business you
Californicators
> > disdain.
>
> Our companies send the less-critical operations to Texas. The Texas folks,
> of course, make much less than their California counterparts.
>
> The problem comes from Texas companies (e.g. SBC) buying California
> companies and then destroying them through incompetence and greed.
>
Speaking of incompetence and greed, I see by some of the current articles
in www.latimes.com that one-third of the electrical load in your State--or
perhaps tha only applies in the PG&E territory--is supplied by 'green power'
producers, with whom the utilities have contracts at from $120 to $160 per
MWh, while they are only allowed to charge <domestic/household?> users
$65 per MWh. Even if these 'green' producers only supply 25% of the
load, this is another way in which you and your compatriots are
affirmatively
driving the utilities bankrupt.
Perhaps you should either allow the utilities (or PG&E) either to recoup the
cost of 'green' power in their rates, or else permit them to reduce their
payments to the green producers, including the payments they have
been unable to make for November and December, to the amount they are
allowed to charge for this same green power.
I know, that would be like putting a Band-Aid on a cut throat, but it would
be a step toward paying the piper his due. Remember, you've been dancing
a long time. If you starve your piper to death, or steal his pipes, it may
be
_difficult_ to recruit a new one. (Think about destroying the credit of
the
State.)
Live long and prosper,
Sid Cochran
Tyler, Texas
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