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Article #2244Re: Power execs blame gas prices and environment regsforhighelectricity costs
From: malcolm.scott
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:47
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:47
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"Sid Cochran" <squidley@ballistic.com> wrote in message news:u%db6.262063$IP1.8811307@news1.giganews.com... > > "John Higdon" <no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> wrote in message > news:B691C95A.318FA%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com. > > in article Lr%a6.259913$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. Is that the article which shows non green, non utility companies to be charging $300 to $800 /MWh.? and for twice as much power. Why don't you have a go at them? Malcolm
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