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Article #2284Re: Power execs blame gas prices and environment regs for highelectricity costs
From: The Traveler
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:34
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:34
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Jeffrey Siegal wrote: [snip] > "In the past when gas was unavailable, power plants had the capability > to burn fuel oil. They > stored over a month s supply of fuel oil in a ready-to-use mode. This, > however, is no longer the > case. Due to environmental and air quality requirements, only a few of > the older power plants in > California still have dual-fuel capability." So the original assertion that environmental rules have an effect on the price of electricity has some truth to it, no? -- We have all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare...Thanks to AOL, we know this is not possible.
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