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Article #2527Re: How come the California gov't won't raise prices to kill electricity demand?
From: Jon Noring
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:48
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:48
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In article <jtnews@optonline.net> wrote:
>How come the California gov't
>won't raise prices to kill electricity demand?
Liberal politics.
>They should get rid of all the residential
>and business price caps and just let the prices rise
>to meet demand. Otherwise, they'll have
>to deal with rolling blackouts forever.
What's really odd is that the environmental wing of the left should applaud
raising the price of energy to its true market level since that will reduce
demand (thereby cutting greenhouse gas emissions), make alternative energy
more economically attractive, etc. I seem to recall a couple decades ago the
environmentalists saying this very thing -- the low cost of energy leads
to over-consumption, leading to more pollution and other environmentally
unfriendly results (such as less incentive for industry to develop more
energy-efficient devices, and for manufacturers themselves to be more energy
efficient.)
Do I see an eventual estrangement between the liberal left and its
environmentalist wing over this issue?
Jon Noring
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,cec2e736b360b4dc,start X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 107e5d,fd5dd0238a3c2a98 X-Google-Attributes: gid107e5d,public X-Google-Thread: 108a2d,cec2e736b360b4dc,start X-Google-Attributes: gid108a2d,public X-Google-Thread: 104eff,cec2e736b360b4dc,start X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 10607c,cec2e736b360b4dc,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10607c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-21 07:52:13 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.compaq.com!uunet!sac.uu.net!ash.uu.net!dfw.uu.net!news.olagrande.net!not-for-mail From: noring@olagrande.net (Jon Noring) Newsgroups: sci.energy,ca.general,ca.politics,sci.environment,alt.politics.green.party Subject: Re: How come the California gov't won't raise prices to kill electricity demand? Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:48:37 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Ola Grande Networks, Inc. (www.olagrande.net) Lines: 33 Message-ID: <99aigl$f2t$1@og1.olagrande.net> References: <3AB84524.6E2B94DB@optonline.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: og1.olagrande.net X-Trace: og1.olagrande.net 985189717 15453 63.98.209.2 (21 Mar 2001 15:48:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@olagrande.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:48:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test74 (May 26, 2000) Originator: noring@olagrande.net (Jon Noring)