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Article #111Re: Outsider viewpoint of CA power crisis
From: John Navas
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 03:33
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 03:33
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[POSTED TO ba.general - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE] In <3B09A946.18A87652@quiotix.com> on Mon, 21 May 2001 16:48:22 -0700, Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> wrote: >John Higdon wrote: >> Does the Buyer's Cartel have to reveal today's "top price"? A supplier can >> quote the rate and the cartel can say "no thanks". Only if the sellers get >> together and talk amongst themselves about the rates being charged >> (otherwise known as "collusion") would they even be able to figure out >> today's cap. Tomorrow's cap is a new ball game. > >It doesn't matter beacuse the "buyer's cartel" isn't going to happen >anyway. In addition to violating anti-trust law, agreements between >states must be approved by Congress, which wouldn't go along with it. >The idea was a trial balloon launched for political purposes and nothing >more. 1. I don't think anti-trust laws would prevent such agreements among sovereign entities (states). 2. I don't think Congress needs to approve anything not preempted by Federal law. 3. As a practical matter California could simply announce its cap, and other states could match it. That would seem to be no more unlawful than airline ticket pricing. -- Best regards, John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f824f,af5e5edc3039a6a2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,af5e5edc3039a6a2 X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-Thread: 10b619,af5e5edc3039a6a2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b619,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-21 20:33:26 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail From: John Navas <spamfilter@navasgrp.dublin.ca.us> Newsgroups: sdnet.general,ba.general,la.general Subject: Re: Outsider viewpoint of CA power crisis Organization: The Navas Group, Dublin, CA, USA References: <9e1rc7$gdj$1@slb1.atl.mindspring.net> <9e1ues$bhp$1@agate.berkeley.edu> <3b048770$0$193$e2e8da3@nntp.cts.com> <C_%M6.206$1R4.7766@typhoon.sonic.net> <B729FCC4.3D626%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> <rG8O6.150$sA6.9814@typhoon.sonic.net> <B72E9045.3D9C6%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> <4veO6.207$sA6.10935@typhoon.sonic.net> <B72EEF9D.3DA22%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> <3B09A946.18A87652@quiotix.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 Message-ID: <a6lO6.16$r61.1798@typhoon.sonic.net> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 03:33:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.204.185.87 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 990502406 209.204.185.87 (Mon, 21 May 2001 20:33:26 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 20:33:26 PDT