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In ye olden post John Navas <spamfilter@navasgrp.dublin.ca.us> spake...
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>In <B729FCC4.3D626%no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> on Thu, 17 May 2001
>22:10:13 -0700, John Higdon <no-spam@RadioMonopoly.com> wrote:
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>>What we should have been doing all along is to refuse to pay the exorbitant
>>prices...period. If that would mean dropping load (rolling blackouts), then
>>that is what it would mean.
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>I tend to agree, but as noted below, it could backfire.
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>>Once the generators learn that they are not
>>going to get astronomical prices for on-peak electricity, you can bet the
>>price will drop like a stone.
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>I think it quite possible that prices will settle in at the cap, the
>most we are willing to pay.  The danger is that our total cost might
>well go up if the cap is set too high, and that it might not be worth
>the damage to the economy if the cap is set too low, a tough balancing
>act indeed.


How about allowing electric power to be bought and sold on the stock
market like gold, silver, platinum, oil, etc? Ditto selling water on
the open market.


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