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Article #138Re: Outsider viewpoint of CA power crisis
From: Michael Marion
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:51
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:51
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John Higdon wrote: > But what about all those electric cars that were going to be charged during > "off-peak"? Suddenly, the fabulous electric car doesn't look so wonderful > anymore, does it...particularly with the new rates. And then wait until they > add a road tax! Not to mention other side effects.. like the cost to consumers to replace appliances like refrigerators more often as the repeated power cycles and motor wear (needed to make up for the down time) caused by regular outages. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Senior Engineer-Qualcomm-http://www.miguelito.org ..I'm sure that if I were wandering naked across the Serengeti Plain and happened to come across a pride of lions who were feeling peckish, they'd show me the same f'g courtesy. Come on, in less time than it takes to say "Two all-Miller patties" I'd be chili con carnage. -- Dennis Miller on Vegetarianism.
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