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Article #638Re: Greens say wind power kills birds
From: Merlin Dorfman
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:42
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:42
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BitHead (eflorack@rochester.rr.com) wrote:
: On 10 Jun 2001 15:50:44 GMT, Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@rahul.net> wrote:
: >Birdie Bits (bb@wbirdbitzk.com) wrote:
: >
: >
: >: =================================================
: >: California doesn't have power because the nuts there oppose
: >: power plants, even wind machines, but the CA nuts want to
: >: blame Texas instead.
: >: =================================================
: >
: > The truth of the matter, of course, is that NO applications
: >to build power plants have been turned down.
: Ah, so you're blaming the power companies for not building power
: plants. Tell me, why would they not want to?
No blame, just the facts. The facts are that in the
economic climate that immediately followed deregulation, it
was not at all clear that power could be sold for a reasonable
price over its cost of production. Therefore the power
companies saw the risk of investing in construction as out of
proportion to the likely return. Turns out they were wrong--
they could have made lots of money--but it wasn't clear at
that time.
In other words, no conspiracy to drive up prices; just
plain old economics.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,33c7452f72f9b111 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: fd714,1f7b9be050e990de X-Google-Attributes: gidfd714,public X-Google-Thread: 1141a2,411295b64aba9b7e X-Google-Attributes: gid1141a2,public X-Google-Thread: fb9af,411295b64aba9b7e X-Google-Attributes: gidfb9af,public X-Google-Thread: 10a942,e651d05d32dcacbe X-Google-Attributes: gid10a942,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-24 14:43:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!feedwest.news.agis.net!us.telia.net!news.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!dorfman.a2i!dorfman From: Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@rahul.net> Newsgroups: talk.rumors,alt.politics,ca.general,alt.california,tx.politics Subject: Re: Greens say wind power kills birds Followup-To: talk.rumors,alt.politics,ca.general,alt.california,tx.politics Date: 24 Jun 2001 21:42:57 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 30 Message-ID: <9h5mt1$a0e$1@samba.rahul.net> References: <3B2321A1.266DCA4B@newsguy.com> <9077777777777777777777704kfg49@pezland.net> <9g050k$jbv$1@samba.rahul.net> <3b32b92e.829673@news> NNTP-Posting-Host: waltz.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: dorfman X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]