----- Original Message -----
From: "Wirt Atmar" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: California mess (was: Vast RW Conspiracy (was:
encryption/compression))


> My comment last week:
>
> >I suspect that the entire energy mess in California has been one giant
> >conspiracy by Texas Republicans to make Gray Davis, the Democratic
governor
> >of California, look bad.
>
> ...got me a lot of private email during the last weekend. I only had time
to
> respond to one correspondent and time to now to respond to the list. I
wrote
> this in part last Saturday:
>
Still unanswered is my question (or statement) from a previous email -"Power
generation capability has not kept up with demand".  If this is true than
eventually we will have a problem, no matter what legal steps are taken.  If
it
is not,, than I can see that how market manipulation might be causing the
problem, BUT usually the two go hand in hand - there is a real shortage and
it is taken advantage of, which, of course, only makes it worse.  How log
has it been
since we have had any significant increase in power generation capability??

IMO (not so humble) it is time to push for new nuclear plants, built with
better
and safer technology than the old.

Nick D.

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