When was the last time you heard of any of them building a power plant? Enron
certainly never built any. They only invested in "real" resources when their
execs could get a big enough bonus for doing it.
I'm sure there's enough blame to go around, though. The excesses typical of
American consumers, to wit, the current craze for gas-guzzling SUV's, despite
the poor safety record and terrible pollution and fuel economy of the most
popular models, certainly contribute to the problem.
Hey ... all you heavy-metal computing freaks ... how about converting all your
logic to CMOS? That will save you each about $1k per month on power, won't
it?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Dittman" <dittman_at_dittman.net>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: China bans toxic American computer junk
> > >That's called supply & demand.
> >
> > Supply and demand only set the prices in a perfect competition scheme,
> > which CA wasn't. CALPEX was a seller's "market". It's always
> > been that way in CA; just research Hetch-Hetchy and PG&E and
> > you'll find a century's worth of abuse of the consumers by the
> > utilities.
>
> California voters approved deregulation. What did they expect
> would happen? There's not enough power generation in California,
> so the prices go up.
>
> > > The people in left coast refused
> > >all attempts to build different types of power plants, but refused
> > >to limit their growth. No surprise that they ran short on power.
> > >I don't see why they expected the same power companies they had
> > >been opposing all those years to give them cheap power.
> >
> > Those power companies had consistently shown that they invested
> > their money with poor judgment and almost always resulting
> > in cost overruns, greater than expected environmental damage,
> > costly stranded assets... A lot of it was the companies'
> > fault, not the consumers'.
>
> Those same companies have built the same types of power plants
> in other states without any problems. Most of the perceived
> problems were the environmentalists blowing things out of
> proportion and making things up. The citizens in California
> refused to allow the power plants to be built, and (surprise!)
> they have a power shortage, while the citizens in other states
> let the power plants be built, and (no surprise) we have enough
> power.
> --
> Eric Dittman
> dittman_at_dittman.net
> Check out the DEC Enthusiasts Club at http://www.dittman.net/
>
Received on Sat Jun 08 2002 - 18:33:17 BST