"John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
>
>For those of you out there who think that California's deregulation was a
>bad idea, what solution do you propose that solves the following dillemmas:
>
>1) California produces far less power than it consumes
>2) The purchasing of power from out-of-State is very, very, expensive
>during peak times.
I'll take the obvious and presumably dumb option: finish deregulation and
eliminate the consumer price limits imposed on the power "transport"
companies, and let them pass the high costs for the current scheme on to the
consumer. That would make it more economically attractive to build power
generators in CA. It would also encourage consumers to engage in power
savings if their bills went up 400% - I can't imagine it would be hard to
cut power usage by 50% by actually following all of the recommendations made
by various groups.
And, as always, if it gets too expensive to live in CA there are 49 other
states, many of which are much cheaper to live in and don't threaten to fall
into the ocean regularly. :)
Right now the Pacific Northwest is being gouged - from the 5 minutes of news
I catch a day, I seem to recall that the feds have mandated that power from
the PNW must be sold ubercheap to CA - and also simply *must* be sold,
potentially causing power outages here even though we have tons of local
power generation.
Joshua
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