I think you posted this on the wrong list. This is for colloidal silver, not political discussions.
Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tel Tofflemire" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:46 PM Subject: CS>California's fake power shortage > CNET | Price comparisons | Product reviews | Business solutions | News | > Downloads | Site map > > Free e-mail > > > > > > > > > > OT but real news > > > > April 5, 2001 > CNET | Web Building Dispatch > > California's fake power shortage > California's power crisis directly affects the technology economy, and > there's > no solution in sight. > I'm getting regional this week, but CNET is headquartered in California, so > we > get firsthand > experience with this power problem. From the ground level, rolling blackouts > don't seem so bad. > Work shuts down for a couple of hours, small groups of people congregate in > the > halls, cell phones > light up, and you might have to reset the VCR when you get home. > > But when sites go down--especially retail sites--money is lost. Online > consumers > are fickle enough > that if they can't buy right when they're thinking of it, then they either > won't, or they'll go to another > source. Business-to-business sites can usually withstand a two-hour delay, > as > contracts and > approval take a little longer. Considering the downturn in the economy, > this is > not the time to be > having a power crunch, and the really sad thing is that there's no good > reason > for it. > > Unlike the power crisis of the '70s, we're not really low on power, despite > President Bush's > exploitation of this situation as a reason to allow oil companies to drill > in > U.S. national monuments > and parks. California's power deregulation experiment set up a system where > power generators > could charge excessive rates, and utilities would be forced to pay to > maintain > supply. Many > generators that haven't been paid by the cash-strapped utilities are > withholding > supply. The state > needs to help the utilities to pay their debts, while power prices have to > be > capped in order to allow > a reasonable profit margin for generators. And watch out for power > deregulation > legislation in your > own countries and states. > > > > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > > > > > > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > > > > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > > > > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > > > > > > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
