CA: Senator warns of energy shortage (FRightkenstein)

Sac Bee ^ | 1/13/04 | David Whitney

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein has raised the prospects of another electricity shortage as early as this summer in a letter asking Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to embrace immediate measures to control prices and speed construction of new generating plants.

Among her proposals is that consumer prices charged by the state's three investor-owned utilities, including Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison, be based on their costs rather than the less flexible three-year rate schedule process now used by the California Public Utility Commission.

[NormsRevenge]

Dianne Feinstein: The Democratic senator said loss of some power plants will hurt energy supplies.

[princess leah]

Where was she when Davis was jacking up the energy prices and bankrupting the electric companies?

[So Cal Rocket]

Where was she when Davis was jacking up the energy prices and bankrupting the electric companies?

...and making it a regulatory impossibility to build a new power plant.

[TheDon]

Among her proposals is that consumer prices charged by the state's three investor-owned utilities, including Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison, be based on their costs rather than the less flexible three-year rate schedule process now used by the California Public Utility Commission.

Has the Devil ordered a heater from anyone lately?

[Reeses]

forcing investor-owned utilities to plan and construct more than enough generating capacity to meet demand forecasts

They think the socialist state has arrived. Despite all Feinstein's gun confiscation laws, it hasn't.

They've got more time than they think. When the economy takes off, the last in line to see it will be California.

[backhoe]

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[Mr. Jeeves]

Where was she when Davis was jacking up the energy prices and bankrupting the electric companies?

Davis is gone now, and they need the issue to use against Bush this summer, so Dianne sent this little note out to preempt any wild talk about "excessive snowpacks". It's a crisis, darn it! People are hurting out here, and it's all George Bush's and Ken Lay's fault!

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks! How quickly we forget, eh? ;-)

[nicepaco]

Use Indian Tribes to build power plants

I wonder if this would really cut the red tape? It's a shame to resort to gimmicks but I'd support anything that works.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Amazing, it still works!

Is anybody using the lists though?

[backhoe]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[chimera]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[backhoe]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[heleny]

Use Indian Tribes to build power plants.

Great idea! There must be some problem with either profit or regulations....

If the economy in CA improves more quickly, we could have an energy shortage again, since nothing has really changed in the supply since 2000 or 2001.