Posted on 01/22/2005 12:18:05 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Stuff It CA!
Why does California get all this attention on FR?
The state sponsored closing of San Onofre unit 1, Rancho Seco, and Oregon's Trojan nuke plants are really coming back to haunt the CA enviro weenies.
No, I don't see any surprises here.
I do have to admit that with the tax breaks being handed out to wind farms, that I am seeing a real lot of demand by those wanting to farm the tax credits and benefits of wind power.
Because the ENTIRE state is FUed!
Yes, lets drain Hetch Hetch reservoir while we're at it and take 5 clean renewable resource hydroelectric plants off line.
The governor you know is paying for a study to have hetch hetchy drained.
Some well-meaning but ignorant people (and some well-informed, but delibertately lying demagogues) are saying it's due to "deregulation." But wait a minute. The state government mandated where and how power companies must buy power at wholesale. And forced them to sell their power-generating facilities. And delayed and prevented construction of new power plants. And they NEVER removed the ban on competition within THE SAME GEOGRAPHICAL AREA. And they NEVER removed their caps on RETAIL prices. And more. You call ALL THAT "deregulation"??? Huh??? Give me a break!
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| "Since the 2001 electricity crisis, two California utilities have become insolvent, the state has entered long-term contracts to buy electricity at exorbitant rates and the electricity trading industry has gone into near collapse ... [due to] conflicting policy directions being pursued for the industry at the state and federal levels." HERE |
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| *Enron, of course, is exactly the kind corporation which could not exist in pure capitalism. As a creature, in effect, of politicians, it was deliberately converted from a small pipeline company into an international conglomerate by conniving scoundrels who designed it from the beginning to use the power of their politician-friends to give it government contracts, subsidies, monopoly powers, and favorable regulations to force prospective customers to do business with them, essentially at gunpoint. This, of course, is fascism, not capitalism, and what you get more and more of when you work to transform what was once the rule of clear-cut law into the rule of men (especially hair-splitting judges and lawyers). |
| "Environmental crusaders have spent the past 30 years influencing ignorant, unprincipled or gullible politicians to pass new laws and create new agencies that affect everything from oil, to natural gas, to nuclear power, to electricity. The net result is that manacles have effectively been slapped around the ankles of power suppliers, creating a huge disincentive for them to construct any new (and what certainly would be more energy efficient) power plants." -- Wayne Dunn |
Where did you learn your economics? From network news anchor robots? Headline writers working for hack newspaper editors? Well, learn this fast: Price controls cause shortages; government-mandated price ceilings inspire consumers to buy more; they take away efficient producers' incentives to produce more, they make marginal producers go out of business, they even give producers incentives to produce less, and they scare away anyone who might have invested in new production facilities (duh). Read a few concise explanations of price controls HERE.
SOOOoooo... Thanks for the blackouts,
stupid price-controllers and fanatic tree-huggers!
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ENRON: The story is about Bad Business AND Worse Government. It's HERE.
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You missed something: New pollution controls on power plants. CA: AQMD's Burke vows to get tough on smog
No, I don't see any surprises here either, including tacitly discounting the role of energy investors in the use of enviro-racketeering for fun and profit.
I do have to admit that with the tax breaks being handed out to wind farms, that I am seeing a real lot of demand by those wanting to farm the tax credits and benefits of wind power.
Spending money posturing about "renewable energy" while producing negligeable amounts of electrical power is exactly what said investors desire.
CA has nuke power - there's a plant north of San Diego about 1-1/2 hours drive. But .. it's small and it doesn't have much coverage.
Besides .. this is the same garbage they were saying 2-3 years ago. I never turned off my TV or turned down my heat, or turned off my lights in the evening - and we never had a power outage.
The outside lights on the building which houses SDG&E in downtown San Diego - uses more electricity than than the rest of the city. I'm not going to be concerned until they turn off all those lights.
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