From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 20 2:57: 1 2000 From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 02:56:59 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from greg.ad9.com (greg.ad9.com [64.161.198.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F8937B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:56:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from greg.ad9.com (nepolon@greg.ad9.com [64.161.198.140]) by greg.ad9.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA16130 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:13:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:13:16 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Lewis X-Sender: nepolon@greg.ad9.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CA Power Shortage (was Re: Why do you support Yahoo!) In-Reply-To: <20001219212210.M96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > That's really strange. A lot of the current shortage is due to the > fact that the power companies are legally not allowed to pass higher > costs to the consumers. A lot of out-of-state power producers will not > import to California because they can't get the market price and they > are afraid the power companies will not have the money to pay them > with rates capped like they are. Except when, as recently, California government officials invoke some ancient war-time law which forces Oregon power utilities to sell power to California at prices set by the purchaser, despite the fact that areas of Oregon are already locking down power usage for the locals. I have heard a whole new wave of anti-Cali jokes the last week... --Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message