8 Jun
2002
8 Jun
'02
11:33 a.m.
When was the last time you heard of any of them building a power plant? Enron
certainly never built any. They only invested in "real" resources when their
execs could get a big enough bonus for doing it.
I'm sure there's enough blame to go around, though. The excesses typical of
American consumers, to wit, the current craze for gas-guzzling SUV's, despite
the poor safety record and terrible pollution and fuel economy of the most
popular models, certainly contribute to the problem.
Hey ... all you heavy-metal computing freaks ... how about converting all your
logic to CMOS? That will save you each about $1k per month on power, won't
it?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Dittman" <dittman(a)dittman.net>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: China bans toxic American computer junk
California voters approved deregulation. What did they expect
would happen? There's not enough power generation in California,
so the prices go up.
Those same companies have built the same types of power plants
in other states without any problems. Most of the perceived
problems were the environmentalists blowing things out of
proportion and making things up. The citizens in California
refused to allow the power plants to be built, and (surprise!)
they have a power shortage, while the citizens in other states
let the power plants be built, and (no surprise) we have enough
power.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
Check out the DEC Enthusiasts Club at http://www.dittman.net/
That's called supply & demand.
Supply and demand only set the prices in a perfect competition scheme,
which CA wasn't. CALPEX was a seller's "market". It's always
been that way in CA; just research Hetch-Hetchy and PG&E and
you'll find a century's worth of abuse of the consumers by the
utilities. The
people in left coast refused
all attempts to build different types of power plants, but refused
to limit their growth. No surprise that they ran short on power.
I don't see why they expected the same power companies they had
been opposing all those years to give them cheap power.
Those power companies had consistently shown that they invested
their money with poor judgment and almost always resulting
in cost overruns, greater than expected environmental damage,
costly stranded assets... A lot of it was the companies'
fault, not the consumers'.