That's called supply & demand. 
  
You wouldn't say that if it had been YOUR money, either wasted on the excesses
 of the "free-market-captialism" practiced by the power-middle-men, who really
 produced nothing other than waste and really did nothing but steal, first from
 their victims, and later from their own help. 
 
I haven't been running around for years voting against power
plants.  I also refuse to live in California, which is over-
populated anyway.  The constant water shortage is a good example.
  If it's the LEFT coast, you must be in the South.
If you were from the North,
 the West coast would be the Right coast, and the East coast would be the Wrong
 coast, Right?  You're right about the stupid consumption habits.  It's the
 result of lower rates per kwh for more kwh's.  If 10x the amount of power cost
 10^10 as much people would behave differently.  I'd get behind a rate schedule
 that reflected n^(n^2) rates so the megacorp that uses 1000 times as much
 power as the little homeowner would have to pay 10^1000 as much for every kwh
 he uses.  I'd also get behind that for gasoline rationing. 
Most of the people I know call California the left coast, both in
the north and south (except for the liberals).
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