At 08:35 AM 12/17/00 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
The reality is the NW people got what they deserved. They voted to use the Cali. power grid instead of their own.
No injustice or wrong has occured here because everyone got a say. You reap what you sow.
It's a market thing, or as liberals would say, it's about sharing. Power generation capacity on the West Coast normally balances between California air conditioning in the summer and Northwest heating in the winter, and if each area had enough capacity for all its needs, the system would be way overbuilt. I don't know if Northwesters are as aggressive Not In My Back Yarders as Californians about building power plants, but it's much more efficient to use a power grid. Except, of course, when you overload it and stress the capacity limits and have stuff catch fire in the summer... Besides, Jim, as a Texan your tradition role in discussions of natural gas policies is supposed to be to say "let the bastards freeze in the dark" :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639