Re: [pf] Risks, imposed or chosen

by Jill Taylor Bussiere

18 December 2000 02:30 UTC

Good point, Vicki.  Also, the savings that the power companies promised are
not there - in fact from what I have heard and read, costs to the consumer
have doubled, and sometimes tripled.  Perhaps that will make us more careful
about our useage, but again, people were misled.

I do like the choice part though - and if we were fully informed about what
those choices entailed, as David listed previously, then perhaps more of us
would support renewable energies and conservation.

                    Jill

> I would like to know all of the above about all my purchasing choices, in
> other words, to know the true cost.
>
> But on the deregulation issue, we have just been through the process of
> deregulating electricity in NYC. Money savings are extremely negligable; I
> blinked and I missed them. But...the bigger issue is that there is now no
> incentive to decrease energy usage. When Con Ed was the only supplier,
they
> had a mandate from the city to decrease usage in order to avoid brownouts
> and blackouts. Now, there is no one supplier that can be told to do so,
and
> the whole POINT of competition between suppliers is to supply MORE rather
> than LESS. Now they all want to build more power plants. It has totally
> backfired on us.
>
> Vicki
>
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