California utility rejects cheap power from polluting coal plant

The Press Enterprise (AP) ^ | December 14, 2006 | Samantha Young

[calcowgirl]

FYI.

[crazyhorse46]

And when California starts having shortages, they will be begging for our coal fired energy.

[Godzilla]

Then let them freeze to death in the dark, stupid people.

[Bender2]

Gadzooks! Why can't Lex Luther hurry up and create all that Nevada and Arizona beach front property?

Opps... Yeah... Superman stopped him... Darnit!

[patton]

You are missing the irony of their idiotic stance - they will be buying the coal-produced energy anyway. See, CA will pay a green company in VA to produce green enrgy, and sell it to CA. The VA company will dump the power on the grid in va, and trade it to the coal fired plant in Utah for their power, which will then be shipped to CA.

So, in effect, the californians have just taxed themselves 30% on their power bills to clean up the environment in VA.

I suppose VA should thank them, when we stop laughing.

[amchugh]

It is unfortunate that my state legislature doesn't understand market forces. Please don't gloat too much in the comments guys, some of us had no say in this, but have to pay for it anyway.

[calcowgirl]

Every dem legislator voted for SB 1368; every Republican against it.

Unfortunately, the Governor's veto pen was MIA.

[Amerigomag]

The genie is out of the bottle. The Austrian moron is in the wild.

All the logic, all the facts and all the king's men can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

Energy production from ag refuse in CA is a similar scam and VA utilities are up to their ears in those deals also.

Who pays the freight? PG&E customers. Who benefits. VA utility stockholders and customers.

And so it goes.

[patton]

Yep. Thanks, BTW. I stopped laughing a few moments ago.

But I am still grinning...

The truly sad part is that the idiots that enacted this, have NO CLUE where their electricity comes from...VA does.

OK, now I am laughing again...

[NormsRevenge]

voted to reject a 50-year contract to obtain energy from a planned coal plant in Utah ..

Brilliant!!!

[HKMk23]

ON BEHALF OF ALL CALIFORNIANS:

WE APOLOGIZE THAT OUR "LEADERS" DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF "FUNGIBLE".

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Don't worry, RINOLD will provide CA's electricity by running one of his box-office bombs continuously.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[SierraWasp]

I was extremely surprised that Truckee would even consider this deal, rather than reject it in a New Yark minute! The town is literally lousy with liberals and gourged with GANG-GREEN EnvironMentalist NIMBY's and BANANA's.

Some of the elements responsible for joining Bobby Kennedy, Jr and Arnoiled Schwartzenfrauder in slapping eastern CA with the Sierra-Nevada CONswervancy as a giant land-use tyranny over all the local governments closest to the people are from Truckee!!!

If they had brain one, they'd buy their enengy from a nuclear plant or a hydroelectic dam generator to "save the damned environment!" Coal throws out a thousand times the radiation into the atmosphere as does a nuclear plant which throws out .0000000000000000000000000000000001% in a millenium!!!

[SierraWasp]

OUR "LEADERS" DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF "FUNGIBLE"

I know! They think it's a treatment for a danged yeast infection, or maybe a fungicide!!!

[trane250]

While the new-age mealy mouths in CA are thumbing their noses at coal-generated power, their pragmatic neighbors in Nevada just approved a very large new coal-fired generating plant near Ely in White Pine County.

http://www.sierrapacificresources.com/projects/ely/

[SierraWasp]

That's only because the fruity and nutty Californians are only moving to Truckee Meadows and Lost Wages!!! You'll not find ANY Cauleeforneeuns, or Schwartzenegger's exurban refugees re-nesting is fridgid, windy and bitter cold Ely, NV!!!

Everybody can walk on Ely's water nowadays!!!

[G Larry]

That's ok, they'll later sue the energy industy for price manipulation, because they were unwilling to buy energy in the futures market and then having no choice but to buy at much higher spot market prices.

The stupidity of politicians is always blamed on industry.

[Czar]

"OUR "LEADERS" DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF "FUNGIBLE"

What they do understand is that they do not want to piss off the environmental wackos lest they lose an ally for the next election cycle.