[antinomian]

Among his suggestions was California's decision to decouple energy company profits from sales two decades ago, keeping the state's electricity consumption flat while the rest of the states have experienced a 60 percent increase.

I guess Woolsey missed that whole California energy crises thing - the one that cost Gray Davis his job. Shortages are what happens when you try to "decouple profits from sales".

[DaveTesla]

“decouple profits from sales”(TM) Karl Marx all rights reserved...

Say, isn’t that what Chavez is trying to do?

[kenth]

keeping the state’s electricity consumption flat while the rest of the states have experienced a 60 percent increase.

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I suppose when you cap the amount of energy the state can produce or pay for, it’s only natural that there won’t be an increase in usage. It’s not there to use. LOL.

Yeah, sitting in the dark is not an acceptable form of energy policy for the United States.