[33671] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Second day of rolling blackouts starts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Duncan)
Thu Jan 18 21:42:09 2001
Message-Id: <200101190204.VAA06334@rtp-msg-core-1.cisco.com>
From: Jim Duncan <jnduncan@cisco.com>
To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:54:40 EST." <20010118195440.A13822@eiv.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:05:02 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Shawn McMahon writes:
> X amount of power takes Y amount of money to produce.
>
> You can either pay it to a state-sponsored monopoly, or you can pay it to a
> private company competing freely, or you can force artificially low prices
> through pseudo-private companies operating under cap that generates Y minus
> N amount of income, and watch X minus N amount of power be generated.
>
> No amount of legislation will make Y minus N amount of money produce X amount
> of power. No company that is truly competing will charge Y minus N, because
> they make more money if they charge Y.
Are we gonna be graded on this later? They didn't cover this in
Engineering Economy last semester.
Jim
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