TX Co wants to put 1 billion $s into Iowa's transmission lines


On 6/2/2011 10:46 AM, William Witt wrote:
> Good job, Wally.
> The other fallacy in the Big IOU propaganda is always claiming that 
> it's all about output to meet constantly rising demand.  Demand 
> reduction--/conservation/-- is another key to getting our energy 
> economics where they need to be.  Alternative sources, distributed 
> generation, and demand reduction increase consumers' security...but 
> threaten short-term ROI (return on investment) for big-time 
> stockholders.  The Biggies further profit from rate-payer and 
> tax-payer subsidizing and underwriting of their investment risks in 
> new plant construction, cost-shift or divest their lower-profit 
> operations like transmission, and fight environmental and public 
> health regulations and enforcement.
> Bill Witt
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Pam Mackey-Taylor 
> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>     Wally Taylor wrote an oped on Shattering the Myth of Baseload.  It
>     appeared this past weekend in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.  The link is:
>
>     http://thegazette.com/2011/05/27/shattering-the-myth-of-baseload/
>
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