On the recordMay 23, 2001
It is not the 14 plants that have just been approved, four or five of them are going to be on-line this summer, many more will be on-line by next summer. Californians are working overtime in conservation. We are second only to Rhode Island in using less electricity per person. When new statistics are available, I am sure we will be first. Even the President of the United States praised California's efforts at conservation. Although, frankly, it was kind of back-handed. He was not doing it to praise California, he was doing it to insult conservation, on the theory that anything being done in California was unworthy of being embraced as national policy. We are doing all we can except for this huge blockage, and that is a Federal Government that will not let us regulate the price at the wholesale level, and will not regulate the price itself and huge transfers of wealth to a few big corporations.
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