Comments on: Biggest solar farm eclipsed

By: Larry-Klamath River

Larry-Klamath River — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:57:03 +0000

All of these issues can be fixed with dams that provide clean energy, drinking water, and irrigation water. Wind and solar are not the answer, plus they violate every policy the environmentalists stand for. They pollute the wild landscape with their appearance, kill tens of thousands of birds, and remove wildlife habitat. Perhaps they should populate their city parks with these monstrosities rather than the rural landscape and see how they like that.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:37:34 +0000

In reply to Ulysses Uhaul.

UU: Yes, markup. Buffet isn’t ‘trying’ to do anything. He merely bought a utility that siphons away the northwest’s hydropower to a market (California) that is so schizophrenic with conflicting utopian ideals. And “high cost of doing business morass”, why my dear Ulysses, you’ve been lashed to the mast far too long. The sirens’ song of palm trees and warm winters has now become a screeching cacophony of taxes, regulation and rising fixed costs. You sound like a real doomer. I don’t think Warren Buffet is bringing ‘positive change’ to California anymore than Enron was back in 2000-2001.

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 03:43:02 +0000

Markup?

You should kiss Buffet’s ring for even trying to bring technology and clean energy to this high cost of doing business morass.

It is laughable. Never ever are any doomers complimentry to those who bring positive change to California.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 15:56:15 +0000

Ahem, if I may, it is not Warren Buffet’s hydropower,at least initially, it is the states of Washington and Oregon’s hydropower, harvested (renewably) by the US Federal Government via the Bonneville Power Authority and sold to Pacificorp (owned by Mr. Buffet), who then resells it, at a steep markup, to consumers in California.

By: Jim Reardon

Jim Reardon — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 05:33:09 +0000

If you satiate the rent-seekers, you get no serious challenge from the voters. Life is good for the CPUC, unchallenged by the utilities, while paying the “ratepayer advocates” to exist.

So long as the money keeps flowing to all these groups, there will be no serious regulation of utilities in California.