Subject: Re: Headline News E-mail Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:16:47 -0400 To: "'bob@cosy.com'" From: cnnimx02-Administrator Message

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> Name: Bob= Armstrong
> email: bob@cosy.com
> Hometown: New York
> Zip: 10038
> anchor/show: Headline News
> Comment: The blackout was caused more by restrictions and= disincentives on the energy business than too Little= regulation.
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>       I think the most balanced= comments I've seen on the causes of the black out are from Jim= Lesczynski in this week's Village Choice from the= http://www.manhattanlp.org :
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>       A couple of observations= came to me during my 26 hours without such
>       modern conveniences as= electric lighting and flush toilets. First,
>       whatever turns out to be= the cause of the blackout (assuming we ever get
>       the real story), you can= safely bet that the underlying problem will be
>       our mercantilist system of= pseudo-privatized, faux-deregulated electric
>       utilities. Every= bureaucrat and NIMBY environmental activist who ever
>       stood in the way of power= plant construction or bold innovation bares
>       some responsibility for the= blackout.
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