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It's pretty simple really. Bruce Brugmann has this totally absurd idea
that PG&E doesn't want the plant built because the City might use
it as an anchor for public power, (an assumption that is highly
questionable because of the expense of the peakers and the likelihood
that they will put the City into deep debt amidst rising natural gas
prices). But in Bruce's mind anything that PG&E doesn't like must
be good, and so he sees the peakers as a public power move to oust
PG&E (never mind that it is a totally ridiculous idea to get public
power by polluting the City and the atmosphere). The truth is that a
small 150 megawatt peaker plant wouldn't do a damned thing to anchor
public power in the City. He is unable to see the issue as the very
complex game that it actually is, and he is equally unable to get
through his head that no matter what PG&E wants, this planet cannot
handle any more fossil fuel plants.<br>
The real reason that PG&E is opposing the peaker plant is that this
gives them an excuse to propose their spending upwards of $500 million
on a transmission upgrade to prevent the peakers, and this will give
them still deeper control of our energy grid because it will make it
cost $500 million more to take over the PG&E lines.<br>
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This is why we need to keep pushing for a renewable energy solution
which will make both Mirant and the peakers unnecessary, -and- will
obviate any excuse for PG&E to build new transmission lines.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Eric...can you make sense of Bruce and the Bay Guardian editorial board?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->It's as if they are in a self serving "outer space" on the Peaker issue.
Ahimsa
Hi all,
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<pre wrap="">See attached.
This communication shows clearly that we were misled by SFPUC staff and
that the new Peaker plant is not necessary.
peace
Eric Brooks
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"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara</pre>
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