The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
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The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.
So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.
We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.
I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.
You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.
We have enough to worry about with what's happening in our nation to worry about what's happening in California. Keep your feet grounded in your own backyard and together we're going to build communities that work.
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