Mitt Romney wants to lay an oil pipeline over this water supply...

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14. That was market manipulation in 2000, largely by one company - Enron

The market rules that allowed that were changed and areas of the country that have competitive markets have safeguards in place to deal with unfair trading activities. Has nothing to do with NIMBY's.

We are going to lose anywhere from 50,000 to 80,000 MW of coal-fired generation in the next three or four years because of EPA actions and changing economics. Many here are cheering that, but at the same time, they are fighting against the shale gas development that will fuel the natural gas plants being built to replace the retiring coal plants. Does this make sense? Not to me.

IMO, it's questionable whether the power grids will be as reliable over the next few years as they've historically. If they are not and we do have blackouts, NIMBY's will likely be wearing a lot of the blame.