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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Robert Dewar wrote in message
<5ee5b646.0205250740.196d20c5@posting.google.com>...
>"Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com> wrote in message
news:<acnp5u$a28$1@bob.news.rcn.net>...
>>  If your point is that US consumers are not willing to pay more for
>> enviromentally friendly products, I can think of many
counterexamples. In
>> several areas of the country, you can now choose your electric
company. When
>> consumers were given a choice, many opted for energy producers who
charged
>> substantially higher rates, but promised to generate the electricity
more
>> cleanly.
>
>
>Can you cite chapter and verse on this? Sounds like the
>kind of thing that someone heard someone else say and
>uncritically passed it on. People always like to pass
>on things that are consistent with their political
>agendas :-)

Our local electric company in Madison (of which I am a stockholder)
sells blocks of wind power to customers here for a surcharge over the
regular rate. They claim to have sold them out and have a waiting list
(and this is confirmed by the financial statements).

I can't say anything about that in general, but certainly it is true in
a small way here in Madison.

                Randy Brukardt.