Good points. But you'll be happy to know that I bought 100 shares of enron
yesterday. Now I own your ass!

>From: Jeff.Dasovich@enron.com
>To: "Scott Laughlin" <scottwl@hotmail.com>
>CC: cameron@perfect.com, eldon@interx.net, jdasovic@enron.com,
>JJfreedom@earthlink.net, Nancy.Sellers@RobertMondavi.com,
>psellers@Haas.Berkeley.EDU
>Subject: Re: letter
>Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:50:01 -0500
>
>
>This thing's been floating around the web for a while.  Show's what's wrong
>with good ol' California.  To wit:
>
>    We want federal water subsidies so we can kill the fish and grow rice
>    and grapefruit in the desert ("and we'll keep it all for us?").
>    Let's drive our freakin' gas-guzzlin' SUVs all over, but hey, who needs
>    to invest in roads; and somebody else come quick and clean up our air
>    from all those emissions.
>    And we're 49th in the nation for spending on education.  Great stuff.
>    Now, we've decided we want other state's with less sophisticated people
>    (in places like Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico) to
>    build power plants (and pollution) in their states to feed electricity,
>    and dam their rivers and kill their salmon so that we can heat our hot
>    tubs and STILL pay 3 cents a kilowatt hour.
>    And oh, by the way, it's federal taxes and the military industrial
>    complex which has funded CA's weapons industry and communications
>    industry.  As no big fan of the military industrial comples, I'm just
>    crying crocodile tears.
>
>Generally the kind of self-righteous doo-doo that turns people off to what
>is an otherwise great place to be.
>
>Yours in tender diatribes,
>Jeff
>
>PS Scott, I think that you're absolutely right:  drilling in the Arctic
>Refuge in good for America....
>
>
>
>                     "Scott
>                     Laughlin"            To:     cameron@perfect.com,
>eldon@interx.net,
>                     <scottwl@hotm        JJfreedom@earthlink.net,
>jdasovic@enron.com,
>                     ail.com>             Nancy.Sellers@RobertMondavi.com,
>                                          psellers@Haas.Berkeley.EDU
>                     04/06/2001           cc:
>                     03:12 PM             Subject:     letter
>
>
>
>
>
>Hope this doesn't piss Jeff off too much...
>
>
>America has engaged in some finger wagging lately because California
>doesn't have enough electricity to meet its needs. The rest of the
>country (including George W. Bush's energy secretary Spencer Abraham,
>who wants Californians to suffer through blackouts as justification for
>drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) seems to
>be just fine with letting Californians dangle in the breeze without
>enough power to meet their needs. They laugh at Californians'
>frivolity.
>
>Well, everybody. Here's how it really is: California ranks 48th in the
>nation in power consumed per person. California grows more than half the
>nation's fruit, nuts and vegetables. We're keeping them. We need something
>to eat when the power goes out. We grow 99 percent or more of the nation's
>almonds, artichokes, dates, figs, kiwi fruit, olives, persimmons,
>pistachios, prunes, raisins and walnuts. Hope you won't miss them.
>
>California is the nation's number one dairy state. We're keeping our
>dairy products. We'll need plenty of fresh ones since our refrigerators
>can't be relied upon. Got milk?
>
>We Californians are gonna keep all our high-tech software in state.
>Silicon Valley is ours, after all. Without enough electricity, which
>you're apparently keeping for yourselves, we just plain don't have
>enough software to spare.
>
>We're keeping all our airplanes. California builds a good percentage of
>the commercial airliners available to fly you people to where you want
>to go. When yours wear out, you'd better hope Boeing's Washington plant
>can keep you supplied. There isn't enough electricity here to allow us
>to export any more planes than we need ourselves.
>
>And while we're at it, we're keeping all our high-tech aerospace stuff,
>too, like the sophisticated weapons systems that let you sleep at
>night, not worried you might wake up under the rule of some foreign
>kook. [As opposed to some domestic kook]
>
>Oh, yeah, and if you want to make a long-distance call, remember where
>the satellite components and tracking systems come from. Maybe you
>could get back in the habit of writing letters.
>
>Want to see a blockbuster movie this weekend? Come to California. We
>make them here. Since we'll now have to make them with our own
>electricity, we're keeping them. Even if we shot them somewhere else,
>the labs, printing facilities, editing facilities, and sound facilities
>are all here.
>
>Want some nice domestic wine? We produce over 17 million gallons per
>year. We'll need all of it to drown our sorrows when we think about the
>fact that no matter how many California products we export to make the
>rest of America's lives better, America can't see its way clear to help
>us out with a little electricity. You can no longer have any of our
>wine.
>
>You all complain that we don't build enough power plants. Well, you
>don't grow enough food, write enough software, make enough movies,
>build enough airplanes and defense systems or make enough wine.
>
>This is your last warning, America. Lighten (us) up before it's too late.
>
>Love,
>
>The Californians
>
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