Governor Davis' top energy advisor has recently offered their authoritative
answer regarding status of interest in overunity power technologies to
replace nuclear and fossil fuel power as per recent Los Alamos Labs
verification of "sonofusion" aspect of previously debunked "cold fusion"
claims, recent patent issuance for solid state Motionless Electromagnetic
Generator, etc.

Due however to general lack of interest by news media, don't expect this
story to impact the elections, but afterwards look for this as the next
wave, the boost for the California and national and global economy as
transition to these new energy technologies develops/progresses.
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From: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@...>
Subject: Candidates' vision of California's energy future diverge
Date: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:26 AM

http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/4952577p-5963451c.html

Candidates' vision of California's energy future diverge

By JENNIFER COLEMAN, Associated Press Writer
Published 12:00 a.m. PDT Sunday, October 27, 2002

SACRAMENTO(AP) - Now that the lights are on, Californians' attentions have
turned to other pressing matters, such as education, budget cuts and
commuter-clogged highways. Though millions of customers are on the hook for
tens of billions of dollars of the state's power buying debt, energy
concerns have made barely a ripple in the governor's race.

The next governor will have a large role in shaping the state's energy
future, said Severin Borenstein, the director of the University of
California Energy Institute at Berkeley, but neither candidate is charting a
clear path for California's energy future.

"Eventually, the governor and the Legislature will have to revisit this.
We're sort of in the middle without a clear plan," he said. "Neither
candidate has really expressed a clear vision for what the electricity
system should look like in three years."

There's more discussion that looks backward, pointing fingers and placing
blame for the mess that California saw in 2000 and 2001 when wholesale
electricity rates skyrocketed, retail rates increased and blackouts rolled
across the state.

Republican challenger Bill Simon criticizes Gov. Gray Davis for not acting
fast enough when San Diego Gas & Electric Co. customers saw their
electricity bills triple in 2000 when a retail rate cap was lifted as part
of the deregulation of California's energy market.

Davis blames the energy crisis on crooked energy wholesalers who took
advantage of the state's botched deregulation attempt.

Simon has crafted a 10-step plan for the state's energy future that starts
with renegotiating the long-term contracts the state entered in 2001 and
ends with lessening regulation of retail electricity rates - which he calls
restoring "customer choice."

"That sounds nice, but when you get into the details, a lot of people,
including the electorate, would say that means deregulation," Borenstein
said.

Simon advocates lifting retail caps starting with the larger commercial
customers first, but only after the rest of the energy plan was put in
place, his aides said. Caps on rates for small business and residential
customers would be lifted later.

He would have a monitor overseeing retail prices, similar to the way the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission watches wholesale prices.

Davis has lambasted FERC for failing to protect California utilities and
consumers from the price spikes in the wholesale market in 2000 and 2001.

"We saw how much good FERC did us last year," said Roger Salazar, spokesman
for Davis' campaign.

Davis hasn't released an outline of his own energy plan because "he's
already put it into practice," Salazar said.

The governor wants to continue encouraging plant construction, conservation
and pushing for utilities to get 20 percent of their energy from renewable
sources, Salazar said.

Davis declared a state of emergency in January 2001 that allowed the state
to step in and buy energy for customer of the three near-broke utilities. He
then issued executive orders that streamlined the application process for
new power plants, implemented conservation programs and entered the state
into $43 billion worth of long-term energy contracts.

And he'll continue to push for $9 billion in refunds for electricity
overcharges during the height of the energy crisis, and continue to whittle
away at the more than $40 billion in energy contracts, Salazar said.

The long-term contracts looked like a good deal at the time, cutting the
cost of energy and helping to stabilize the energy market.

But since then, the cost of energy on the spot market has dropped to about
half the contract prices. Critics say Davis locked the state into those high
prices for the next decade.

Davis' staff has cut several billion from the original cost of the
contracts, but Simon, a businessman, says he could save the state even more
money by negotiating savings at the front end of the contracts. Many of
Davis' reworked deals trim costs from the end of the multiyear deals.

Simon's plan also calls for moving the state out of the power business -
which will happen automatically at the end of this year if the state's three
utilities are able to secure energy on their own.

And he would also abolish the state's new Power Authority, which can issue
up to $4 billion in bonds to build, buy or lease power plants. Those bonds
can also be used in public-private partnerships that would let companies get
low-cost loans, in return for the promise to sell the energy at low rates.

Simon says energy companies aren't interested in the Power Authority
financing because there are too many strings attached.

Power Authority Chief Executive Officer Laura Doll disputed that, saying the
fledgling agency has been approached by several energy companies seeking
financing for power plant projects.

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On the Net:

Gray Davis' campaign Web site: http://www.gray-davis.com/

Bill Simon's campaign Web site: http://www.simonforgovernor.com

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From: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@...>
Subject: governor bad for business?
Date: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:26 AM

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/4963798p-5974631c.html

Davis' record a mixed bag when it comes to business

By Dale Kasler -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Sunday, October 27, 2002

California has blossomed into the world's fifth-largest economy in the past
four years, aides to Gov. Gray Davis like to say, up from No. 7 when he took
office.

They also boast of the 1 million jobs created on Davis' watch, even allowing
for the layoffs of the past two years.

"Obviously a great accomplishment," said Lon Hatamiya, secretary of the
California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency. "There's no doubt he's
been good for business."

Yet business lobbyists say they've become disenchanted with the Democratic
governor in the past year.

They say he's signed several anti-business bills -- including higher
workers' compensation benefits and a first-in-the-nation paid family-leave
law -- to shore up his political base for re-election. They also blame him
for higher electricity bills that resulted from the energy crisis.

Davis' Republican challenger, Bill Simon, has begun blasting the governor's
economic policies, too. At many Simon campaign events, business owners
testify to the ruinous effects of rising operating expenses.

"Gray Davis: Bad for Business," trumpeted a recent statement from Simon
aides, accusing Davis of signing "job killer legislation" and quoting a
survey naming California's business climate as the nation's worst.

The Davis campaign defends his economic record -- and says Simon is in no
position to lecture Davis on business issues. He points to the Simon
family's disastrous investment in a pay-telephone company that ended with a
jury ordering the Simons to pay their former business partner $78 million in
fraud damages. The verdict was overturned, but the episode hurt Simon's
contention that his business background would serve California well.

As the political charges fly, an examination of Davis' business and economic
record reveals a mixed bag.

Nearly 1.2 million jobs have been added since Davis took office in January
1999. The unemployment rate fell from 6.2 percent to a 30-year low of 4.4
percent in December 2000.

But the nationwide slowdown and the high-tech implosion have hit California
hard, erasing 80,000 jobs in the past 13 months and ballooning the
unemployment rate to 6.1 percent.

The Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. reported recently that California
has slipped a notch in the rankings of the world's largest economies,
falling to No. 6 behind France. State officials dispute the report.

Meanwhile, California got poor marks in a recent survey of executives who
choose sites for new factories or offices. Some 57 percent said California
has the nation's "least favorable" business climate.

The last time the survey was conducted, in 1999, only 19 percent named
California as least favorable -- with 23 percent ranking California as the
top place to do business.

Hatamiya dismissed the survey results, saying the sheer size of California's
economy makes it a convenient target for critics. "People are always taking
shots at us," he said.

He cited other surveys portraying California in a more favorable light,
including a May report by Forbes magazine and the Santa Monica-based Milken
Institute that said California is home to eight of the 15 best U.S. cities
to do business in or advance one's career.

Still, some experts say attitudes toward California are starting to change.
They believe the downturn in the economy is probably breeding discontent
with California, reminding business executives of the high costs and other
things they never liked about the state.

In the late 1990s, when the economy was booming, executives paid little
attention to the cost of doing business in California, said Ross DeVol, an
economist with the Milken Institute, a nonprofit think tank founded by
financier Michael Milken.

Now that times are tough, "costs matter again, and they matter a lot," DeVol
said. "It becomes a bigger deal, especially for manufacturers. U.S.
manufacturers, and especially here in California, are focusing once again on
reducing costs. They're taking a very thorough look at which operations they
should have, and in what locations."

In a report commissioned by the California Manufacturers & Technology
Association -- and cited by Simon in his criticism of Davis -- the Milken
organization found that manufacturing costs in California are 32 percent
higher than the U.S. average.

DeVol, one of the report's authors, said the energy shock of 2000 and 2001
certainly didn't help California's cause. Four years ago the state's
electricity costs were 40 percent above the U.S. average; last year they'd
risen to almost double, according to his study.

Although electricity was deregulated by Davis' Republican predecessor, Pete
Wilson, many observers have blamed Davis for his handling of the crisis. The
state's leading investor-owned utilities, bled dry by rising wholesale power
costs, were granted record rate hikes in spring 2001.

Business lobbyists said Davis can't be faulted for the national slump, or
the meltdown in Silicon Valley. But they said the rising costs of doing
business under his administration are hurting California's chances of
winning new business once the economy recovers.

It's happened before. When the slumping aerospace industry consolidated in
the early 1990s, many of the manufacturing facilities left California
because they saw it as bad for business.

As a result, the state is getting relatively little boost from the military
buildup in the wake of the Sept. 1, 2001, terrorist attack, said Dorothy
Rothrock, vice president at the manufacturing association.

The same thing could occur when the tech economy bounces back, she said.

"If you can make a (computer) chip or whatever cheaper in Arizona or China,
why do it in California?" Rothrock said. "Those jobs were born in
California. The question is: Are they ever going to come back?"

She and other business lobbyists said Davis held to a centrist line his
first three years as governor, with one significant exception: his signature
on a 1999 bill that restored overtime pay for anyone putting in a workday
longer than eight hours. The Wilson administration had required that
overtime be paid only if someone worked more than 40 hours a week.

Other than that, Davis "was definitely concerned about the business climate,
very centrist, very moderate," said Martyn Hopper, state director for the
National Federation of Independent Businesses, the leading small-business
lobby. "He's tried to stop anti-business legislation before it gets to him."

This year, some lobbyists argue, Davis changed.

He signed into law an increase in workers' compensation benefits, after
vetoing increases two years in a row.

He signed a requirement that cars sold in California have lower exhaust
emissions. He signed a law extending the statute of limitations on personal
injury suits.

He signed a first-in-the-nation law requiring that employees be paid for
family leave. He signed two bills giving unionized farm workers greater
leverage in contract negotiations, although he vetoed a bill that would have
imposed binding arbitration on growers.

"He is less sympathetic to business, and has been over the course of the
last couple of months," Hopper said. "This is an election year."

Hopper and other business lobbyists said Davis' moves this year will have
very real effects. The workers' compensation benefits increase will mean
higher costs for employers, who just got hit with a 10 percent increase in
workers' comp insurance rates this month, lobbyists said.

Although the law includes cost-containment provisions, businesses are
doubtful. "We're very skeptical how that will materialize," said Allan
Zaremberg, president of the California Chamber of Commerce. "That was a big
loss."

The family leave law won't add to companies' financial burden -- the leave
is to be financed by a payroll tax on workers -but it will strain firms'
ability to manage their work force by providing additional incentive for
employees to take time off.

"This family leave law -- that hurts little companies like ours," said
Sharon Durst, owner of a 22-employee plastics factory in West Sacramento. "I
can see why businesses are not coming here."

Zaremberg said the family leave law gives skeptical out-of-state business
owners another reason to avoid California.

"We're the only one in the country (with paid family leave), and that's
never a good position to be in," he said.

Davis' defenders look at it differently. Raising workers' comp benefits and
paying employees for family leave actually enhance the business climate,
Hatamiya said, by ensuring that California workers are "the healthiest and
most productive in the world."

And the governor has continued to side with business interests on some
issues, as when his stated opposition to a consumer privacy bill helped kill
the idea in the Legislature. The bill would have placed strict limits on
companies selling consumers' data to other financial institution.

"There are issues where many of us have faulted him for being too close to
business," said Lenny Goldberg, a lobbyist for consumer groups.


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