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...shifts in market forces beyond the company's control. By the spring of 1986, world oil prices had dropped below $15 per bbl. The impetus to seek out alternative fuels withered. Florida Power & Light cut a deal with surrounding Southern utilities to buy inexpensive power from a regional grid; it successfully completed construction of a nuclear plant and signed an enticing deal to buy cheap oil from Venezuela...
...always be grid-connected," Aaron said. Joel, a carpenter from Somerville, disagreed. "We will be as long as we let the big corporations control us. But there is no reason, no reason whatsoever, that we can't be energy independent. The technology is out there, they are just keeping it from...
...solar movement attracts all types, but it attracts some types more than others. Supporters of Jerry Brown, for example. There must be some high school physics teachers and corporate executives wedded to the technology, but I haven't met any. Solar energy represents, for one thing, freedom from the grid. Solar heating? Good-bye ConGas. Solar car? Adios Texaco. Photovoltaics? Nice knowing you, Northeast Utilities...
...Grid lock on the march route occurred again infront of the rear entrance to the White House,where marchers stopped to send a few messages tothe President...
...question: What if America's trade deficit with Japan is a permanent condition and cannot be eliminated through pressure to open up Japanese markets or short-term investments in domestic competitiveness? The Democrats -- aside from Brown, who rarely mentions Japan in his different- drummer campaign -- fit on a neat grid from hawk to dove in their strategies for meeting the Japanese challenge...