Of course, these gasoline savings imply an increase in electricity consumption for charging the batteries of electric vehicles.
Last May the agency allowed a 10percentt increase in electricity prices.
TS I think we're going to see quite an increase in electricity solutions.
It forecast an annual increase in electricity demand of less than 6% in 2001-05.
Perhaps Ahmadian paid the price of raising the spectre of a five-fold increase in electricity prices.
Utah's governor, Michael O. Leavitt, blamed California's "disastrous deregulation scheme" for an 11percentt increase in electricity rates that a major utility is proposing in his state.
The protests started as an objection to an increase in electricity tariffs and grew into more widespread criticism of the authoritarian government.
Several California utilities have warned that they face severe financial problems because of the increase in electricity prices, and those economic forces have clearly already spread north.
When a similar target was modelled on the basis of Labor's previous scheme, it would have required a very substantial increase in electricity prices".
The increase in electricity capacity over the past five years was only 57% of its targeted level, so power cuts have worsened.
But both are more expensive than fossil-fuel plants, and are therefore likely to lead to an increase in electricity prices.The timing of all this looks especially bad.
