Those plants have gotten to be very profitable, and, indeed, if you're going to buy them back, you probably would need to pay a premium.

I'm taking care of the rest of it, ... We are building more plants and we are conserving, but prices under the law we passed in 1996 are exclusively a matter for the federal government to resolve -- and they've dropped the ball big time.

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.