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| | Liberalization and price of electricity in Italy |
 | | In the past years a wide belief was spread throughout Italy and also in Europe, on the possibility that the completion of the liberalization and privatization process of the energy sector would allow the reduction of the energy bills. |
 | | It is worthwhile to remember that after the 1973 oil crisis (Kippur war), all the others industrial nations, but not Italy, have substituted oil with nuclear or coal in electricity generation, France from 45% to 2%, Germany from 23% to 1.5%, Sweden from 19% to 3%, Belgium from 78% to 15%. |
 | | USA President Gorge W. Bush, did not loose his time when announcing on May 16th 2002 at the Convention Centre in St Paul, Minnesota, the new US Energy Plan, based on the realization in the next 20 years of 1300 or perhaps 1900 new power stations based on coal and nuclear energy for electricity generation. |
| www.ecolo.org /documents/documents_in_english/liberalization_cost_italy.htm (932 words) |
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