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During the California energy crisis in 2001, the Northwest’s aluminum smelters found that they could make more money by selling their electricity to California than by using it to produce aluminum. So they shut down. And most have remained shuttered since. One consequence is that, according to the US Energy Information Administration, the Northwest states […]http://www.sightline.org/wp-content/images/legacy/blog_energy.jpg