RE:RE:RE:RE:Brutal day If ALA was a customer your concern might be valid however they are not a
customer which is buying but a company who is selling a commodity to customers.
In this sense I think they are in the same boat as all utilities. To maintain their
profit margins, they will have to go to the Regulators and ask for price hikes.
ALA however, has no such impediment when it comes to their Asian customers.
They will simply renegotiate their Asian contracts to maintain theri profit margins
and pass their costs on.
So at the end of the day, ALA will not require a 6.5% growth rate to keep pace
with inflation IMO. If they do end up struggling which I very much doubt, there
is always the sell button but I have no intention of doing that quite yet.