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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Selectric II who wrote (14290)6/5/2004 10:21:14 PM
From: Doug R  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
Do you think kennyboy was greedily wringing his hands in utter glee with this statement in the presentation;

"Electricity outages already have our most populous state in a vice and are threatening to spread from California to other parts of the country."

enron's energy traders certainly were.

Would it have been "nucking futs" to think enron's energy traders were at the heart of California's "crisis" before recent transcripts were made public?

"We get politicians who want to go out and blame somebody and allege there is some kind of conspiracy," Vice President Dick Cheney warned firmly on "Meet the Press" in May 2001, "whether it's the oil companies or whoever it might be, instead of dealing with the real issues."

At the time, Cheney knew that it couldn't be the fault of the energy companies because he'd spent the entire spring meeting with them in planning the new Bush administration energy strategy, including six meetings with Enron head Ken Lay. So California was just going to have to take what was coming to it, meaning a summer of blackouts, and nobody should think there would be much to gain from conservation, which Cheney sneered at as a "private virtue" that would have no effect on California's problems.

Actually, California did avoid blackouts that summer, and conservation did have something to do with it. And just a little while later, the feds discovered that there had indeed been "some kind of conspiracy."

you may go now.
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