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Pastimes : The California Energy Crisis - Information & Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gamesmistress who wrote (309)	5/18/2001 1:51:28 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 1715

Hi Gina, The consumer and his/her advocates have essentially been checkmated in the California energy game. I see no indications that this will change. One hint of what is going on was my follow-up of the Sacratomato Bee article that deepenergyfella posted upstream. I read it, and then followed up with a reading of the discussion thread that the Bee hosts. On the one hand, you had your pie in the sky "alternate" energy types, and on the other hand, the wacko right-wingnuts who saw any attempt by the government to do anything at all as a Communist conspiracy. No one on the thread was saying the sensible thing. That is, LAWPD is not broken, nor are the public utilities of the South Bay. This fiasco is strictly in the areas controlled by the IOUs, the investor owned utilities. The system is broken, and we have a perfectly clear example of how to fix it. We won't do so because of politics, of course, which is exactly how the mess was created in the first place. If Davis had any cojones at all, he'd seize Reliant's assets and end this fiasco. I'll assure you that the rest of the cabal, including Dynegy, Williams, Mirant and Duke would get a clue in about a nanosecond that the game is over. JM2C, Ray :)