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To: jlallen who wrote (146399)	5/19/2001 9:26:15 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

JL, When suppliers quit delivering electricity due to non-payment, that is a supply problem. It has nothing to do with the oil or coal supply. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - State investigators have found evidence that ``a cartel'' of power companies closed plants for unnecessary maintenance in order to inflate prices, the head of California's Public Utilities Commission said in an interview published Friday in the Los Angeles Times. ``There are instances where plants could have produced, and they chose not to,'' Lynch said. ``And it is clear that there are instances that plants, when called to produce, chose not to produce,'' even when they were obligated to do so under special contracts with the state and utility companies, she said. siliconvalley.com