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Non-Tech : The ENRON Scandal -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (2423)	2/5/2002 12:39:15 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5185

As citizens, about our only recourse is to contact our congressional delegation. But inasmuch as your Senators Maria Cantwell and Patt Murray are already hard at work on this, as is Rep. Inslee, there is little more that you can do. BPA is headquartered in Portland and is an impenetrable bureaucracy that has become as secretive and unaccountable as many other supposedly public entities like the California Independent System Operator or the Ca Dept. of Water Resources. You might consider approaching the Washington PUC, but I don't believe that they have any jurisdiction whatsoever over BPA. FERC may have some jurisdiction. I'm not to clear on the chain of command up from BPA. Eventually the trail leads to the White House, and as you might expect, the Bushistas will not raise a finger to aid the consumers or the states. They only want to pay off their bribers, the IPPs and power marketers who continue to distort markets in order to rip off the consumer. All with the blessings of our President. Once people on the West Coast wake up to this fact, they are going to be much less willing to give Shrub the benefit of the doubt on his ambiguous foreign adventures. And they for sure will understand Dubya is out to screw them domestically. It's not just for Laura any more.