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To: Quincy who wrote (1495)	10/9/2002 3:17:53 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1715

SAVE AMERICA Quincy, I'm going to get this on every door and windshield in our tri-county area before the elections. Please do the same: <COPY> BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE HAS DEMOCRACY BEEN LOST? Citizen, You are being asked to vote. Please do. But please consider this. Our great nation is at risk. We were the victims of a judicial coup d'etat in 2000 and we are now suffering the consequences. We have an out-of-control Mal-administration in Washington that is destroying the economy, is hell-bent on wasting your tax dollars to pay for an imperialistic adventure that taxes you and rewards some remote and unaccountable oil corporations, and creates a new generation of soldier/victims of bad decisions by the War Rackets Department that never takes care of its soldiers. What you really need to think about is who are the patriots in our country. If you are smart, you will agree with many of us that your vote for any Republican this election is your vote to willingly turn yourself into a prisoner of George Bush's Police State. Do not surrender your country to a criminal conspiracy! Do not vote for any Republican this year! Committee for a Free Nation! Not In Our Name Paid For by the Patriots at nion_bend_oregon@yahoo.com

To: Quincy who wrote (1495)	10/9/2002 11:36:51 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1715

Quincy, I believe that in 1993, the Congress passed a bill requiring that the wholesale electric power markets be deregulated. The FERC was given the responsibility to insure that the law be carried out. California fashioned a deregulation bill (which passed without a dissenting vote in both Houses), the FERC accepted the plan, and the rest is history. One reason for the allure of lower energy prices (promised by deregulation) was that CA had significantly higher electricity prices than most of its neighbors. Large commercial and industrial users of electricity, argued that they were operating at a significant disadvantage to competitors in neighboring states (with not only lower tax structures, but lower electricity prices).