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Politics : IMPEACH GRAY DAVIS! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (138)	1/11/2003 10:11:32 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1641

NG prices went up between 50% and 500% during the energy crisis. One month they charged me $25 just to keep my pilot light lit. I never even used the gas. I was furious. Knew it was a ripoff and turns out I was right. And now they blame Davis. As if he could have stopped it. Anything he could have done he would have. But he didn't yet have proof the energy crisis was a phonyh concoction. Didn't get the evidence until after the crime and he'd cut those lousy energy deals out of desperation. I remember listening to a C-SPAN type debate on it at the time. The energy companies had these "experts" telling Davis ther was nothing he could do but pass it on to the consumers. Would have ruined our economy. Nobody stood up and stated that the fix was in and the crooks were in charge, that the "experts" themselves were the crooks. It was really sad and infuriating. Davis had only two choices, and he took the one which was the least harmful at the time. Either way though the ripoff succeeded.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (138)	1/11/2003 11:54:28 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1641

I'll give you 117%. In Jan 2000 the price was $6.32- -the low. In March 2001 it was $13.73- -the high. There's another thing to remember here: that high was in the winter when people burn more gas. So it is possible that a 5X increase in COST to the consumer could occur in a year measuring from summer to winter. But the reference was to price, not cost. Also, electricity prices are different. This gives year-to-year data. Best I could find. energy.ca.gov No units in that data. This gives signs of a large increase in electricity cost: solarbuzz.com Gotta go.